the company competitive, and almost defiantly announced, The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision. Who Says Elephants Can't Dance? tells the story of IBM's competitive and cultural transformation. In his own words, Gerstner offers a blow-by-blow account of his arrival at the company ...
He is Chairman of the Republican Liberty Caucus, a group that promotes libertarianism within the Republican Party and is Senior Politics Editor at Blogcritics online magazine and is the CEO of Scriptorium Fonts. Age: 65 Birthplace: Beirut, Lebanon Barry Finegold Lawyer Barry R. Finegold (March...
Icahn then aggressivelypurchases a significant position in the corporationand either calls for the election of an entirely new board of directors or thedivestitureof assets in order to deliver more value to shareholders. Icahn focuses publicly on CEO compensation, arguing that many top executives are ...
Bennett LeBow have used; The assertion that the era of the corporate raider is over, because funds are much more difficult to raise in the 1990s than they were in the previous decade; How RJR Nabisco CEO handles Icahn's attempts; The e...
Gerstner served for four years as chairman and chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco, Inc. This was preceded by an 11-year career at American Express Company, where he was president of the parent company and chairman and CEO of its largest subsidiary, American Express Travel Related Services ...
and it wanted to put itself on the map. Paine Webber says that it has since made money on bridge loans. But hardly on this one: Though much of the bridge loan was paid down, Paine Webber is today an unsecured Federated creditor owed $96 million. The $6.5 billion deal also included a...
of IBM from 1993 until March 2002. In January 2003 he assumed the position of chairman of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm located in Washington, DC. Prior to joining IBM, Mr. Gerstner served for four years as chairman and chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco, Inc. This...
sums up Lou Gerstner's historic business achievement, bringing IBM back from the brink of insolvency to lead the computer business once again.Offering a unique case study drawn from decades of experience at some of America's top companies -- McKinsey, American Express, RJR Nabisco -- Gerstner'...