{"id":982371,"date":"2025-12-29T09:47:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982371"},"modified":"2025-12-29T09:57:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:27:16","slug":"louis-gerstner-ceo-credited-with-turning-around-ibm-dies-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/29\/louis-gerstner-ceo-credited-with-turning-around-ibm-dies-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Gerstner, CEO credited with turning around IBM, dies at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday. He was 83.<\/p>\n<p>IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna announced Gerstner\u2019s death in an email sent Sunday to its employees, but didn\u2019t provide a cause of death.<\/p>\n<p>Gerstner\u2019s nine-year tenure as chairman and CEO of the company known as \u201cBig Blue\u201d is often used as a case study in corporate leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louis Gerstner, who took over International Business Machines Corp. when it was on its deathbed and resuscitated it as a technology industry leader, died Saturday. He was 83. IBM chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna announced Gerstner\u2019s death in an email sent Sunday to its employees, but didn\u2019t provide a cause of death. Gerstner\u2019s nine-year tenure as chairman and CEO of the company known as \u201cBig Blue\u201d is often used as a case study in corporate leadership.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}