How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 18, 2012
He was comfortable making smart bets to position IBM for decades-long growth, such as creating the Emerging Business Organization to incubate new businesses and shield them from P&L pressures. In 2009 he called off the $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in part due to Sun's egregious golden parachutes. Directness.
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