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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

They are innovating in ways that create virtuous circles for a generation or more." He also forced partners and distributors to commit in writing to uphold IBM's strict ethical standards. In 2009 he called off the $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in part due to Sun's egregious golden parachutes.