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- <text id=93TT1351>
- <title>
- Apr. 05, 1993: Comes a Cookie Man
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Apr. 05, 1993 The Generation That Forgot God
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 18
- BUSINESS
- Comes a Cookie Man
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>IBM's new boss is used to selling a wholly different kind of
- chip
- </p>
- <p> Hanging out a "help wanted" sign for a new chief executive
- officer at a company like International Business Machines should
- have brought a long line of eager job seekers. It did not.
- Instead many chief executives, including Apple Computer's John
- Sculley and Motorola's George Fisher, went out of their way to
- avoid being drafted. The Big Blue board eventually settled on
- Louis Gerstner, chairman of RJR Nabisco, although he has
- absolutely no computer-industry experience. Gerstner's main
- qualification is his ability to turn companies around by cutting
- costs, but he will have his work cut out for him at IBM, which
- has lost $7.8 billion in the past two years and cut 100,000 jobs
- since 1985. As the first non-IBMer ever to head the company,
- Gerstner will have to win over IBM's shell-shocked work force,
- which fears even more job cuts.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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