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- Subject: Akers removal from IBM
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.093816.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 13:38:16 GMT
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- What is the significance in the removal of Akers as IBM's CEO?
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- Is this just a symbolic action -- signifying to shareholders that IBM is really
- committed to change?
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- For just how much of IBM's reluctance to modify do _you_ believe Akers was
- responsible?
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- What effect do _you_ forsee this having on investor confidence and share price?
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- I feel that in a way IBM is firing the coach after a really tough season. It
- may not be entirely his fault, but someone has got to be blamed and "punished."
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- I don't know if I can accept that he was the principle element in IBM's
- sluggish response to a rapidly changing market. I will be very interested to
- see just who they pick to head up the aging giant (any guesses?). I hope to
- see further commitment to real change (starting to sound like a Clinton speech,
- huh?), instead of doing the same old thing with the same people and hoping for
- different results.
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- Let's hear it. . .
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