Louis Gerstner, CEO Credited With Turning Around IBM, Dies at 83
Louis Gerstner in 1996.
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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’s death in an email sent Sunday to its employees, but didn’t provide a cause of death.