When he accepted the role of chair and CEO of IBM in 1993, he became the first outsider ever to lead it. At that moment, IBM was deep in crisis. Once the world’s largest computer maker whose mainframes powered financial systems, corporations, and governments alike, it was losing billions of dollars and market share to nimble competitors and facing calls to break the company apart.
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