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...Palmisano has the easy, boyish grin and hearty laugh of the consummate salesman he has been for much of his 30-year career at IBM. He can seem quite a contrast to his predecessor as CEO, Lou Gerstner, a notoriously gruff, prickly outsider responsible for one of the greatest turnarounds in corporate history. But nearly a year after taking over the reins amid a lingering slump in corporate spending on technology, Palmisano, 51, has shown that he has sharp teeth behind that smile...
...dynamo--a firm that, rather than just selling computers and software, can persuade FORTUNE 500 clients to let it provide all their technology needs, from support staff to data storage. Over just the past half-year, Palmisano has spent $3.5 billion for the consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers, which gave IBM the people and contacts to turbocharge its services business, and has paid $2 billion for Rational Software, which provided new software-development tools. He agreed to sell IBM's money-losing hard-drive business to Hitachi. And he's still working his magic on clients: J.P. Morgan Chase just agreed...
During the days, the students will be divided into two age groups to take specially designed classes, from Harvard’s top professors—including a lectures by University President and economist Lawrence H. Summers, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger Porter, W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis Gates Jr. and chemistry demonstrations from Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach...
Long before IBM had established much credibility as an objective adviser, Rometty had created a lucrative consulting division for the insurance sector. More recently, she helped land a $4 billion, seven-year deal with American Express, which will rely on IBM to provide IT on a pay-as-you-go "utility" basis. She has also been busy trying to help close another $5 billion outsourcing deal with J.P. Morgan Chase. "She has a great ability to gain the confidence of executives, including CEOs," says her boss, Doug Elix, head of Global Services. Rometty is already winning admirers...
...work in shifts and make trade-offs, you can't get out of the house in the morning." Her father remortgaged the house to send her to the University of Chicago. A part-time job at the university hospital began a love affair with medicine, and an IBM internship drew her to business...