IBM - The Biggest Loss
Time: Thursday Apr 1, 1993
Place: U.S.
Details: In 1993 IBM posted an US$8 billion loss – at the time the biggest in American corporate history. Lou Gerstner was hired as CEO from RJR Nabisco to turn the company around, on 1 April 1993.
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