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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2003 he launched an online, interactive "values jam" involving all employees for 72 hours to determine what IBM's values should be. In 2009 he called off the $7 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems in part due to Sun's egregious golden parachutes. HP suffered from a progression of strategic missteps and failed leaders.