Arvind Krishna
In July 1993, Lou Gerstner had been running IBM for three months and was already being asked where he planned to take the company. The situation was bad: IBM had lost more than US$8 billion in a single year, and its mainframe...
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Kelly Ortberg
In Renton, south of Seattle, Boeing has just increased 737 production from 42 to 47 aircraft a month, and the obvious question is: when will it reach 52? Ortberg avoids giv...
Christian Klein
In Walldorf, a city of about 15,000 people in southwestern Germany, Christian Klein has set himself a fairly concrete target. “If in five years 70% of the deals we close do not include artificial intelligence in a meaningful ...
Fernando Fernández
Fernández began by calculating production costs at Unilever’s Argentine subsidiary. Today, he makes decisions for a company whose products are used by 3.7 billion people every day. He separated the ice cream business, is ...
Tobias Meyer
The German engineer who runs the most international company in the world, with nearly 600,000 employees across more than 220 countries and territories, lived through a war that drove up fuel costs and knocked its Bahrain ...
Olivier Blum
Olivier Blum joined Schneider Electric at 22 and has never worked for another company. He runs in the mountains six days a week and says that many of his most important decisions ultimately fall into place there. But when he ...
Jensen Huang
At some point in 1974, at a boarding school in Kentucky, a ten-year-old boy was cleaning bathrooms every day. He had long hair, a strong Taiwanese accent and shared a room with a seventeen-year-old who was illiterate, covered...
Emiliano Kargieman
In August 2021, as the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, nearly all available Earth observation satellites had been assigned to American defense agencies. Satellites operated by an Argentine company helped fill that ga...
Mariana Schoua
She joined a recently privatized power generation company in Neuquén in 1994, shortly after graduating as an accountant. Dominion, Duke Energy, Orazul and Aconcagua Energía followed, but she remained. Her career reflects much...
Jane Fraser
Four years after promising to transform Citi, Jane Fraser returned to the bank’s investor day. The first question was whether its culture remained the same. The first perso...