<div id="readability-page-1"><div>By Colin Kellaher Louis Gerstner, the former International Business Machines chairman and chief executive who engineered a turnaround at the then-struggling computer giant in the 1990s, has died at age 83. Gerstner, who led IBM from 1993 to 2002, died Saturday, according to the Armonk, N.Y., company. Gerstner joined IBM from RJR Nabisco in 1993 to rescue the company at a time when it was reporting multibillion-dollar annual losses and oversaw a regimen of job cuts and plant closings as he slashed the company's operating expenses and worked to return it to its strengths. During his time at the helm, IBM reported double-digit annual earnings growth and saw a more than eightfold surge in its stock price. &#34;Lou arrived at IBM at a moment when the company's future was genuinely uncertain,&#34; IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna said in an email to employees on Sunday. &#34;The industry was changing rapidly, our business was under pressure, and there was serious debate about whether IBM should even remain whole. His leadership during that period reshaped the company. Not by looking backward, but by focusing relentlessly on what our clients would need next.&#34; Gerstner retired from IBM in 2022 and served as chairman of private-equity firm Carlyle Group from 2003 until 2008. Write to Colin Kellaher at colin.kellaher@wsj.com (END) Dow Jones Newswires12-29-25 0649ET</div></div>

IBM 前董事长兼首席执行官路易斯·盖斯纳（Louis Gerstner）于 83 岁时去世。他在 1993 年至 2002 年期间领导 IBM，在公司面临重大亏损的时期成功扭转局面。在他的领导下，IBM 实现了两位数的盈利增长和股价八倍的增长。盖斯纳对未来客户需求的关注重塑了公司，他于 2022 年退休，此前曾在 2003 年至 2008 年期间担任凯雷集团（Carlyle Group）董事长

曾在 1990 年代拯救 IBM 的路易斯·格斯特纳去世，享年 83 岁