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Virginia Rometty Selected As Next CEO of IBM
itwbennett writes "IBM will start the new year with a new CEO. Virginia (Ginni) Rometty, who built up IBM Global Services, will be the company's first female CEO."
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I thought IBM purely consisted of gay successful men. That's how their songs put it...
Can't wait to see her welcoming email! Which should arrive in the next 6 weeks or so, when her copy of Lotus Notes finally finishes starting up.
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Here we are celebrating another newly minted female CEO of a powerhouse corporation. Meanwhile, with the other side of our mouths, we're constantly bemoaning the fact that most Fortune 500 CEOs are greedy parasites, not to mention the large minority who seem to be sociopaths (and not in a figurative way, either).
It reminds me of that small number of feminists who seem to view sexual liberation not in terms of respect, mature dialogue, and winning their freedom from chauvanism, but merely as the freedom for women to be as sex-crazed and/or misandropic as some men are chauvanist and misogynistic.
Perhaps we shouldn't be so proud of women breaking into a job dominated by assholes? Are we assuming that women, unlike the men with whom they successfully competed to get these jobs, will suddenly be nice people when they're the ones on top? I try to understand when people say the pendulum is still swinging, that women need to make further explicit gains before we can just call it all equal, but I still wish we could reserve admiration and outright celebration for simply people who do good things, rather than continuing to break it out into Men and Women.
At some point the lauding of the "first female" this and the constant keeping of score has to stop if you want to say you achieved real equality.
she'll end up at HP too if she turns out to be mediocre...
Congratulations to Virginia Rometty on her promotion. The glass ceiling isn't shattered yet, but it's cracking.
Is she going to be getting a 25:1 Canadian or Euro style pay package, or is she taking the hundreds to one ratio of many US executives that people are complaining about? The article doesn't say.
IBM is a great place to work or contract. I really enjoyed the time I spent working on a project with them.
I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
Not really.
It has been very volatile lately, going up and down several dollars for no real reason.
I am on calls 2 or 3 times a month where she is also on the call. She seems well liked by the technical side of the house and is very approachable.
Won't catch me calling her Ginnie, I stick to ma'am and Sir for VP's and above if we are on the clock.
Better her than some other female execs we have.
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IBM Closing price on Sept 23: $169.16
IBM Closing price on Oct 25: $180.36
I am not sure where the 'significant dip' comes from.
That was just one of the GSD failures. There was the Texas Data Center fiasco, which is now being re-bid.
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/2240031466/Texas-rebids-IBM-data-center-consolidation-project
I'm sorry but IBM GSD is full of incompetent buffoons and making Ms. Rometty CEO will drive IBM into the ground. I would sell your stock immediately.
Harrison's Postulate - "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"
And if David Kappos' recent move is any indication, her next big step is clear: head up the US Patent and Trademark Office when Kappos leaves. I'm guessing that IBM would love this move because there she can better serve IBM's interests against those of the public. Kappos, current USPTO Director, was former IBM vice president and assistant general counsel of "intellectual property" law. IBM holds the most patents. First-to-file undoubtedly helps large firms like IBM because large firms hire lots of lawyers to file all sorts of patent applications. The more patents IBM holds, the more IBM can cross-license their way out of any threatened patent litigation by threatening countersuit and then negotiating a patent license.
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be the next Gerstner. I just realized that she was fundamental to the offshoring of the company and the selling of the divisions as much as Palmisano. I predict that IBM is the next ATT and watson will be the next Bell Labs. Gutted for short sales in the market place.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
She headed IBM Global Business Services (GBS, sometimes referred to as IBM Global Services or plain services). It has little to do with GSD or the data center fiasco. I wouldnt start selling or shorting stock yet
More on topic, this was more or less expected. The GBS division has become the cash cow, and has grown tremendously in the last 5-7 years.
>no technical knowledge.
She started as an engineer and rose through the ranks. Promoted from within. A rarity.
Straight off you assume she's another Carly or Meg. I think you should take your stereotypes and shove them squarely up your arse.
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Stereotypes exist for a reason, but I certainly haven't given her a chance, so point taken.
99% of all male CEOs are fat old guys with multiple chins. Is there a need to evaluate them?
When we have had enough female CEOs, pehaps people will stop commenting on how old and unattractive they are too.
Her college degree was tech, and she appears competent. What concerns me is she said "I deserve it", which is a very bad attitude.
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