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...In that sense, Welch aped Vladimir Lenin’s Bolshevik methods. Welch pioneered the political mass mailing list. He cultivated denizens of the business world....
...Immelt quietly sought help from Henry Paulson, the US Treasury secretary....
...believed in the potential of the company, based on belief in Wang, the BYD founder who Buffett’s right-hand man Charlie Munger described as a mix between Thomas Edison and former General Electric chair Jack Welch...
...The waiter arrives, not with food, but with the phone: “A Frances Welch?” Brown’s wife, a historian, is calling about his unsent column. He resumes the RNA sequencing....
...This included Lucy Kemp-Welch, a Royal Academician and renowned painter of horses who encouraged Agar’s abilities and first planted the idea of becoming a professional artist....
...In studying history, this lack of competition cannot be emphasised too strongly.” — Henry D Wolfe, Chicago, Illinois...
...Spot prices for oil and gas are both very low, with front-month West Texas Intermediate crude settling at $20.31 a barrel on Wednesday and benchmark Henry Hub natural gas falling to $1.587 per million British...
...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Moscow...
...Henry Paulson is right to point out the increased political risks that face business today (“We are living in an age of alarming risk”, November 7)....
...“Many of the [management methods] that became very widely popular started at GE,” says Henry Mintzberg, the veteran academic and writer....
...In New Power, out this week, Jeremy Heimans and Henry Timms acknowledge Ms Burke but add: “The movement felt ownerless — and this was the source of its strength.”...
...Guys like [former General Electric chief executive] Jack Welch. I like guys like Henry Kravis [the co-founder of KKR, the private equity group]....
...In the end, as a leader, you are always going to get a combination of two things: what you create and what you allow – Henry Cloud Whether you are an entry-level employee fresh from college or a chief executive...
...It has been hit by the slump in the price of US gas, from an average of $4.26 per million British Thermal Units for benchmark Henry Hub in 2014 to about $2.12 this week....
...Instead, he chose philosophy and his living room is full of piles of books by Aristotle and Søren Kierkegaard, rather than works by Jack Welch or Warren Buffett....
...The move also marks a decisive break from the model Mr Immelt inherited when he took over from Mr Welch in 2001....
...of Third Point, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo, Les Moonves of CBS, Brian Roberts of Comcast, David Rubenstein of Carlyle, Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook, and Jack Welch, formerly of GE....
...Not for him the Henry Fords or Andrew Carnegies....
...Sometimes this passion was connected to social justice, especially by a young teacher from an anti-apartheid South African background named Nick Welch, whose sincerity and intensity, of a kind not often...
...Pop music, once a working-class preserve, now has public school stars such as Florence Welch, Laura Marling and Marcus Mumford....
...When details of Jack Welch’s affair with a Harvard Business Review editor, later Mrs Welch III, emerged in 2001, they provoked prurient interest....
...Thorndike concedes that Welch, during whose tenure GE outperformed the S&P 500 index by 3.3 times, was “an undeniably great CEO”, but “wasn’t even in the same zip code as Henry Singleton”. Who?...
...Headhunters look for a hybrid of Jack Welch, Henry Kissinger and Gandhi. They are hard to find. One area that the headhunters ignore is the arts world. That is not so surprising....
...In 1914, Henry Ford introduced a daily wage of $5 so that his workers could afford to buy the cars they built....
...Guests including Henry Kissinger (an old family friend) and Silvio Berlusconi were treated to a five-metre-long cake covered with small chocolate replicas of the Fiat 500....
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