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...By the time Welch retired from GE in September 2001, GE Capital was contributing 40 per cent of GE’s earnings. That percentage would grow to 50 per cent under Welch’s chosen successor, Jeff Immelt....
...When Jeff Immelt took over from Jack Welch as chair and chief executive of General Electric in 2001, the aerospace to fridges and finance group was the most valuable, widely admired company in the world....
...Illumina spun off a new company, Grail, to develop the test, raising more than $2bn from investors including Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and the Chinese company Tencent....
...What separates people like Musk, Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison from the wealthy individuals you’ve never heard of?...
...“I don’t think anybody is going to say that Elon Musk is sweet,” Pfeffer says, “or that Jeff Bezos is sweet, or Steve Jobs was nice, or Jack Welch was going to be picked by anybody to be stranded on a desert...
...The experience led the then chief Jeff Immelt, the successor to Welch, to say that conglomerates worked well until markets turned, when their complexity became a liability....
...his successor, Jeff Immelt, who he blamed for the decline of GE....
...The process of trying to bring GE Capital’s risks under control began under Welch’s successor Jeff Immelt, who began a series of disposals including the $30bn sale of a speciality finance portfolio to Wells...
...Jeff Immelt insists he has not been tempted to have his GE tattoo removed, despite the despair felt by those most loyal to the conglomerate as its troubles mounted during and after his 16 years as chief...
...When the 2008 financial crisis struck, Welch’s successor Jeff Immelt relied on $130bn in bailout funds to survive....
...The company’s share price is trading at a fraction of where it was when Welch left the company in 2001 as Jeff Immelt, John Flannery and Culp, his three successors, faced the challenge of dismantling the...
...As Welch’s successor Jeff Immelt puts it in his new book, writes the FT’s Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, the theory was “don’t look at the elements that make up the Blob, just look at the results”....
...The talks were so secretive that Zaslav did not even hint about it to close friends such as CNN’s Jeff Zucker or Jeff Bewkes, the former Time Warner chief who met him days before it was announced....
...There has been a willingness to slim GE down, even going back to Jeff Immelt, who was running the business for 16-17 years after 9/11....
...He hands over to Jeff Bornstein, a “muscled, nicotine-gum-chomping, weightlifting, hard-driving” executive and former aide to Immelt, who had taken over as chief financial officer....
...There are candid snapshots of Jeff Bezos at work (one of the authors, Bryar, was Bezos’s chief of staff at one point)....
...Further to your editorial “Welch’s mixed legacy is a sign of changing times” (March 5): surely the lesson of General Electric’s extraordinary success under Jack Welch, and subsequent decline under Jeff Immelt...
...When the financial crisis hit, his ill-judged and poorly understood financial bets came back to haunt his successor, Jeff Immelt, undermining the House that Jack Built....
...Jeff Immelt, who won the three-way race to succeed Welch in 2001, wrote on LinkedIn that his predecessor was “ the best boss I have ever seen.”...
...ByteDance chief executive Zhang Yiming got his “always day one” motto from Jeff Bezos of Amazon and frequently cites Jack Welch’s book Winning....
...So goes Gillian Welch’s Everything Is Free: a eulogy for the bygone days, when music paid. For musicians like myself the song is a poignant one....
...Namerico Energy, a private equity-backed logistics company, has put on hold its proposed Pecos Trail pipeline that would have brought west Texas gas to the Gulf of Mexico, said Jeff Welch, president....
...When I interviewed Mr Welch on the eve of his departure in 2001, he told me “if Jeff Immelt doesn’t grow GE, Jack Welch will have failed because Jack Welch’s most important job over the last several years...
...I say that Jeff Bezos insists his underlings write out their ideas for that reason. “Well, I never thought I’d agree with him on anything.”...
...Jeff Immelt, Mr Welch’s successor, promoted him to run a 120,000-person operation, and by 2006 headhunters were telling Fortune magazine that he was “the complete package” and top of their list of CEO candidates...
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