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...As the former General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt famously remarked of the Chinese, before his company disavowed it: “I am not sure that in the end they want any of us to win or any of us to...
...Yet Welch’s reputation started to crumble almost as soon as he handed the reins of GE to his successor Jeffrey Immelt....
...“There was almost an Elon Musk hype that drove the stock,” recalled Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at Yale School of Management....
...Still, Immelt says it is not fair to blame Trian....
...Immelt and both of his successors have hacked away at it for some years, with current chief executive Larry Culp cutting the division’s assets from $86bn to $68bn since 2018....
...It was Jeffrey Immelt’s fate to follow Jack Welch — the 20th century’s highest-profile corporate boss — as chief executive of General Electric, the company that was for decades a bellwether for corporate...
...Around then, Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of GE, appears to have been overseeing just the kind of instant market gratification management effort that Mr Fink was condemning....
...Reading Andrew Hill’s excellent review of Lights Out, a book about Jeffrey Immelt’s time in charge of GE, one question comes to mind....
...His successor Jeffrey Immelt fought to stabilise the conglomerate....
...“Security” is one of the ways chief executives justify their corporate jet — or two corporate jets in the case of Jeffrey Immelt, the former General Electric boss, who occasionally took a spare plane with...
...Mr Immelt had identified software for industrial applications as a key part of the group’s future....
...At General Electric, Jack Welch remade the company but after he left in 2001, Jeffrey Immelt was forced to deal with the ticking time bomb created by the expansion into financial services....
...Similarly, many of GE’s structural difficulties date back to Jack Welch, who stepped down in 2001, and to Mr Flannery’s long-serving predecessor Jeffrey Immelt....
...John Flannery was handed the job of catching the falling knives from Mr Immelt’s era last year, and was duly carried out this week....
...Legendary JPMorgan banker Jimmy Lee, who died in 2015, held the connection with Mr Welch’s successor Jeffrey Immelt, who ran the company for 16 years....
...Mr Immelt issued a statement on Monday expressing confidence in the future of GE....
...The group responded by cutting $150m in operating costs and bringing in the former General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt as executive chairman. On Thursday Athenahealth said it would explore a sale....
...The same day, Mr Flannery, unravelling many of the purchases made by his immediate predecessor Jeffrey Immelt and by Mr Welch, announced he would spin off operations that generated more than 30 per cent...
...Jeff Immelt, who succeeded him, was not acclaimed in the same way but similarly stressed the value of the group’s central organisation, including the “GE store”: the research and development operations that...
...After his departure, speculation mounted about what Mr Immelt’s next act would be....
...But the sale of GE’s financial services operations was also acclaimed by analysts when Mr Immelt announced it in 2015....
...Mr Immelt announced his departure in June, and was succeeded by Mr Flannery on August 1....
...His successor, Jeff Immelt, poured money into oilfield services just before the bottom fell out of the fossil fuel economy....
...On Monday, the company said in a statement: Jeffrey R. Immelt retired as a director and Chairman of General Electric Company’s Board of Directors (the “GE Board”) in light of Mr....
...These were the latter years of Jack Welch’s tenure as chief executive and the early part of his successor Jeffrey Immelt’s term....
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