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...Jack Welch, the former General Electric chief....
...Yet there is a compact and fascinating account of the preceding period from GE’s founding under Thomas Edison in the late 19th century....
...The group, founded by Thomas Edison, was then a revered but bureaucratic manufacturer of fridges, lightbulbs, motors and wiring....
...One GE facility to make nacelles — the gearboxes for wind turbines — is in the works in Schenectady, New York, where the company’s roots date back 130 years to Thomas Edison....
...Courage Bagels, Silver Lake, LAKarla Welch, celebrity stylist“They serve Montreal-style bagels, which are the best in all the land....
...Welch turned it into a conglomerate and told his management story instead....
...A recent book by Thomas Gryta and Tedd Mann gives a flavour of life in the GE boardroom: One newcomer to the board under Welch was surprised by the CEO’s command of the board room and the sparse debate...
...Peter Breen, vice-president and senior counsel for the Thomas More Society, a conservative public interest law firm, condemns the fact that Illinois has turned itself into “the abortion capital of America...
...Charlie Munger, the sage of Omaha’s right-hand man, told his boss that in Wang they had found a mix of Jack Welch, the legendary General Electric boss, and Thomas Edison....
...Buffett’s right-hand man, Charlie Munger, described the Chinese businessman as a mix between Thomas Edison and former General Electric chair Jack Welch....
...former General Electric chair Jack Welch....
...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....
...Yet in this study of the Immelt era and its aftermath, Wall Street Journal reporters Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann make the case that whatever hand Welch dealt in 2001, by the time Immelt stepped down in 2017...
...As head of General Electric from 1981 to 2001, he took the company founded by Thomas Edison a century before and brutally transformed it into the biggest US company by market value....
...Via the FT: Welch earned a reputation for producing uncannily predictable growth in earnings and dividends for GE’s shareholders as he reshaped a company founded by Thomas Edison through cost-cutting, dealmaking...
...Welch earned a reputation for producing uncannily predictable growth in earnings and dividends for GE’s shareholders as he reshaped a company founded by Thomas Edison through cost-cutting, dealmaking, borrowing...
...This is called Fowler Welch and accounts for about 10 per cent of Dart’s turnover. In 2003 Jet2 carried its first passengers from Leeds Bradford airport to Amsterdam....
...He transformed a business founded by Thomas Edison into America’s most valuable company over 20 years at the helm of the industrial conglomerate....
...When Thomas Edison’s General Electric was at its most innovative in the late 19th and early 20th century, manager and proprietor were one and the same....
...His successor is Larry Culp, the first outsider to be made chairman and chief executive of GE in the 126 years since it was co-founded by Thomas Edison....
...The company’s relationship with JPMorgan runs deepest, dating back to 1892 when John Pierpont Morgan arranged the merger of Thomas-Houston International Electric and Edison General Electric....
...Statements from Mr Culp and from Thomas Horton, the former chairman of American Airlines who is the new lead independent director, made it clear that they intended to stick with that plan....
...The long history of General Electric, descendant of Thomas Edison’s eponymous Edison Electric Light Company, founded in 1878, is full of growth crises, followed by periods of restructuring....
...What does his abrupt departure tell us about the state of a company co-founded 126 years ago by Thomas Edison?...
...The “Great Man” theory that individuals make history happen, first popularised by Thomas Carlyle in the mid 19th century, has life in it yet....
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