several former executives have gone on to lead other large companies. CEO Jeff Immelt took the reins from the legendary Jack Welch just days before 9/11, and his tenure to date has been characterized by a stronger balance sheet, significant acquisition
NBC Universal, but it beat analysts' earnings estimates by a penny a share. The real story is that turn, from the Jack Welch GE that was heavily into finance and bought NBC, to a company whose biggest unit is GE Energy, a maker of gas turbines
Rising gas prices have knocked the starch out of a fairly robust economic recovery says Jack Welch . "I'm a little shaken about not knowing where this is going ... you can't have this jump and not think that it affects the pocketbook." Post your comment!
Yahoo's ( YHOO ) Scott Thompson taps his inner Jack Welch in a (unsurprisingly) leaked memo , telling employees Yahoo needs to focus on businesses where it has a competitive advantage
By Anthony Welch : One of my go-to stocks in the 1990's was General Electric ( GE ). With Jack Welch at the helm and the company firing on all cylinders, the company could seemingly do no wrong. In fact, GE and Cisco ( CSCO
everybody's nose, and that's General Electric. It's the company everybody loves to hate right now, because basically Jack Welch left when the stock was 40-45 times earnings, handed it over to Jeff Immelt and said have fun. And at 40 times earnings
systematically puts all the data in one place. And – for at least a couple of the former CEOs – including GE’s Jack Welch and IBM’s Louis Gerstner, this may be the first time that the full value of their golden parachutes has been tallied
My apologies if this has already been posted, but did not see it upon cursory glance. Worth weighing some, IMO: Jack Welch : "in my lifetime, Mitt Romney is the most qualified leader I've ever seen run for presidency of the united states
Amazon ( AMZN ) is the GE of the Internet age, claims Venkatesh Rao in a lengthy piece, and Jeff Bezos its Jack Welch . Unlike other tech giants, Amazon primarily owes its success not to technical or design brilliance, but to strategic vision
Nov 11 (Reuters) - Strayer University is buying the business management college founded by the legendary former chief executive of General Electric, Jack Welch , to expand its bouquet of MBA programs.