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Mar 3, 2020 · The late Jack Welch CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001, probably isn’t the ideal model for 21st-century executives. However, three aspects of his leadership remain relevant today. First ...
John F. Welch, Jr., chairman and CEO of General Electric, leads one of the world’s largest corporations. It is a very different corporation from the one he inherited in 1981. GE is now built ...
Oct 29, 2010 · Jack Welch, a humble chemical engineer, tells us in his memoir why he was able to make strategic decisions all across GE’s portfolio, from nuclear power to the nightly news. The essential ...
Sep 9, 2015 · Jack Welch’s Approach to Breaking Down Silos Still Works. by. Ron Ashkenas. September 09, 2015. Working across organizational boundaries was a new way of thinking 25 years ago —one that was ...
Jan 26, 2015 · GE’s Culture Challenge After Welch and Immelt. by. Raghu Krishnamoorthy. January 26, 2015. Save. RK. Raghu Krishnamoorthy is the Senior Fellow and Director of the University of Pennsylvania’s ...
Describes the work of Jack Welch as CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 1992, focusing particularly on his transformation of the company's portfolio through extensive dispositions and acquisitions and the company's culture through a mandated process called "work out." To a considerable extent, the case tells the story in Welch's own words ...
Reprint: R0401J In the winter of 2000, at the height of the dot-com boom, business leaders posed for the covers of Time, BusinessWeek, and the Economist with the aplomb and confidence of rock stars.
Apr 28, 1999 · Product Description. GE is faced with Jack Welch's impending retirement and whether anyone can sustain the blistering pace of change and growth characteristic of the Welch era. After briefly describing GE's heritage and Welch's transformation of the company's business portfolio of the 1980s, the case chronicles Welch's revitalization ...
Companies are replacing vertical hierarchies with horizontal networks; linking together traditional functions through interfunctional teams; and forming strategic alliances with suppliers ...
A version of this article appeared in the February 2002 issue of Harvard Business Review. In recent months, Jack Welch’s life and legacy have literally been an open book. Here, the world’s ...