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...GE has spent millions on a public-relations and lobbying campaign to nix the plan, and CEO Jack Welch even went to Whitman personally. The company insisted Tuesday that the dredging operation - the largest in U.S. history - would "do more harm than good," stirring up PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls, now safely buried under layers of sediment on the river bottom, and besides that would visit "decades of disruption" on area residents. And yet Whitman remained unmoved...
Running a big-time Wall Street firm is not like running a carmaker. GE wonderboss Jack Welch cried uncle shortly after acquiring Kidder Peabody in 1986, and the Solomonic Warren Buffett couldn't run fast enough from his interim job as chief of Salomon Brothers in 1992. So you can see why stumbling CSFB grabbed Mack, whose own record for running a clean ship is pretty much unblemished. Mack was even rumored to be on the short list to succeed Arthur Levitt as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's known for giving egocentric bankers--Quattrone while...
Harnessing the good, culling the bad: that's where things get dicey. Since the mid-'90s, a growing number of companies have looked to the success of Jack Welch with General Electric to guide them through this psychologically ambiguous terrain. GE's mandate from the top is that high performers--even prodigies--who unrepentantly trash company values are given the boot...
...rank in China's top-five grossing movies to date. Now the jumble-toothed, shorts-wearing, former stage designer is setting his sights on winning viewers outside China. Last month, he wrapped up the shooting of a black comedy called Big Shot's Funeral, which stars China's Ge You (known for To Live), Hong Kong's Rosamund Kwan (Once Upon a Time in China) and Hollywood's gravel-voiced perennial Donald Sutherland. Backed by the might of Columbia Pictures Film Production Asia, Big Shot will try to do a Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon without kung fu, swirling costumes...
...Will GE appeal...