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...manager extraordinaire Jack Welch, chair and CEO of General Electric (GE) and Harvard Business School's Class Day speaker this year...
...people laughed at me when I said, 'There are two great leaders in the 20th century. One is Alfred Sloane [of General Motors] and the one that will really be remembered is Jack Welch,'" says Noel M. Tichy, a GE observer and University of Michigan management professor...
...Welch joined GE as a junior engineer in 1960 but quit after a year, tired of GE's bureaucracy, to head to International Minerals & Chemicals in Skokie, Ill. If not for the intervention of a superior who was impressed with the young Welch, the futures of GE and Welch might have looked very different...
...satisfied knowing that he's one of the few Internet entrepreneurs who rode the elevator to the penthouse and got off before it plunged earthward. That's not bad for a kid from the working-class south Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. Davis learned the basics as a salesman at GE and later at the now defunct office-automation pioneer Wang Labs--one of the hottest companies of its time before being blown away by DEC and others. In 1995 he was brought in by a fledgling venture-capital company, CMGI, to run a search-engine operation called Lycos (derived...
...lack the single-mindedness that regulation may bring, but they have been making ever more economical cars. Ford and GM are dueling it out over whose emissions are lower and whose suvs will get more mileage. Toyota and Honda are spending billions on hybrid engine cars, while companies like GE and Whirlpool are developing more efficient low-BTU mousetraps, like dishwashers that can be programmed to click on in the middle of the night. A few bones thrown its way, and business would surely do more...