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...playing in the Super Bowl--"the last two minutes for two years." He lobbied Welch for the chance to run his own unit, then took GE's weakest business--making electricity-generation equipment--and quadrupled its sales. But Jeff Immelt, who was known for his polish and intellect and ran GE's cutting-edge medical-systems business, won the top job. The other contender, Jim McNerney at GE Aircraft Engines, entertained an offer from 3M before the race was even over. That's not Nardelli's style. "I was not going to be outside interviewing," he says. "I gave...
...Alter’s confidence about his life-long friend never waned. “I always knew that Mark would be successful at whatever he did because he combined such a powerful intellect with discipline and motivation and determination...
...myself as part of a generation that was able to marry intellect with food, to take it from just being a vocation to something that is highly respected,” Chase says...
...restless intellect and you can only channel so much of that into legal work, and he has found a terrific secondary outlet for it,” says George Andreou ’87, Begley’s editor at Alfred A. Knopf. “I don’t have a vision of Louis snoozing in a hammock on Memorial Day weekend...
John S. Kiernan ’76, Begley’s long-time associate, says that the senior partner’s presence around the office suggested a “formidable intellect...