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...toughest moments of her career, and Dee Mellor was about to relive it one recent afternoon, this time in front of an audience--a group of rising stars at General Electric. Mellor, 45, runs the global supply-chain operations for GE's huge Medical Systems unit, and last year she had to decide where to move the manufacturing of a crucial component for the C.T. scanners used in hospitals. In India, she explained, GE had a proven team and facility and could reap an immediate return. China would require more investment, but it offered access to a pool...
This is the kind of logistical puzzle that gets Mellor up at 4:30 every morning and ready by 6 for conference calls with GE Medical sites in France, Israel and Japan. Trained as an engineer, Mellor has spent nearly all of her career in manufacturing operations. "I like to see how things are made," she says simply. For GE, her skills are critical. CEO Jeff Immelt came to his position from GE Medical and has singled out the division--with $9.2 billion in sales this year--as a key source of growth. On-time, on-spec, on-budget delivery...
...brothers is a fighter pilot in the U.S. Air Force. She credits her parents with encouraging her love of math and science. Growing up with a sister and three brothers in Worcester, Mass., also prepared her for GE's famously intense managers. "My brothers would push me hard, Mellor says. "I had to hold...
...employee aircraft-engine parts plant in Wilmington, N.C. At 40, she led the integration into GE of Greenwich Aviation Services, a $1.6 billion company that the larger firm had just acquired. Two years ago, Immelt and his successor at GE Medical, Joe Hogan, persuaded Mellor to move her family to the division's suburban Milwaukee, Wis., headquarters...