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- 22 Aug 2016
- News
The Future of GE
General Electric, now 124 years old, is looking to the future, CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) recently told Vanity Fair. When Immelt took the helm of GE in 2001, it was a diverse conglomerate. Now, Immelt said, “we’ve exited almost all of financial services. We’ve exited... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Jeffrey Immelt: How I Remade GE
“For the past 16 years GE has been undergoing the most consequential makeover in its history,” departing CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) writes in Harvard Business Review. “We were a classic conglomerate. Now people are calling us a 125-year-old start-up—we’re a digital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
broader economy. Prysm was retained recently by a large conglomerate to help design a crypto token, in a highly regulated jurisdiction. “They came to us and said, we need a token economic model that does the things we want to achieve and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
partnerships, values-driven leadership, fi duciary duties, and the blurring of lines between government and business. Three cases focus on issues encountered by Unilever—one of which examines how the multinational conglomerate deals with... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) wants to change just about everything at GE, from its image as a slow-moving corporate behemoth, to the focus of its core businesses, to the location of its corporate offices. In May, the company that made the first lightbulb, as well as... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
isolation. You have to look at the whole picture. What businesses should you be in? With the fallout from the conglomerate era fresh in people's minds, the prevailing wisdom is not to expand beyond your core business. People say, "Stick... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
with the ungainly conglomerates assembled in the 1960s and 1970s that provided a variety of seemingly mismatched products and services. And while many consultants and investors are seeking to extend this focused model into emerging... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
savings and loans. I compare this disaster to a Greek epic, in which RCA is lured away from its core capabilities by "Sirens" consisting of the business press, the academy, and Wall Street, for whom conglomerates were then the business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
start to finish,” he says. “That’s something I picked up from General Mills: We had to be able to have that kind of traceability and accountability to consumers.” That reputation attracted the attention of the luxury conglomerate LVMH,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
companies,” says Rogers. The Anglo-Dutch packaged-goods conglomerate Unilever had already bought Breyers. (It would buy Ben & Jerry’s in 2000.) Simultaneously, the Swiss food conglomerate Nestlé began to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
Vasella Illustration by Dennis Balogh Twenty years ago a young doctor with a hankering for business experience gave up his clinical practice in Bern, Switzerland, and moved to East Hanover, New Jersey, to try his hand at drug sales with the Swiss View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Khanna led a session titled "Entrepreneurship and the Asian Family Enterprise," which brought together three scions of top family corporations in Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Indonesia. Ronnie Chan, chairman of the successful Hong Kong property-based View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 04 May 2010
- News
The History of Beauty
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Paris, and gut-wrenching loss, all before Lewis shockingly commandeers a multibillion-dollar, multinational conglomerate and leads it with aplomb. You ’ll learn how she dealt with her husband’s untimely death at the age of 50 and how she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
firm.” “In developing economies, we have to reexamine the fundamental assumptions of what makes a good firm.” Realigning Priorities Other participants also remarked that the Asian economic crisis called for a reorientation of research priorities. Although the breakup... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
international divisions. “Goldman Sachs in New York is different from Goldman Sachs in Asia,” he observes, adding that the same is true for conglomerates operating in industries as different as pharmaceuticals and aircraft engines.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
chairman of the Tata Group, a $22 billion conglomerate with 93 companies operating in areas as diverse as IT and communications, steel, financial services, hotels, and consumer goods ranging from tea to china to automobiles. “There was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so one of the advantages of being in a conglomerate is you can see trends earlier, right? So if you go back to 2004 and 2005, I could see, like, energy efficiency in our appliance business. I could see fuel efficiency in our jet engine... View Details