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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
existing culture and adopt your predecessor's style can be irresistible. But as Jack Welch recognized when he became CEO of GE, it is often necessary to evolve a successful company's culture to prepare for a... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
another. When e-business burst on the scene, GE's CEO Jack Welch was impressed by the strategy adopted by the CEO of GE's Global Consumer Finance (GCF) division, who realized he was not up to speed in... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
little of the policy issues, product discussions, and even general news coming out of the tech world. That's my problem. I need to fix it by doing what Jack Welch asked all of his senior colleagues at GE to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
is for a third outcome: The DNI becomes the centralized provider of the leadership and infrastructure that allow the community to take decentralized yet coordinated action. That’s what we see in really effective private-sector firms, like what View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
understanding of the organization and its culture, and a good knowledge of its talent that "outsiders" have to accumulate over time, often with some difficulty. Exhibit A among "insider outsiders" is Jack View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
becomes the centralized provider of the leadership and infrastructure that allow the community to take decentralized yet coordinated action. That's what we see in really effective private-sector firms, like what Jack View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
single individual has achieved so much in such a short time," with "Microsoft's technology accelerating the world economy." Most influential business leader Bill Gates Jack Welch Henry Ford Alfred P. Sloan... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
goal, she said, is to give people a better sense of the variety out there. "If you read business books on leadership, you would see only white American men, literally, and probably the same ones over and over again," she added, citing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
today's managers are trying to implement third-generation strategies through second-generation organizations with first-generation management. In an earlier study we analyzed the evolution of CEO Jack Welch's thinking at General Electric... View Details
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Jack Welch emphasized that GE should support only the most profitable businesses in the company's portfolio, a logic that led Welch and GE to phase out GE's consumer... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and economic issues. I have a lot... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
She’s been a regular at the Super Bowl and the Olympics and has thrown out the first ball at Shea Stadium three times (when the Mets were winning!). She’s also attended the Oscars and the Golden Globe Awards. While she avoids name-dropping, inevitably names do drop... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
category of Jack Welch and Bernie Marcus, not running a major company anymore. So that's my business report now from the front lines. Morrell: Diane, thank you so much for doing this today. I really... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
that might surprise HBS alumni about you? I spend some of my time on weekends doing simple chores. It’s amazing how much thinking you can get done while power-washing a fence. — SY Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) IMMELT When he succeeded Jack View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
his family. Only at the end of his life did he admit those costs. It is a little like Jack Welch admitting that he should have spent more of those Saturday mornings with his family. Q: Many great German... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
today's government for the better. Hot Seat: What I Learned Leading a Great American Company By Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) with Amy Wallace Simon & Schuster In September 2001, Jeff Immelt replaced the most famous CEO in history, Jack Welch,... View Details