At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit - Rilegato

O'Boyle, Thomas F.

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ISBN 10: 0679421327 ISBN 13: 9780679421320

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1999

Riassunto

A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal offers a critical account of the leadership of General Electric's Chief Executive Officer, Jack Welch, illustrating Welch's ruthless but successful "downsizing" and GE's questionable practices. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

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L'autore:

Thomas F. O'Boyle has been writing about business and management issues since 1979. He covered U.S., European, and Asian industrial corporations for eleven years at the Wall Street Journal. He was named business editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 1994, where he is currently an assistant managing editor. He lives with his wife and three children near Pittsburgh.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

the CEO of General Electric and one of the most renowned figures in today's business world, has been seen by some as the model corporate leader and by others as the quintessential unmitigated pursuer of profit. In this searching, revealing, and riveting book, the man and his methods, and the legendary company he runs, are brilliantly examined.

In the 1980s Welch built GE into the prototypical global company. In the process, he created immeasurable wealth. GE under Welch is the world's most profitable and most valuable company--twenty-two consecutive years of dividend increases; a near-perfect progression of ever-higher profits; and a 1,155 percent increase in the value of its shares between 1982 and 1997, the year GE became the first corporation to be valued at more than $200 billion. By July 1998 its shares had risen in value another $100 billion.

As we watch Welch's spectacular rise through the ranks at GE, we see his impetuousness, his aggressiveness, his lightning strikes

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679421327
• ISBN 13: 9780679421320
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 449