Bower, Joseph L. "Jack Welch General Electric-The People Factory at work: Picking My Successor at GE." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 304-808, January 2004.

Jack Welch was the chair and chief executive of General Electric from 1981 to 2001. Welch increased the market value of GE dramatically from $14 billion to $410 billion. He had a reputation as one ...

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