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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. In my view, however, the structure and processes of the GE board were poorly designed for effectively overseeing Immelt and his management team.

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Hiring and Managing in Turbulent Times

Harvard Business

How can today’s leaders manage this new normal? The second World War had left business slow and finances strained. Then came the September 11, 2001, attacks, followed by fully-fledged economic crises in the U.S. But, with legions of great engineers streaming out of closing or soon-to-close U.S.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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Mortgage REITs Clobbered as Leverage Forces Sales

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Annaly Capital Management Inc. financial stability were as misleading as the media frenzy over shark attacks in 2001. That means they benefited from cheap financing as the Fed kept short-term interest rates near zero for more than four years.

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Consultant Ninja: Friedman Billings Ramsey and Tom Peters.

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. It wasnt until 2001 that he admitted that he made up most of the data in the book. Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. The ANALyst.

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Witch Hunt is On; Foolish Ideas on Stopping the Shanghai Carnage; US Bubble Will Burst Too

MishTalk

The amusing comment of the day comes from Zhu Ning, deputy dean at Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance: “ If [the government] does nothing then all its previous efforts will have been wasted but if they continue with the rescue efforts then the hole will get bigger and bigger. Nor were shorts the problem in 2000 and 2008 in the US.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Blank Checks, Inflation.

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Japan is on its 16th prime minister since its asset bubble burst around 1990 and not since, or long before, Junichiro Koizumi (2001-2006) has it had a truly audacious leader pledging to shake up the status quo. December 2008 (85). November 2008 (78).