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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 Innovation at GE was on a roll. Then it wasn’t.