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

Harvard Business

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So far in 2017, GE is the worst-performing stock on the Dow Jones Industrial Average. In the case of P&G, 40% of its stock was owned by small investors, helping the company fight off a 2017 proxy battle with Trian.). Then it wasn’t.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. 28, as Bond Girl, she wrote a 1,650-word blog post for the Financial Times’ Alphaville on a proposed debtor-in-possession financing for bankrupt Detroit. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test. State Rep.