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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

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. Chicago used interest rate swaps on its 2003, 2005, 2007, and 2009 bond deals, apparently as part of a synthetic fixed rate strategy. ( Buyers and traders in the $3.7