Lights out
Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020, ©2020.
Format: Book
Description: ix, 353 pages ; 24 cm
"How could General Electric--perhaps America's most iconic corporation--suffer such a swift and sudden fall from grace?"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Off a cliff -- The meatball -- Neutron Jack -- Big Jeff -- the race -- Make some noise -- the Edison conduit -- Senioritis -- Last call -- Buying and selling -- Imagination at work -- Time to go big -- Higher returns -- Applied mathematics -- Size doesn't matter -- The screwup -- Enter the bear -- Paper jam -- Suspenders on suspenders -- Circle the wagons -- Kabletown -- No other way -- Green is green -- Palate cleanser -- The quarry -- New lieutenant -- Playing startup -- Cowboys into farmers -- Project Hubble -- the chop shop -- Big bets -- Dinner in Paris -- One day in Chicago -- A modest proposal -- "We know what we're doing" -- Buy high -- The problem with Owen's hammer -- "I don't even know what we're selling" -- Jeff's deal -- Closing costs -- An unexpected guest -- The candy factory -- Your people don't want it bad enough -- Making adjustments -- Back Bay deal -- Managing power -- Unmovable target -- The new guy -- Behind the curtain -- Triage -- Cleaning house -- Conservatively calculated -- A reset year -- A bill comes due -- Asleep at the switch -- "Managing in a broader sense" -- A midstream change.
ISBN:
9780358250418
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BUSINESS Gry | St. Andrews Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/3/2024) |
BUSINESS Gry | Wheatley (Shandon) | Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.