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| | |  Vitality curve: Encyclopedia II - Jack Welch - Early life and careerWelch was born in Peabody, Massachusetts to Irish-Catholic parents John, a Boston & Maine Railroad conductor and Grace, a housewife. He attended Salem High School and later the University of Massachusetts, graduating in 1957 with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering. He went on to receive his M.S. and Ph.D at the University of Illinois in 1960.
Welch joined General Electric in 1960. He worked as a junior engineer in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, at a salary of $10,500. Welch was displeased with the $1000 raise he was ...
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| | | | Vitality curve: Encyclopedia II - Jack Welch - Personal life Welch has had a slight stutter since childhood. He had four children with his first wife, Carolyn. They divorced amicably in April 1987 after 28 years of marriage. His second wife, Jane Beasley, was a former mergers-and-acquisitions lawyer. She married Jack in April 1989, and they divorced in 2003. While Mr. Welch had crafted a prenuptial agreement, Beasley insisted on a ten-year time limit to its applicability, and thus she was able to leave the marriage with an amount believed in the range of $180m [4]. Third wife of Jack Welch is Suzy Wet ...
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| | | | Vitality curve: Encyclopedia II - Jack Welch - Criticism Some people believe that Welch is given too much credit for GE's success. They contend that individual managers are responsible for the company's success. For example, Gary C. Wendt led GE Capital to contribute nearly 40% of the company's total earnings and Robert C. Wright worked to effect a turnaround at NBC, leading it to five years of double-digit earnings and the No.1 position in prime time ratings. Also, Welch did not rescue GE from great losses; indeed, the company had 16% annual earnings growth during the tenure of his predecessor, R ...
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| | | | Vitality curve: Encyclopedia II - Jack Welch - Tenure as CEO of GE Through the 1980s, Welch worked to streamline GE and make it a more competitive company, although many would say this was at too great a cost to individual employees who were not treated with respect. He shut down factories, reduced payrolls, cut lackluster old-line units. He also pushed the managers of the businesses he kept to become ever more productive. Welch worked to eradicate inefficiency by trimming inventories and dismantling the bureaucracy that had almost led him to leave GE in the past. Although he was initially treated with cont ...
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