Jack Welch News

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The top five leaders most admired by the world's business executives are Winston Churchill, Steve Jobs, Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Jack Welch - in that order, according to the 2013 Global CEO Survey conducted by PwC.

The argument that companies like JPMorgan should split their chairman and CEO jobs to strengthen corporate governance is "the dumbest idea in the world," former GE boss Jack Welch told CNBC on Tuesday.

"Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others".

An odd coalition has lined up to support the National Security Agency amid news that the NSA has been secretly collecting phone records from Verizon and a more recent report that the agency is directly accessing the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other large internet companies through its "PRISM" program.

Corporate governance advocates and shareholder activists have long complained that chief executive officer pay, which has jumped by a third since 2007, is sometimes way out of line with a top executive's on-the-job performance.

Don't mess with Steven Faas. The new vice president and CIO of ITT Industries has a black belt?a Six Sigma black belt, that is.

Harvard economist Carmen Reinhart. Another aspect of her influential research with Kenneth Rogoff has been debunked by two new studies.

The former General Electric CEO and his wife, Suzy Welch, have a deal with Harper Business for a book to come out in May 2014.

Federal investigators planned to spend the coming days piecing together what caused a chemical-carrying CSX train to collide with a trash truck, derail and explode at a rail crossing in suburban Baltimore.

Independent Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee is joining the Democratic Party ahead of his bid for a second term.

Maybe it's just me, but the door to CEO jobs seems to be revolving faster than usual lately, raising an old question for shareholders, customers and employees of big companies: Does it really matter which highly qualified man or woman is the chief executive? If so, by how much? Economists and finance researchers have been studying these questions ... (more)

While many business challenges are common for all founders, there are unique lessons that women entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to learn in business.

If there are rock stars in corporate America, Lafley is one of the biggest. He was to the 2000s what Jack Welch was to the 1990s, the CEO who most embodied the business zeitgeist of the decade .

First, let's enact a one-time bonus payment to those who have served our country since Sept.

Introduction I recently read an article in Variety comparing Disney's Bob Iger to GE's Jack Welch.