2001 2015 Finance Innovation 
Harvard Business Review
JULY 17, 2018
During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 4, 2015
Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.
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