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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008. How has Bezos done this? Suria was wrong about that.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation.

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