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

Harvard Business Review

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. But first they need to get management of a company to change the existing strategy.

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