A hard act to followIt has taken GE’s boss, Jeffrey Immelt, 13 years to escape the legacy of his predecessor, Jack Welch, and to steer the industrial colossus in a new direction THINGS at last seem to be going Jeffrey Immelt’s way. On June 23rd General Electric, the huge American multinational he runs, was declared the winner in a battle for the energy businesses of Alstom, a French engineering gr
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