Jeff Immelt

Jeff Immelt: Jeff Zucker "As Good As Anyone Running A Media Company Today"

BusinessWeek | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media


Would General Electric CEO (GE) Jeff Immelt like to see NBC Universal CEO Jeff Zucker stick around, even if GE sells off majority control of its broad...

Exxon is Green? CFL's "Probably" Reduce Energy Use?

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home


Andrew Winston

There's a rise in ridiculous cover stories and op-eds in the green world.

Rahm Emanuel Called Media CEOs Personally To Lobby For Obama Airtime

Washington Post | Howard Kurtz | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media


Rather than calling ABC, the White House chief of staff phoned Bob Iger, chief executive of parent company Disney. Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel ...

Rupert Murdoch, Jeff Immelt Met To Broker MSNBC-Fox News Truce: Report

Los Angeles Times | Posted 08.31.2009 | Media


News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch and General Electric chief Jeffrey Immelt met up at -- appropriately enough -- the Microsoft CEO summit in Redmond, Wa...

CEO Pay Plunged In 2008

AP | RACHEL BECK and MATTHEW FORDAHL | Posted 06.01.2009 | Business


NEW YORK — CEOs are taking a hit from the recession _ less total compensation, smaller bonuses, nearly worthless stock options _ but their compa...

O'Reilly Producer Infiltrates GE Shareholders Meeting

hollywoodreporter.com | Posted 05.24.2009 | Media


The hostility between Fox News Channel and MSNBC reached a fever pitch Wednesday when a Fox producer infiltrated the GE shareholders meeting. Just ...

GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt's 2008 Bonus Declined

AP | STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 03.21.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — General Electric Co. said Wednesday that Chairman and Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt will forgo a 2008 bonus and performance awards...

GE Profit Falls 46%

AP | STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business


WASHINGTON — In a discouraging report for the American economy, General Electric Co. posted a 46 percent drop in fourth-quarter earnings on Frid...

Vivendi: Olympics Gave NBC "A New Pulse," GE Will Not Sell

Financial Times | Ben Hall | Posted 10.03.2008 | Media


General Electric has no intention of selling its majority stake in NBC Universal, according to Vivendi, the French entertainment group, which is a fel...

Jeff Zucker: NBC Will Not Be Spun Off

AP | JEREMY HERRON | Posted 07.19.2008 | Media


SUN VALLEY, Idaho — General Electric has no plans to sell its NBC Universal media unit even as the conglomerate moves forward with spinning off ...

GE Profit Falls 6 Percent: Time To Sell More Businesses

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 07.19.2008 | Business


HARTFORD, Conn. — General Electric Co. reverted to form with no big surprises in its latest earnings report, and investors shocked by an unexpec...

Jeff Zucker: The Hottest Man In Sun Valley

New York Post | Peter Lauria | Posted 07.17.2008 | Media


SUN VALLEY, Idaho - In what's certain to be an unfamiliar role for him, NBC Universal boss Jeff Zucker is expected to be the popular guy at the Allen ...

GE To Slash Water Use 20 Percent

AP | JOE McDONALD | Posted 06.05.2008 | Business


BEIJING — General Electric Co. will cut its global water use by 20 percent over five years, CEO Jeff Immelt said Wednesday. Immelt also spoke o...

GE Set To Sell Appliance Business

AP | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business


FAIRFIELD, Conn. — General Electric Co. plans to auction off its Louisville, Ky.-based appliances business, The Wall Street Journal reported Wed...

Immelt Defends GE While Acknowledging "Tough" Criticism

The Wall Street Journal | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business


The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt defended his company's business model while acknowledging the tough c...

Jack Welch: His Final Transformation Isn't Pretty

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Was Jack helping GE by doing this? Is there any objective, rational reason that such statement be made as the company is trying to fight its way out of a problem that we are ALL suffering from at this point? In a word, NO.

Welch Backpedals On Immelt "Ass-Kicking" Insult

Silicon Alley Insider | Henry Blodget | Posted 04.25.2008 | Business


Yesterday morning, ex-CEO of GE (GE) Jack Welch blasted his handpicked successor Jeff Immelt on CNBC, laying responsibility for GE's first quarter bom...

Welch On GE's Immelt: "He's Getting His Ass Kicked"

Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 04.24.2008 | Business


What does former GE (GE) boss and straight-from-the-gut management superstar Jack Welch think caused GE's first quarter bomb? Is GE's model broken? (C...

"Shocking" GE Results Prove Depth Of Financial Crisis

Financial Times | Francesco Guerrera, Justin Baer | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


General Electric underlined the depth of the global financial crisis on Friday, announcing its worst quarter in five years and slashing full-year fore...

GE's Shocking Tumble: Analysts React

Wall Street Journal | http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2008/04/11/analysts-react-ges-miss/?mod=WSJBlog | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


Wall Street analysts, at least in their research, tend to display a measured tone, but General Electric Co.'s surprising earnings miss has brought out...

Pathetic GE: Blame Bear Stearns For Our Mess

Silicon Alley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


Good news for NBC U: they're not GE's (GE) only problem anymore. Bad news for GE: CEO Jeff Immelt suddenly sounded like the just another American CEO,...

Feeble GE Profits Shake Markets

Bloomberg | Raychel Lane | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


General Electric Co. reported its first decline in quarterly profit since 2003, missing analyst estimates with a 12 percent drop in earnings as a free...

GE's Immelt: Time To Go?

24/7 Wall Street | Posted 04.19.2008 | Business


It is time for Jeff Immelt to leave. His plans for GE's long-term future are a wreak. GE's pitch that being in many businesses is better than one and...

Familiar Faces Top Fortune's Power 25

Fortune | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


Some are empire builders. Others are hired guns. But if they truly have world-class oomph, they're on Fortune's subjective - yet really quite accurate...

Grove: To Innovate, Established Giants Need To Transform Other Markets

Portfolio | Andy Grove | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


I usually try to control myself and resist giving compliments or unsolicited advice to people I don't know well. But I recently did just that. I email...