At Any Cost: Jack Welch, General Electric, and the Pursuit of Profit
- ISBN-10
- 0375705678
- ISBN-13
- 9780375705670
- Series
- At Any Cost
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 456
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Thomas F. O'Boyle
Description
A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal offers a critical account of the leadership of General Electric's Chief Executive Officer, Jack Welch, illustrating Welch's ruthless but successful "downsizing" and GE's questionable practices. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.
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