| Description |
798 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Place of publication from publisher's website. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 759-779) and index. |
| Summary |
"The dramatic rise--and unimaginable fall--of America's most iconic corporation by New York Times bestselling author and pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan. No company embodied American ingenuity, innovation, and industrial power more spectacularly and more consistently than the General Electric Company. GE once developed and manufactured many of the inventions we take for granted today, nearly everything from the lightbulb to the jet engine. GE also built a cult of financial and leadership success envied across the globe and became the world's most valuable and most admired company. But even at the height of its prestige and influence, cracks were forming in its formidable foundation. In a masterful re-appraisal of a company that once claimed to "bring good things to life," pre-eminent financial journalist William D. Cohan argues that the incredible story of GE's rise and fall is not only a paragon, but also a prism through which we can better understand American capitalism. Beginning with its founding, innovations, and exponential growth through acquisitions and mergers, Cohan plumbs the depths of GE's storied management culture, its pioneering doctrine of shareholder value, and its seemingly hidden blind spots, to reveal that GE wasn't immune from the hubris and avoidable mistakes suffered by many other corporations. In POWER FAILURE, Cohan punctures the myth of GE, exploring in a rich narrative how a once-great company wound up broken and in tatters--a cautionary tale for the ages."-- Provided by publisher |
| Contents |
ch. One A Child of two Fathers -- ch. Two Two Crises -- ch. Three The Battle of the Airwaves -- ch. Four The Incredible Electrical Conspiracy -- ch. Five Jack From Plastics -- ch. Six The Benign Cycle of Power -- ch. Seven Reg and Jack -- ch. Eight The Brass Ring -- ch. Nine Growing Pains -- ch. Ten The New Jack Pack -- ch. Eleven A Tale Of Two Acquisitions -- ch. Twelve The Bank Of General Electric -- ch. Thirteen Top Of The Rock -- ch. Fourteen Wheelin' And Dealin' -- ch. Fifteen Earnings Management -- ch. Sixteen The Bake-Off -- ch. Seventeen Habemus Papam -- ch. Eighteen One Good Day -- ch. Nineteen Diluting the Blob -- ch. Twenty Imagination at Work -- ch. Twenty-One The Blind Spot -- ch. Twenty-Two Burning Furniture -- ch. Twenty-Three Power Man -- ch. Twenty-Four If You Strike at the King -- ch. Twenty-Five A Fox Guarding the Henhouse -- ch. Twenty-Six Eisenhower -- ch. Twenty-Seven The Last Emperor -- ch. Twenty-Eight Who Lost Ge?. |
| Subject |
General Electric Company.
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Electric industries -- United States -- History.
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General Electric Company. (OCoLC)fst00534810
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Electric industries. (OCoLC)fst00904915
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780593084168 (hardcover) |
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0593084160 (hardcover) |
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9780593084175 electronic book |
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0593084179 electronic book |
| Standard No. |
40031416026 |
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