Jeffrey Immelt then took the podium to explain more details of the two-part initiative.
All the more reason for Sumner Redstone, Jeffrey Immelt and Gerald Levin to be interested.
As recently as 2008 GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt was looking to sell the place.
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As for GE, Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt risks more than just embarrassment if the deal falls through.
Those mentioned in the book include former GE CEO Jack Welch and current GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt.
Other prominent grads include General Electric head Jeffrey Immelt, eBay chief John Donahoe and former IBM boss Louis Gerstner.
His exit was a six-year drama that ended in 2000 with the anointing of Jeffrey Immelt as his successor.
Wendt quit in 1998, and Welch retired as chairman in September 2001, succeeded by current Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt.
"Her understanding of corporate governance and financial regulation will be of great benefit to GE, " CEO Jeffrey Immelt said.
Others included Rob Gillette, the CEO of First Solar ( FSLR)and Jeffrey Immelt, the General Electric ( GE) chief executive.
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Jeffrey Immelt, the boss of GE, in Delhi last week, cheerily agreed, insisting that a fast-growing market trumps all other concerns.
President Obama is forming a new group, headed by General Electric Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Immelt, to focus on job creation.
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Under Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt, who took over from the sainted Jack Welch in 2001, the place continues to be extraordinarily well managed.
GE's shares, however, it was not wholly clear whether Jeffrey Immelt, the firm's boss, was climbing out of a hole, or digging himself deeper in.
The business ranges from transporting, housing and feeding 1, 800 NBC workers to crafting a high-end junket for General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt and his board of directors.
Soon after President Obama appointed Jeffrey Immelt to chair his Economic Advisory Board, the GE CEO announced that his company would buy 50, 000 of those cars.
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Included on our list are Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, founders of Google and Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of General Electric.
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The commissioner of the NFL, Roger Goodell, along with CEO of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, provided the opening comments to the packed room at 30 Rock in the GE building.
Caught in the middle is GE's medical division, the old home of current chief Jeffrey Immelt and the biggest seller of X-ray, MRI, ultrasound and CT-scanning equipment in the world.
Does this mean that by picking GE chief executive Jeffrey Immelt to run his White House panel on jobs and competitiveness, President Obama has picked the best leader of leaders there is?
Steve Ballmer replaced Bill Gates, and Jeffrey Immelt replaced Jack Welch, and both have stayed in the CEO position for a substantial amount of time, despite the magnitude of the replacement challenges that they faced.
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The business ranges from transporting, housing and feeding 1, 800 NBC workers to crafting a high-end junket for General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) CEO Jeffrey Immelt and his board of directors.
Some of the U.S. executives in attendance, such as Boeing CEO Jim McNerney and General Electric boss Jeffrey Immelt, have become relatively familiar faces at the White House, attending business-related summits hosted by the Obama administration.
Jeffrey Immelt, chief executive of General Electric, also joined the call to restrict the use of consultants, suggesting that they may push top bosses' pay too far out of kilter compared with that of their deputies, which might breed discontent.
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In quite another class is the disgustingly egomaniacal ranting of former General Electric (nyse: GE - news - people ) chairman Jack Welch against current GE chairman Jeffrey Immelt for foolishly--yes, let's admit it--predicting a steady 10% growth in earnings.
In May and in June, Merkel traveled to the U.S. without fanfare (declining media interviews), to meet in closed-door sessions with U.S. industry leaders, from Coca-Cola chief NevilleIsdellNeville Isdell to General Electric 's JeffreyImmelt Jeffrey Immelt to Henry Paulson, then the chair of Goldman Sachs Group.
From 2005 to 2010, it reduced its foreign workforce by 1, 000, while cutting 28, 000 jobs in the U.S. But Chief Jeffrey Immelt tells Wessel that the company is shifting business overseas not in search of cheap labor, but rather, because of a growing customer base in countries like Brazil and China.
Last March, the GE's chief executive, Jeffrey Immelt, wrote an article in the Harvard Business Review where he announced that GE planned to add more than 1, 000 manufacturing jobs at its Louisville, Kentucky, facility - a manufacturing plant the company tried to sell only a few years ago during the depths of the recession.
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