Unlikely victory : how General Electric succeeded in the chemical industry /
Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended up as one of the top U.S. chemical producers--with 1998 sales of 6.6 billion? In Unlikely Victory, Jerome T. Coe, a retired 40-year career employee wit...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
American Institute of Chemical Engineers,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Many companies that stray too far from their core business fail. So how is it that General Electric, a major electrical manufacturing company, ended up as one of the top U.S. chemical producers--with 1998 sales of 6.6 billion? In Unlikely Victory, Jerome T. Coe, a retired 40-year career employee with General Electric, who spent more than 20 years as a manager of the company's chemical businesses, suggests that it was a combination of necessity, forward-thinking of the engineers, and managers wise enough to give them breathing room. "Much of what they did (then) was counter to the prevailing GE |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 219 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780470935484 0470935480 9780470935477 0470935472 |