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• EARLY LIFE, EARLY LESSONS
• LEADING GE
• MANAGEMENT STYLE
• THE CULTURE OF COMPETITION
• EDUCATION
• THE "BOUNDARYLESS" COMPANY
• SOURCES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Former chairman and chief executive officer, General Electric Company

Nationality: American.

Born: November 19, 1935, in Peabody, Massachusetts.

Education: University of Massachusetts–Amherst, BS, 1957; University of Illinois–Champaign, MA, 1958; PhD, 1960.

Family: Son of John Welch (a railroad conductor) and Grace Andrews; married Carolyn Osburn, 1959 (divorced 1987); married Jane Beasley (an attorney), 1989 (divorced 2002); children (first marriage):...