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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job – Disruption and Activist Investors

Steve Blank

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World, ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Things will not stay the same at GE.”. So what happened?

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Powering Corporate Innovation in Finance: Industry Insights

Qmarkets

We often hear about sectors ‘facing disruption’, but few industries today are experiencing it at the same level as the finance industry. As we’ll see, this disruption presents finance firms with various challenges, but lots of opportunities too. Lending in particular faces disruption in the years ahead.