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Jack Welch was Chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001. Welch closed factories, laid off workers and introduced the concept of “rapid growth in a slow growing economy.” In retirement, Welch has been an active writer and public speaker, writing his memoir Victory in 2005. Welch died on March 1, 2020 at the age of 84. Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
September 25, 2022 The chief executive officer (CEO) is the highest-ranking person in the company. David Tepper
September 25, 2022 David Tepper is a renowned hedge fund manager and co-founder of Appaloosa Management L.P. Josef Ackermann
September 25, 2022 Josef Ackermann is a Swiss banker who served as CEO and Chairman of Deutsche Bank. Kenneth I. Chenault
September 25, 2022 Kenneth I. Chenot is a business executive known for his role as chairman and CEO of American Express. Larry Ellison
September 25, 2022 Larry Ellison is the founder of Oracle, the software company that created the first commercially viable relational database. Mark Zuckerberg
September 25, 2022 Mark Zuckerberg is a self-taught programmer, co-founder, chairman and CEO of Meta (formerly Facebook).
– According to Bloomberg, Zuckerberg’s net worth as of June 10, 2022 was about $68.2 billion. William Dillard II
September 25, 2022 William T. Dillard II became CEO of Dillard’s Inc. in 1998. 90/10 Strategy
September 25, 2022 The 90/10 retirement investment strategy involves investing 90% of investment capital in low-cost S&P 500 index funds, and the remaining 10% in short-term government bonds. Anomaly
September 25, 2022 Anomalies are events that deviate from the predictions of economic or financial models and undermine the underlying assumptions of those models. Board of Directors (B of D)
September 25, 2022 The board of directors of a public company is elected by the shareholders. Board of Trustees
September 25, 2022 The Board of Trustees is responsible for the management of the organization. C-Suite
September 25, 2022 “C-suite” refers to senior executives in a company. Chi Square Statistic
September 25, 2022 The chi-square statistic (χ2) is a measure of the difference between the observed and expected frequencies of the outcomes of a set of events or variables. Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
September 25, 2022 The CFO is a top-level manager. Chief Operating Officer (COO)
September 25, 2022 The chief operating officer (COO) is the senior officer tasked with overseeing the day-to-day administrative and operational functions of the business. Discrete Distribution
September 25, 2022 Discrete probability distribution counts events that have countable or final outcomes. Electronic Commerce (e-commerce)
September 25, 2022 E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet. Fortune 500
September 25, 2022 The Fortune 500 is an annual list of the top 500 US companies ranked by total revenue for their respective financial years. Friedrich Hayek
September 25, 2022 Social theorist and political philosopher Friedrich Hayek and his colleague Gunnar Myrdal received the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1974. Game Changer
September 25, 2022 A game changer is a person or company that significantly changes the way we work. General Manager (GM)
September 25, 2022 The general manager is expected to improve efficiency and increase profits by managing the overall operations of the company or division. George Soros
September 25, 2022 George Soros vies with Warren Buffett for the title of the most successful investor of all time. Gordon Gekko
September 25, 2022 Gordon Gekko is a fictional villain from Oliver Stone’s hit film Wall Street, who has become a cultural symbol of greed. Growth Curve
September 25, 2022 A growth curve shows the direction of some phenomena in time, in the past or in the future, or both. Hersey-Blanchard Model
September 25, 2022 The Hersey-Blanchard model suggests that no leadership style is better than another.