BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : DECEMBER 11, 2000 ISSUE
COVER STORY Jeffrey R. Immelt BORN Feb. 19, 1956, Cincinnati, Ohio BACKGROUND Father was GE Aircraft Engines manager; mother was schoolteacher BORN LEADER Counseled high school basketball coach to scream less; it worked FAMILY Met his wife, Andrea, at GE Plastics; one daughter HOBBIES Golf EDUCATION BS, economics, applied math, Dartmouth (photo at left); MBA, Harvard TEAM PLAYER Offensive right tackle on Dartmouth football team, which went 6-3 his final year FORMER GE TITLE President and CEO, GE Medical Systems CURRENT TITLE President and Chairman-Elect of GE GE HIGHLIGHTS Revived stagnant medical-products division; persuaded carmakers to use more plastic bumpers; successfully handled a massive recall of refrigerator parts MANAGEMENT STYLE ''I think there's a difference between tough-mindedness and meanness'' _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _					RELATED ITEMS The Man Who Would Be Welch GRAPHIC: The Welch Effect TABLE: Immelt's Challenges RESUME: Jeffrey R. Immelt Jack: The Welch Era at General Electric Neutron Jack High Points Low Points The Welch Touch INTERACT E-Mail to Business Week Online

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