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Jack Welch is the former CEO of General Electric.

Born in Salem, Massachusetts, the son of a bus conductor, he studied chemical engineering at the university of Massachusetts, gaining a PhD in the same subject from the university of Illinois. He joined General Electric’s plastics division in 1960. He devoted the rest of his working life to the company.

His rise was meteori...

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