Jeffrey Immelt

What makes a truly great leader? Attention to detail, a vision for the future, or maybe a strong personality? How about an education from Harvard or another top business school? Maybe the formula for superior leadership is much simpler; maybe the best way to spot a great leader is simply to look for someone who doesn't focus on profits.

CEO bonuses rose 30.5% in the past year, but are the heads of large U.S. firms really earning their hefty compensation packages by creating increased profits and shareholder value? A closer look reveals wide disparities: There are some Bargain CEOs, but also some Hogs and Value Destroyers.

Four pieces of information reported recently, each with a different level of confirmation, show the extent to which the future of Goldman Sachs may be determined be the mainstream press, and the extent to which "news" about it is often not confirmed by the investment bank, its clients, or federal regulators.

Tom Shales, the famously cranky TV critic at The Washington Post, is predicting that Jay Leno's new show may not survive if Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) takes over NBC Universal. "Among the first items of business [following a Comcast takeover] might be the undoing of another deal: the pact NBC made with...

Don't they teach the law of unintended consequences in CEO school? News Corp. (NWS) chairman Rupert Murdoch and General Electric Co. (GE) chief Jeffrey Immelt tried to spare themselves some personal discomfort by brokering a truce of sorts between their cable news operations, whose mascots, Bill...

Chief executives are normally the sort of folks who like to be in control, or at least be seen as in control, of everything going on around them. One exception is the CEOs of conglomerates that contain media companies. More often than not, they're anxious to be seen as utterly hands-off when it...

The brass at General Electric Co. (GE) is telling the on-air talent at CNBC too cool the anti-Obama rhetoric, at least that's the story coming from the New York Post's Page Six. GE Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt and NBC Universal head Jeff Zucker held the three-hour meeting at NBC's 30 Rockefeller...

General Electric Co. (GE) Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt may be one of the few Fortune 500 leaders with nice things to say about President Barack Obama. In an interview with his hometown paper, The Cincinnati Enquirer, he said that he believes that Obama's economic stimulus will work EVENTUALLY....