David Zaslav is sad.His day started off with a sobering phone call with Suzy Welch, author, host and widow of longtime General Electric CEO Jack Welch.
The morning headlines from the once largest company in the world and citadel of corporate America came as a jolt to Zaslav, who previously worked for then-GE-owned NBC for 18 years.After years of struggling, GE announced on Nov.
9 that it will carve itself up over the next two years into three publicly traded companies focused separately on energy, aviation and health care.
The conglomerate founded in 1892 through the merger of Thomas Edison’s Edison General Electric Co. and Thomson-Houston Electric Co.
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