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William D. Cohan on the Rise and Fall of GE

Masters in Business

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Jack Welsh's Dad Punched Your Ticket

Jack Welsh was an only child and his mother was a stay-at-home mom. He went to UMass in Amherst, Massachusetts; got a PSPHD in chemical engineering at the University of Illinois. Then he moved to Pittsfield to try to figure out how to commercialize GE's plastic pellets business.

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