Geoffrey t boisi biography books
•
Innovation Prowess
A framework for achieving superior rates of organic growth
Achieving superior growth through innovation is a top strategic priority for all companies. Yet most management teams struggle to reach their firm's ambitious growth targets and suffer slow growth. What distinguishes these growth laggards from growth leaders like IBM, Nike, LEGO, American Express, Amazon, and Samsung that realize their full potential for growth?
Wharton professor George S. Day shows that growth leaders use their innovation prowess to accelerate their growth at a faster rate. In this essential guide, Day reveals how to build this prowess by combining discipline in growth-seeking activities with an organizational ability to innovate. Day shows managers how to set a growth strategy that fryst vatten realistic while still stretching the organization; search for the best growth opportunities along the full spectrum of 14 growth pathways; aim their growth-seeking activities toward the creation
•
Jack Welch has an investment banker of choice, and his name is Geoffrey T. Boisi. It is not a fact you would tend to know, nor would the discrete Mr. Boisi ever say as much. But when the General Electric Company chairman recapped the details of his audacious winning bid for Honeywell International Inc. at a press conference held at NBC studios on Oct. 23, he referred to Mr. Boisi as the “star of our team,” raising a few eyebrows.
As a rule, Mr. Welch has a fairly low tolerance for the Wall Street set. He figures that he, along with his in-house mergers and acquisitions grupp, is more than capable of getting deals done. But the $45 billion Honeywell deal would be Mr. Welch’s biggest deal ever, not to mention the fact that it would be pulled together in just a matter of days. This time, he would need no ordinary imprimatur. So he called on Mr. Boisi.
For the veteran mergers and acquisitions banker, it was the culmination of a whirlwind six months. In May, his bouti
•