Learning from GEs Stumbles
Roger Martin, a professor at the University of Toronto\u2019s Rotman School of Management, offers two main reasons General Electric has lost its competitiveness. GE\u2019s stock has been removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Martin blames pressures from activist investors as well as a short-sighted mergers and acquisitions strategy. He\u2019s the author of \u201cGE\u2019s Fall Has Been Accelerated by Two Problems. Most Other Big Companies Face Them, Too.\u201d