2008 Woodie Awards
Former GE chief Welch to teach MIT course
AP
Issue date: 3/19/06 Section: News
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.- Former General Electric Co. CEO Jack Welch plans to share with students the business advice he offers in his books.
Welch will teach a leadership course this fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, MIT and Welch said Thursday.
The eight-session course, titled "Conversations with Jack Welch," will focus on the leadership beliefs and practices described in Welch's recent book, "Winning."
It will be the first time Welch has taught in the classroom.
"I haven't wanted to teach at business schools before because a lot of the people getting MBAs want to become consultants and investment bankers, and that doesn't require a lot of management expertise," said Welch, who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, near MIT's Cambridge campus. "But when I appeared at Sloan last spring as part of my book tour, I found a very enthusiastic dean and students who were engaged and energized by many of the same issues about which I care."
Welch, 70, co-wrote "Winning" with wife, Suzy Welch, a former Harvard Business Review editor.
Welch retired in 2001, the same year his earlier book, "Jack: Straight from the Gut," was released. He said he isn't thinking about taking up teaching as a career.
Welch was widely credited with transforming Fairfield, Conn.-based GE into a multibillion-dollar industrial, media and financial services conglomerate.
Welch will teach a leadership course this fall at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management, MIT and Welch said Thursday.
The eight-session course, titled "Conversations with Jack Welch," will focus on the leadership beliefs and practices described in Welch's recent book, "Winning."
It will be the first time Welch has taught in the classroom.
"I haven't wanted to teach at business schools before because a lot of the people getting MBAs want to become consultants and investment bankers, and that doesn't require a lot of management expertise," said Welch, who lives on Boston's Beacon Hill, near MIT's Cambridge campus. "But when I appeared at Sloan last spring as part of my book tour, I found a very enthusiastic dean and students who were engaged and energized by many of the same issues about which I care."
Welch, 70, co-wrote "Winning" with wife, Suzy Welch, a former Harvard Business Review editor.
Welch retired in 2001, the same year his earlier book, "Jack: Straight from the Gut," was released. He said he isn't thinking about taking up teaching as a career.
Welch was widely credited with transforming Fairfield, Conn.-based GE into a multibillion-dollar industrial, media and financial services conglomerate.