GE’s First Outsider CEO Makes the Hard Decision No Others Would
- Larry Culp says he didn’t always plan to break company apart
- Prior leaders had resisted splitting the storied conglomerate
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It took an outsider to do what no one else would.
Larry Culp, the first General Electric Co. leader who didn’t come up through the ranks, announced the breakup of one of the most storied companies in U.S. history.