Spring 2003 Contrarian’ s Notebook

“What else matters if you're lucky in love?” went a song in the 1927 Broadway college musical Good News. Some CEOs these days must be asking the opposite question: What else matters if you're unlucky in love?

Certainly Jack Welch's disastrous failure to manage an amicable end to his marriage has undermined the glowing assessments of his management skills at General Electric (see this column, Winter 2003). Now an entire business family's invincible reputation has been dashed on the rocks of a marriage gone sour.

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