What Happened to GE?

My Business Finance professor was of the impression one of the recent CEOs really wanted to lead a finance firm but got offered GE, so he decided to try to turn GE into a finance company.

Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric

https://www.amazon.com/Lights-Out-Delusion-General-Electric-...

The fall of Nortel is also an interesting case of mismanagement and other issues.