Jeff Immelt's 16 years at the helm of General Electric left the company in shambles. The once-great company was drowning in debt, under fire from authorities and facing severe financial stress.
A year after he stepped down as CEO in 2017, GE's crumbling stock was kicked out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the first time in more than a century. Immelt further angered shareholders because GE used not one, but two, private jets to escort him around the world.
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