GE的董事會更新；Toyota to U.S. workers: Made-in-Japan Camrys are more profitable

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Toyota to U.S. workers: Made-in-Japan Camrys are more profitable

BY JOHN LIPPERT AND KEVIN BUCKLAND

Toyota Motor Corp. issued an unsettling warning to Kentucky workers building its top-selling Camry sedan: Cut costs now or face an uncertain future. The automaker can build a Camry in Japan, ship it all the way to Kentucky and make more money selling that car ...

超大型公司GE的董事會更新。原本無一事。

GE's Board Purge Set to Claim Big-Name Directors in Overhaul ...

General Electric Co. is narrowing its focus around several key markets, cutting costs and slashing the dividend. With all that shrinking going on, it’s only natural that the board would follow suit.

John Flannery, GE’s new chairman and chief executive officer, plans to reduce the size of the 18-member board by a third. The members of the smaller slate, which will include three new directors and nine returnees, will be proposed at the April 2018 shareholder meeting.

“Smaller board, new skills, easier to debate -- those are the things we were thinking,” Flannery said this week at an investor meeting. “I love different ideas. I love people coming in and saying, ‘Have you looked at it this way or that way?’”

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通用電氣公司(General Electric Co., GE)董事會大改組將免除許多與前首席執行長伊梅爾特(Jeff Immelt)長期以來關係親密的董事職務，目標是打造一個與現任首席執行長John Flannery精簡優化該工業巨頭戰略更加密切配合的董事會。
在這次不同尋常的董事會改組中，通用電氣18位現任董事一半將被免職，新增三位董事組成一個12人董事會，此舉說明在這個董事會領導下公司形成的問題很嚴重。上週Flannery稱，他希望減少董事會人數，增加一些具備與公司未來發展相適應的關鍵技能的新董事。