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CEO, General Electric, 52 · New York He's not the most charismatic man in the country, or even in business. In the seven years he's been on the job, his company's stock has declined about 40 percent, and Wall Street is starting to get on his case. Doesn't matter. When you run General Electric, as Jeffrey Immelt does, you deserve to be on this list. You have to be on it. No big company matters more to the 21st century--not Microsoft or Google, not Gazprom or Toyota. General Electric went global long before most corporations; now every company understands the importance of globalization. It serves as a proxy for the changing nature of the American economy, shedding its appliance division, for instance, and diving ever deeper into medical... [read full story]
