# Professor Aswath Damodaran comments on Jack Welch's tenure at General Electric

1 Faculty News June 15, 2017 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/business/ge-jack-welch-immelt.html) -- "As [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), a finance professor at the New York University Stern School of Business, put it, 'It’s always tough to follow a legend.'"

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