• Launching the Jack Welch Management Institute
  I can’t remember the last time I was as excited as I am today, as we launch a new online MBA at Chancellor University which will bring together the best of the traditional MBA with the ideas and practices in “Winning.” We’re doing something really new and different, with a terrific team – creating a global, integrated, relevant MBA for people at all levels of their careers. Suzy and I are thrilled to be entering the educational space of the future. Visit our site at www.jwmi.com -Jack Welch, June 22, 2009

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  Vlad Maior
  6/22/2009 7:42 AM
  
  Mr. Welch, pls tell me if someone from Romania can attend courses in JWMI. Thank you
  
  

   

  Elizabeth Wollin
  6/22/2009 7:58 AM
  
  Dear Mr. Welch: I was delighted to read in the Journal about your sponsorship of on-line MBA. I would urge you to expand your influence in education to encourage the US Department of Education to get behind a program for a fully accredited Ivy quality on-line university. This is a initiative whose time has come. I am the parent of a high school junior and have been doing the college visit thing. Increasingly, I am wondering why anyone would shell out mid-$50K's for a college education of dubious value. In addition, it is evident from these college visits that our educational system is complicit in perpetrating the racial and economic divide in our country. Pretty much all education involves a heavy component of self-education. A fully-accredited on-line education would allow every sufficiently motivated kid in a trailer park or ghetto or rural area to educate themselves for the marketplace. Most private and public universities have some form of on-line curriculum which could be leveraged into such a university. Why have this duplication of educational content across many content providers? Also, you have Itunes U which distributes some educational content free. MIT, for instance, publishes a lot of course content on-line. What is missing is 1)a rating agency that would evaluate course content, 2) a certification system like a College Board System (only better) which would be recognized by the major global employers. One aspect of on-line curriculm such as the MIT course content, is that it has not been engineered for web delivery. A distinct benefit to delivering on-line curriculum is that it can be designed for folks with learning disabilites and the current generation of gamer attention span. See Mr. Kurzweil on this one. Mr. Welch, an initiative of this potential global impact requires a sponsor or sponsors with your vision and your contacts and visibility. This initiative could be the killer app of the 21st century and could lift the U.S. out of its current downturn and return us to productivity with a highly skilled workforce. Please consider sponsoring such an initiative. Thank you, Elizabeth Wollin
  
  

   

  Jody Ordioni
  6/22/2009 1:30 PM
  
  I can help you attract the best talent in the online education space. Check out http://www.brandemix.com for more details. Good luck with your exciting venture.
  
  

   

  Dr. Mukhles Rahman
  6/22/2009 3:40 PM
  
  Hi Jack and Suzy: This is a most effective, enlightening and exciting news for us. Education is a key to recovery and prosperity of this great nation. I have admired Jack, your journey and was convinced that the processes are universally applicable and of time-honored values such as: 1) Being number 1 or 2 (strive to excell); 2) Workout sessions to eliminate burueacracy barriers; 3) Boundaryless operations; 4) Six Sigma measurements; and so on. I would strongly recommend Obama Administration provides significant resources from all areas of governmental functions as well as for companies in recovery supported by the government to your new venture. I hope and strongly desire that your program teaches people to build great organizations and lead the way for prosperity for all of us. Instead of giving handouts, you are providing a strong, significant and effective tool through this education endeavor. Thank you for your generous offering to the society. Hopefully, it will be in the spirit and of the magnitude of Andrew Carnegie's contributions. Best wishes and kindest regards to both of you.
  
  

   

  Jayesh Malanker
  6/23/2009 9:55 AM
  
  Dear Jack, Congratulations. This is Great Start. We need your guidance...I am Ph.D.(Tech) - age 36. Still learning and want to learn from great leader like you. Thanks, Jayesh
  
  

   

  jeff graf
  6/23/2009 7:27 PM
  
  I now agree that online education represents the future of education. My take is here: http://bit.ly/online-degrees
  
  

   

  Chris Brown
  6/25/2009 4:36 PM
  
  Hi Jack and Suzy, Congratulations on launching this initiative, bringing something new to the market is very exciting. There is unquestionably a need for this in the market. We just launched a new product ourselves today design to measure corporate culture, something I know Jack has written and spoken about a lot. We are working with some MBA schools to allow students to use the tools and get some real world consulting experience. Perhaps it is something you maybe interested in down the track. Good luck!
  
  

   

  John Weyer
  6/26/2009 11:21 AM
  
  Congratulations! Best wishes! We need to eventually move to offer a complete education/reeducation online. The "standard" education is so dumbed down that it puts our society and economy at risk. If our children do not know what they have in America, they will not know what they are losing until it is too late. Competition is the only thing that is going to move the current educational monopoly toward improvement. When I did my paper for a labor course in college in 1960, I reviewed the New York unions' goals and impact. Their motto/mantra (including the teachers' unions) was "less work for more pay"-it has never changed. You need to write the story of GE leaving New York State because of the unemployment benefits for strikers and how Mayor Lindsay told GE HQ to get out if they didn't like the way he was ruining the city. New York State is the case study on how to kill the golden goose with socialism. After WW II, almost all fortune 500 companies were in New York. Today, perhaps 60 to 70 remain. Thank goodness most escaped the boot of socialism. Now they are pushing top down socialism so we can not escape.
  
  

   

• Our Business Reality Series
  Our new web show It's Everybody's Business (with Microsoft) starts today. Real business, real problems. Check it out.  -Jack Welch, June 15, 2009

  
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  kevin odea
  6/16/2009 12:39 PM
  
  show was fantastic great example of people in business and personal life have to get back to face to face conversations with the goal of a common solution
  
  

   

  Kathleen
  6/16/2009 11:44 PM
  
  Great Show Jack!Iam from New England originally and I have to tell you I just love the Boston accent, the fierce, bold, intelligent attitude but with kindness. You brought everyone together on one page without pain. But of course you would! Bedtter tell" The Donald" to watch out!
  
  

   

  Frederick
  6/17/2009 11:44 AM
  
  So enjoyable to watch REAL interaction instead of the usual BS that goes on in meetings.
  
  

   

  Mike Ali
  6/21/2009 5:58 AM
  
  I loved it! It's amazing what a little "straight-talk" can do.
  
  

   

  Sunday Abiria
  6/30/2009 12:10 AM
  
  Where is the next episode?
  
  

   

• Congress is helping matters?
  With Congress all over the auto restructuring, plant closing calls to CEO, dealer hearings, etc., have to think chances for success are diminished.
  -Jack Welch, June 13, 2009

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  Michael John McCann
  6/14/2009 11:05 AM
  
  I am far more worried that small businesses are treading water while the big rescue of big things move forward. This gap in funding small business will be felt for some time. I am seeing this on the ground. Congress, and some big business live in never, never land now. They never have to worry. How did we get here?! Is that a question or exclamation point?!Best. Mike
  
  

   

  Glenn Courtney
  6/14/2009 10:08 PM
  
  With all that the Obama administration is trying to do, I am beginning to wonder what is slipping under the rug. Waiste and corruption will utimately show up and his mastery of the media will certainly be tested. I feel we are standing on the point of a needle.
  
  

   

  isabela martin
  6/29/2009 2:41 PM
  
  I've just read your article published at "Exame", a brazilian magazine, about your excitement as a new-born twitter friend. I am following you. My name is Isabela., I am a journalist who got an MBA in Marketing some years ago. Yes, twitter ir really amazing...It exterminates distances and approachs people who live so far away just like you and me.
  
  

   

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