Jack Welch, legendary GE CEO, dead
Jack Welch, who led General Electric through two decades of extraordinary corporate prosperity and became the most influential business manager of his generation, died on March 1. He was 84.Combative and blunt, Mr. Welch became the chief executive of General Electric in 1981. It was a time of outsize gains for many of America’s big, multinational corporations and their leaders, who were helped by lower taxes and pro-business policies. G.E. led the pack. The company’s revenue jumped nearly fivefold, to $130 billion, during Mr. Welch’s tenure, while the value of its shares on the stock market soared from $14 billion to more than $410 billion. Fortune magazine named him the “Manager of the Century,” and in 2000 The Financial Times named G.E. “the World’s Most Respected Company” for the third straight year.(The New York Times)
3月1日，杰克·韦尔奇去世，享年84岁。韦尔奇曾领导通用电气走过二十载辉煌岁月，是同代人中最具影响力的企业管理者。1981年，锐意进取、性格耿直的韦尔奇始任通用电气首席执行官。当时推行的减税利商政策令美国许多大型跨国公司及其领导者收益巨大。通用电气正是其中的领头羊。韦尔奇在任期间，公司收入翻了近5倍，达1300亿美元，股票市值也从140亿美元暴涨至超过4100亿美元。《财富》杂志将他评为“世纪经理人”。2000年，《金融时报》连续第三年评选通用电气为“全球最受推崇公司”。
Dozens trapped as China’s quarantine hotel collapsed
Last Saturday, a hotel in China that was utilized to quarantine coronavirus patients collapsed, leaving around 70 people trapped beneath the rubble. The five-story, 80-room Xinjia Hotel is located in Quanzhou, in the southeastern Fujian Province. It remains unclear as of writing what caused the collapse and how many people—who either tested positive for COVID-19 or had come in contact with someone with coronavirus—were quarantined at the hotel, which opened in 2018, the People’s Daily, China reported. (Business Insider)
3月7日，中国一家用作新冠肺炎隔离观察点的酒店坍塌，约70人被埋瓦砾下。该酒店是位于中国福建省东南部泉州市的欣佳酒店，楼高5层，有80间客房。据中国《人民日报》报道，这家酒店2018年开业，截至写稿时，坍塌原因及隔离人数尚不明确，包括隔离人员中有多少人新冠病毒检测呈阳性、有多少人曾与新冠病毒感染者有密切接触。
