Lawrence Arthur "Larry" Bossidy was born on March 5,1935 and is an American author and retired businessman.
16 Facts About Lawrence Bossidy
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Lawrence Bossidy was CEO of AlliedSignal in the 1990s, prior to which he spent more than 30 years rising through executive positions at General Electric.
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Lawrence Bossidy worked at the family shoe store growing up, had dreams of being a Major League Baseball pitcher, and once had a summer job of pitching baseball for a college league team in Quebec, Canada.
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When Lawrence Bossidy was a senior in high school he had a 95+ mph fastball, and a scout offered Lawrence Bossidy a $40,000 contract to pitch for the Detroit Tigers.
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Lawrence Bossidy was a member of the Mu chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Colgate.
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Lawrence Bossidy was later conferred a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Colgate.
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Lawrence Bossidy stayed with General Electric for the next 34 years, rising in the company through a number of executive positions including chief operating officer of General Electric Credit Corporation from 1979 to 1981, Executive Vice President and President of GE's Services and Materials Sector from 1981 to 1984, and vice-chairman and Executive Officer of the General Electric Company from 1984 to 1991.
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Lawrence Bossidy challenged everything, If you couldn't back up what you said, look out.
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Lawrence Bossidy had a long term business relationship with General Electric CEO Jack Welch that began in the late 1960s when Lawrence Bossidy came to audit GE's plastics division where Welch worked at the time.
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Lawrence Bossidy later worked for Welch when Welch became CEO at General Electric.
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Lawrence Bossidy was very close to GE CEO Jack Welch but left for Allied Signal because he was too close in age to Welch to be considered as his successor.
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From 1991 to 1999, Lawrence Bossidy served as chairman and CEO of AlliedSignal Corporation.
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Lawrence Bossidy became Chairman of Honeywell Corporation when Honeywell was acquired by AlliedSignal in 1999.
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Lawrence Bossidy retired in April 2000, then returned in July 2001, following an unsuccessful effort by General Electric to acquire Honeywell; he again retired from Honeywell in 2002.
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Lawrence Bossidy served as Chairman of The Business Council in 1997 and 1998.
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Lawrence Bossidy was a director of the pharmaceutical company Merck from 1992 until April 2007.