The law won an early battle for Marianna Nitsch’s heart. Though her father believed that she should become a businesswoman, she quit business studies just shy of completing a degree and capitalized on her law diploma instead. Nitsch had wanted to be an international business lawyer since she was a child. Don’t ask her why. “I had no idea what that meant,” she says.

She certainly had the right instincts: In October, Nitsch was named General Electric Company’s new general counsel for global growth and operations in Europe. She replaces Hendrick Bourgeois, who moved up to vice president for European affairs at GE.

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