Topic: General Electric Company

GE to Open Sodium-Based Battery Plant to Power Hybrid Locomotives, Create "Green Collar" Jobs

GE is making a move into the sodium-based battery business with a $100 million battery manufacturing plant in upstate New York. The company has previously invested heavily in lithium ion batteries--the batteries of choice for ...READ»

Best Is Not Always Nice

I was recently talking with someone who used to work for General Electric during the Jack Welch era.  They said that working at GE was the best job they've ever had.  Not because things were "nice" but because the ...READ»

GE's Heat Capture Breakthrough Captures Waste, Saves Water, Makes Power

General Electric has devised a way to generate energy from a unique kind of waste: the excess heat from its own gas turbines. An innovative system based on a process understood for decades but previously too expensive to implement ...READ»

More Power to Them

For more than a year, we've all been on a national learning journey, a trip of discovery into the land of real leadership. It started with September 11. In the aftermath of that terrible tragedy, Americans found themselves asking a ...READ»

GE's Hybrid Water Heater Cuts Energy Use by Half

Global warming, meet hybrid heating. General Electric, working with Oak Ridge National Laboratories, has developed an electric household water heater that runs on half the electricity of standard water heaters sold today. The ...READ»

Smart Meters Race to 2012 Olympic Games

The smart grid has been getting lots of press lately, with companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Google getting involved in energy monitoring at the same time that utilities across the U.S. are installing smart meters in customers' ...READ»

Adventures in Polymerland

A little-known unit inside General Electric, the world's best-known big company, is setting the standard for digital transformation -- and helping Jack Welch teach the rest of his company how to get with the Web program.READ»

The Top Executive Breeders

In my first column, I described the disturbing findings our firm (Executive Development Associates, Inc.) reported in its 2004 survey. In it, many of the of 100 companies polled worldwide say they, "lack the quality and depth of ...READ»

TRIZCON 2009 – Day 1

I spent the day at TRIZCON yesterday.  TRIZCON is the annual conference hosted by the Altschulller Institute for TRIZ Studies (AI) which draws an international audience of participants. After some opening comment by Mansour ...READ»

GE Wants to Manage the Net Zero Energy Home

Smart meters are great for keeping track of energy use, sure, but smart appliances and tools are also necessary for homes to truly become energy-efficient. GE wants to be the conduit that allows homes of the future to produce "net ...READ»

A Startup Joins Google and GE in the Smart Grid Conversation

The Obama stimulus signed yesterday contains $11 billion for technological upgrades to the electric grid. Huge companies like IBM, Cisco, GE, and now Google all have initiatives and investments in the so-called "smart grid." But ...READ»

Fast 50 2008: GE

GE Innovation guruREAD»

• Presenting the 2008 Fast 50
• The World's Most Innovative Companies
• The Faces and Voices of Google

Engines of Democracy

The General Electric plant in Durham, North Carolina builds some of the world's most powerful jet engines. But the plant's real power lies in the lessons that it teaches about the future of work and about workplace democracy.READ»

Listen Up!

You can't learn what your customers want if you don't know how to listen to them. And listening smart is harder than it sounds. Here's our crank-up-the-volume guide to building a listening organization.READ»

Trickle-Up Leadership

"If people are too intimidated or too reluctant to help their leaders lead, their leaders will fail," says Michael Useem, the author of a new book about how you can take control -- even when you're not in command.READ»

FIG LEAP

This commentary outlines specific areas for investment and valuation in the financial investment group sector.READ»

50 Ways to Green Your Business

Half-a-hundred options for cleaning up your business, from the universal (catch that rainwater!) to the specific (lose the plastic bowls!). Mix, match--join in.READ»

Reading List: The New Capitalists

Ordinary investors are holding more sway, write the authors of The New Capitalists.READ»

Fast Talk: Advertising Architects

Buzz-worthy campaigns turn ad-agency creatives into the cool kids of the moment. But behind every copywriter-cum--rock star is a courageous client. Meet the people who had the guts to greenlight this past year's boldest advertising.READ»

GE Co-Invests $10 Million In Household Wind Power

Instead of waiting (and paying) for giant solar farms and mega-scale transmission lines to be built, what if you could start generating your own clean energy tomorrow, for 60 percent below retail prices?READ»

The Leading Edge - Goodbye GE, hello Google

One of Freud’s dictums was: “Where id is, let ego be.” In essence, replace your runaway impulses (Id) with a more reason/reality driven (Ego) approach to life. Not a bad guide to live by, given the times of Freud and the ...READ»

Jeff Immelt and managing in the 21st century

When Jeff Immelt took over as CEO of GE, he followed a tough act. Jack Welch had been the legendary CEO of GE for some 20 years, setting high marks for earnings growth and establishing a reputation for grooming the best managers. ...READ»

GE's New Healthymagination Campaign Will Boost EMR Sales

Announced on May 7, 2009, the General Electric blitz has put Obama-era Healthcare initiatives front and center – and EMR software is an integral part of the mix.READ»

GE Shows Off Smart Grid-Aware Appliances [video]

The buzz about GE's Smart Appliances--microwaves, oven ranges, hot water heaters and dryers equipped with smart grid communication technology--has been building for months. Some of the appliances go into a low power mode when ...READ»

All Systems Go

How General Electric's jet-engine division in Ohio is boosting the company's business in China. A case study in advanced global strategy.READ»

• China's Airport Boom