Published July 24, 2012
How can we do what we do better? Public-private partnerships (PPPs) that pair companies, the public sector, and civil society offer a powerful answer to this question. Partnerships can enhance true coordination, use resources efficiently, and eliminate duplicated efforts to deal with some of society’s toughest social and environmental challenges. When successful, PPPs can: Balance...
Published July 18, 2012
An introduction to Citizenship at GE, including an overview of the company’s 2010 Citizenship report.
Published July 18, 2012
Over the past few years, companies, NGOs and governments increasingly have been concerned about “conflict minerals” from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the surrounding region. These materials—tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold whose extraction and trade can illegally contribute to armed groups in that region—move from the DRC into global supply chains. They...
Published July 12, 2012
ERIC LOWITT, INDEPENDENT CONSULTANT The era of CEO mandate to maximize shareholder value is giving way to the era of whole-company mandate to maximize stakeholder value. This shift is occurring because all facets of society—citizens, employees, local community activists and shareholders alike—have come to distrust institutions...
Published July 12, 2012
ENGELINA JASPERS, VICE PRESIDENT, HP ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY The path to market for today’s products and services is often circuitous, whether for a personal computer, Smart Grid solutions for utilities, or cockpit controls for the aviation industry. Multinational corporations, such as HP and GE, use global supply chains to source, create and deliver products and services...
Published July 12, 2012
BOB MASSIE, COFOUNDER, GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE Integrated reporting—which merges traditional financial reporting with sustainability reporting—has shot up the global agenda quickly, emerging from relative obscurity two years ago. As cofounder of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), a multistakeholder organization that established sustainability reporting...
Learn about GE's EHS Remedial Activities, including the dredging of the Hudson River.
GE’s 2012 online report highlights progress against commitments on our social, environmental and economic impacts—or, what we call People, Planet and Economy.
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