Expert Perspectives Q&A with John Flannery, India CEO
How important is India to GE, and how can India’s place in GE’s plans be compared to its focus on the U.S. and China? GE has been in India for more than a century, with our first investments being in hydro power back in 1902. Our growth here has...
Milestones in Citizenship
One cannot effectively plan for the future without looking at our evolution and the lessons from the past. Dating back to 1999, this timeline outlines milestones in the citizenship field in areas including reporting, standards, human rights...
Overview of Challenges & Value
GE is an advanced technology, services and finance company taking on the world’s toughest challenges by finding ways to respond that create value. GE businesses depend on the infrastructure, skills and institutions of stable prosperous...
Features Creating Sustainable Value for Shareowners
Responsibility to Shareowners GE is one of the most widely held stocks in the world. Ownership of the Company can and does benefit millions of people through flows of dividends and capital benefits, both to individual shareowners and through such...
Action Points Sustainable Cities, Sustainable Solutions
The rapid urbanization that has characterized the past century, combined with exponential growth of the world’s population, is placing an increasing strain on the planet’s valuable resources. These complex problems, along with climate...
Action Points Oil Sands and Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is all about leveraging unique material properties that exist at the smallest scales. A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter—by comparison, a sheet of paper is about 100,000 nanometers thick. Researchers get excited about...
Expert Perspectives State of Corporate Social Responsibility: Creating Tomorrow’s Markets
The world is full of unsatisfactory equilibriums that need to be disrupted. Four billion people live in poverty, with huge unmet needs. Climate change has been described as the world’s biggest market failure. Public services in healthcare and...
Action Points Continuing to Reduce the Environmental Impact of Medical Products
Imagine a world where technology engineering looks at the environmental impact of each product. As GE celebrates the 5-year anniversary of our ecomagination initiative, GE Healthcare has committed to reduce the average energy consumption of new...
Employee Perspectives The Challenge & Opportunity of Natural Gas
We’re living and working in unprecedented times. Unemployment is still high in a shaky economy, global political unrest is reported daily and natural disasters are wiping out entire regions. Simultaneously, industries and communities are...
Action Points Treasure Hunts
At more than 300 sites around the world, GE employees have conducted “Treasure Hunts.” An Energy Treasure Hunt is a process leveraged from lean manufacturing, developed by Toyota and refined by GE, designed to identify projects and...
Smart Grid
With the Smart Grid, energy is more intelligent than ever. Now we can manage electricity more...
Jeff Immelt at Notre Dame
GE CEO Jeff Immelt joins a Notre Dame hosted panel on sustainable energy and speaks about a...
Jeff Immelt at Notre Dame 2
GE CEO Jeff Immelt joins a prominent panel discussing sustainability, technical innovation, and...
Alternative Green Energy Solutions
John Krenicki, President & CEO, GE Energy Infrastructure, talks about GE's work on diverse...
Capture the Wind Tour
GE's Capture the Wind tour gets underway as a giant wind blade becomes a traveling green energy...
Wind energy equals jobs
South Dakota Lt. Governor Dennis Daugaard explains the huge impact that green energy jobs are...
Signing wind turbine blades
GE reporter-at-large, Vivek Kemp, and multimedia producer, Ryan McAfee, along with approximately...
Congress plugs into Smart Grid
GE Energy Vice President Bob Gilligan talks about his Congressional testimony on February 25, 2009.
GE and the Environmental Defense Fund
See how GE and the Environmental Defense Fund helped Orlando's famed stadium identify ways to cut...
Ecomagination Challenge Winners – Full Replay
GE names ecomagination Challenge winners; invests in leading power grid tech companies. Full replay
Ecomagination Challenge Winners – Powering the Grid 2
GE names ecomagination Challenge winners; invests in leading power grid tech companies.
Ecomagination Challenge: None of Us are as Powerful as All of Us.
Ecomagination Challenge: None of Us are as Powerful as All of Us.
Consumer Innovation Award Winners
As part of the Ecomagination Challenge : Power the Grid, the Consumer Innovation Award was...
Ecomagination Challenge – full
Watch a replay of the full July 13 ecomagination program including Jeff Immelt's talk on GE's new...
Solar panels at GE
GE headquarters uses GE solar panels to generate electricity, part of more than $2 billion GE has...
Solar-powered water filtration in Haiti
Mark Tchelistcheff of www.openfilms.net documents the installation of a solar-powered water...
GE and Google smart grid
GE and Google: plug into the smart grid.
Clean Technology Week in China
Mark Norbom, President and CEO of GE in Greater China, describes the impact that an array of new...
Canada’s Dokie Wind Project
See how GE and Plutonic Power are building a wind farm that can power 34,000 homes.
Canada’s Toba Hydroelectric Project
See how GE and Plutonic Power are building a run-of-river energy project in British Columbia that...
GE Schools Illumination Program in Hungary
GE's Schools Illumination Programme in Hungary has won a Sustainable Energy award from the EU...
Solar Technology shines
See how GE's labs in New York, Munich, Shanghai and Bangalore are working together on thin film...
Cleaner Coal Technology
GE researcher Mike Bowman takes us inside the cleaner coal research lab. GE's cleaner coal...
Building a smarter grid
GE and OG&E are working together to build a smarter grid in Oklahoma City. For 6,600 participants...
World Future Energy Summit – Steve Fludder
Vice president of ecomagination, Steve Fludder, talks about GEs ecomagination initiative in the...
DHG – healthcare and donations in Cambodia
n October 2009, we commissioned the first 3 hospital upgrade projects in Cambodia, providing...
Clean Energy: Hydroelectric Power
Plutonic Power Corporation in British Columbia and GE have submitted two bids for Canada's largest...
Solar Technology – Patent Pending
From the roof of GE's Global Research Center, Vlatko Vlatkovic, our head of renewable energy...
Making the power grid smarter
With the right tools and technologies, a utility's customers can make smarter decisions about how...
Cleaner Power
Latrina Folk from GE Energy explains how GE can help reduce emissions as electricity demand...
Saving Energy at Roosevelt Hospital
As part of a partnership with the Environmental Defense Fund, GE teams helped NYC's Roosevelt...
LA Universal Studios Backstage Works To Save Money
Want to make billions in the U.S. entertainment industry? Follow the example of one of America's...
GE Team Investigates Carbon Footprint of Healthcare Plant
Using a method developed by Toyota, a GE team goes on an energy Treasure Hunt to find energy and...
GE Citizenship Featured on Telemundo’s “Al Rojo Vivo” Nov. 28, 2008
Telemundo reports about how Developing Health Globally™, GE's corporate citizenship signature...
GE Citizenship Featured on Telemundo’s “Al Rojo Vivo” Nov. 27, 2008
Telemundo reports about how Developing Health Globally™, GE's corporate citizenship signature...
Developing Healthcare Globally: Latin America
GE’s signature healthcare program in Latin America aims to improve healthcare delivery for some...
Developing Healthcare Globally: Africa
Discover how GE is working to improve healthcare to places in need, including rural Africa...