Employee Perspectives Material Sustainability—A Manufacturer’s Challenges and Opportunities
Sustainability debates often center around the access to and availability of hydrocarbons and water. Deservedly so, as these materials are critical to both energy generation and human survival. But in an increasingly competitive global economy...

Action Points Partnering for Innovation and Safeguarding Intellectual Property
This year GE signed a series of deals with Chinese partners focused on clean energy, aviation and rail transportation. In total, the partnerships are expected to create jobs in the U.S. and abroad and capitalize on GE’s advanced technologies to...

Strategic & Business Priorities
GE’s business strategy is focused on the big themes and issues facing the world today, and in the future. These are our shared priorities—areas where GE can contribute to solving societal problems or, conversely, must manage risks. Individual GE...

Products & Services Issues
The process of developing new products—from initial research to reaching the market—never ends at GE. Across businesses, we follow a long-standing and robust process for new product introductions (NPI). While commercial considerations are a...

Features Rhenium Reduction Program: Using Less of a Rare Mineral
Rhenium, one of the rarest elements on earth, is critical to the production of jet engines. For the past 10 years, GE Aviation has been working to lessen its dependence on rare minerals, including rhenium.

Features Bringing World-Class Business Processes to Community Organizations
For GE, nonprofit agency support comes in three forms: financial support, volunteer efforts and intellectual capital, a critical element that is too often overlooked by corporate citizenship programs.