Decade in Review
The past decade has seen an acceleration in practical action by business. Companies have invested in eco-efficiency to find ways to “do more with less,” they have adopted ambitious environmental and social performance targets and managed them as...

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 Developing Health Globally: Expanding Reach Using GE’s Expertise
In 2010, the GE Developing Health Globally™ (DHG) signature program expanded its reach, continuing to partner with ministries of health to upgrade government-operated health centers and hospitals in Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America. The...

2010 Highlights
Strategy In the past 10 years, GE has repositioned its portfolio through divestitures representing 50% of the Company to focus on key global themes such as energy, water and healthcare, and built strength in the core businesses of providing the...

Healthcare
While GE seeks to impact the healthcare landscape through GE Healthcare and the healthymagination commitment, we also support access to healthcare through philanthropic and capacity-building initiatives. One example is the new Developing Health™...

Healthcare Programs & Benefits
Healthymagination is GE’s commitment to provide better health to more people around the world. That same commitment is experienced by GE employees through HealthAhead, an initiative to create a culture of health at GE. It goes well beyond...

A Letter from Jeff Immelt
In our 2008 citizenship report, I wrote about a “reset world” in which the expectations of peace and unprecedented prosperity with which we started the century had been shattered by volatility in the natural and political world and by the global...