Expert Perspectives Q&A with Bill Cary, COO of GE Capital
What does citizenship mean in the context of GE Capital? 
What do you see as GE Capital’s main citizenship risks and opportunities? For GE Capital, citizenship means delivering consistent financial performance fairly, responsibly and...

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...

Expert Perspectives Are Capital Markets Valuing Sustainable Growth Potential?
Shareholder value depends on the ability of companies to achieve future earnings.Yet too many investors still act as “horseplayers,” using past performance as their guide in placing a bet on future outcomes. Investors did not factor...

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...

Expert Perspectives The World Economy and the United States
Extensive studies at our Peterson Institute for International Economics demonstrate that the U.S. economy is at least $1 trillion per year richer as a result of our country’s integration with the world economy over the past 60 years. This amounts...

Features Faith in Finance: Islamic Banking and Finance in the Middle East
GE has had a presence in the Middle East for over 50 years, supporting countries and companies in critical and high growth industries, such as water reclamation, healthcare, power generation, aerospace, and oil and gas. With economic growth in the...

Expert Perspectives Banking in the Middle East: Islamic Finance for All
If we learned anything from the financial crisis, it is that access to capital and diversification of funding sources is of paramount importance for the survival of a firm. It pays to nurture and develop different pools of investors, and one such...

Creating Sustainable Value
GE’s principles for being a good corporate citizen are simple: make money, make it ethically and make a difference. GE’s approach to citizenship is our business. It is through innovating in products and services to solve the world’s biggest...

A Letter from Sam Nunn
GE’s Board of Directors holds the Company accountable for delivering long-term shareholder value. Both the Board and management recognize that the long-term interests of shareholders are advanced by responsibly addressing the concerns of other...

Performance Against Commitments
Each year we make commitments to help us drive progress and accountability. Below are the commitments we made in 2009. Click through to see the progress made in 2010 and our commitments for 2011.