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...

Advisory Panel Perspective
Looking Back and Moving Forward As a panel, over the past years we have questioned and debated with GE on issues including human rights, public policy influence, taxation, the rule of law, community investment and climate change. Over this time, we...

Expert Perspectives Sustainable Value Creation
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...

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 Community Building: Lessons from the Business Sector on Nonprofit Leadership Development
The nonprofit sector’s underinvestment in talent development is not news to anyone. All too often, training is categorized as a luxury, rather than a necessity. The limited training dollars that do exist are often spent at the top of the...

Expert Perspectives Integrated Reporting: From Concept to Reality
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...

Expert Advisory Panel
GE’s stakeholder advisory panel supports, challenges and advises the Company on its approach to citizenship. GE first convened an expert advisory panel in 2007 to help to guide and strengthen the Company’s corporate citizenship reporting. The...

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...