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...

Action Points Brazil to Host the Fifth Global Research Center
Brazil entered in recent years into a cycle of economic growth and, at the same time, has become an essential international figure due to its selection as the host of both the World Soccer Cup of 2014 and the Olympic Games of 2016. This positive...

Action Points Innovation in Sewage Treatment
One of the big challenges of the city of Campinas, located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, has been the treatment of sewage. A significant amount is still being discharged into rivers without treatment, jeopardizing the safety of the water...

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...

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 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...

The Spirit & The Letter
GE’s commitment to perform with integrity is instilled in every employee as a nonnegotiable expectation of behavior. This expectation is guided by our integrity policy, The Spirit & The Letter, and is underscored by an extensive system of...

Global Focus on Regulations
Chemical- and product-oriented regulations continue to expand globally, and GE’s EHS, Sourcing, Technology and Research teams continue to expend increasingly significant efforts managing these changing dynamics in conjunction with GE’s evolving...