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 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...

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...

EHS Training Units Completed
GE tracks completion of the number of regulatory-required training classes each employee must attend for the calendar year (a unit is one course for one person). More than 2 million units of training were completed in 2010, with more than 627,000...

Human Rights Training
In 2010 we produced a 20-minute training video to educate business leaders on human rights in business contexts, advise why human rights are important to the Company, identify the legal and reputational risks, and call them to action on steps they...

Supplier Program Description
Compliance with our supplier program is mandatory under GE’s Integrity program and is a precondition to receiving an order from GE. Supply Chain Due Diligence GE generally obtains contractual commitments from goods suppliers to comply with GE’s...

Leadership Engagement
For more than 130 years, GE has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to performance with integrity. At the same time that we have expanded into new businesses and new regions and built a great record of sustained growth, we have also built a...

Customer Training & Engagement
GE continually engages customers in group training programs and summits, using the same tools, processes and facilities the Company uses with its own employees. Leveraging the experience and expertise of its customers, GE can better understand their...

Building a Customer Focus
Over the past five years, GE has focused on becoming a more customer-centric and market-facing organization. To achieve this shift, we have developed new tools, processes and programs to engage our customers in the product development cycle...

Engaging on Human Rights
It is one thing to support human rights in principle, but for a global organization like GE, only actions will ensure the respect of human rights and promotion of them throughout business operations, both in interactions with external stakeholders...