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skip to main contentskip to secondary navigationGE is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to increase solar power across the grid from the utility to homes and commercial properties.
Crotonville is at the heart of what may be GE's most important production line: the one for leaders. Article reflects on leadership development within GE.
Jeff Immelt spoke to Leslie Stahl about GE's global business and jobs and economic recovery in the United States. They travelled to GE locations in the U.S. and Brazil for the discussion.
GE invited women to share their breast cancer experiences starting with mammography via a four-week design installation in New York City's SoHo neighborhood. This installation brings together collaborators from the medical, design, non-profit and corporate worlds to explore new and inventive approaches to mammography and breast cancer care.
GE businesses in Brazil are set to grow more than 30% this year and don't seem to be slowing despite volatility in other parts of the world.
The research and development center for all of GE's businesses, GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York, is one of the largest industrial research organizations anywhere in the world.
GE Aviation, a unit of the General Electric Co., plans to spend $56 million to build a second manufacturing plant in Mississippi to produce advanced composite components for aircraft engines and systems.
GE's second entry in the race for EV charger marketshare - a version of the GE WattStation designed for home use - is scheduled to hit the shelves of five Lowe's stores in California with a broader rollout to 60 of the chain's retail sites in September.
GE and the International Olympic Committee extended their partnership to 2020.
GE announced $63 million of investments in 10 home energy companies as part of its ecomagination Challenge. The initiative, announced last July, is a $200 million commitment to invest and develop partnerships with promising clean technology start-ups.
Everyone, it seems, is going green — or thinking about it. "We see an incredible challenge and opportunity," says Mark Vachon, vice president of General Electric's Ecomagination business strategy.
GE released its annual healthymagination report today. Since the launch in 2009, GE introduced almost half the new products targeted in its six-year, $6 billion health-care improvement strategy after spending about a third of the development budget.
GE Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt said in a Mar. 31 speech in Washington that "we wanted to make sure that we had a great manufacturing footprint."
In a move that could shake up the American solar industry, General Electric announced that it will build the nation's largest photovoltaic panel factory, with the goal of becoming a major player in the market.
GE announced the launch of the Optima* MR430s, a new specialty scanner with breakthrough technology that delivers precise imaging with exceptional comfort and the 1.5T image quality radiologists require.
GE becomes the Official Medical Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Sponsor and Official Electronic Medical Records Management Solutions Sponsor of the PGA TOUR, Champions Tour and Nationwide Tour.
Encouraged by the success of its $200 million Ecomagination Challenge GE is turning up the heat on the hunt for innovative home energy solutions.
Mr. Obama said he wanted the council to "focus its work on finding new ways to encourage the private sector to hire and invest in American competitiveness."
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