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GE: A Simpler, More Valuable Digital Industrial Company

October 05, 2015
Today, Trian Partners announced a $2.5 billion investment in GE. Read Jeff Immelt’s statement on the investment.
The investment underscores GE’s focus on improving margins and returns, reducing costs and the size of corporate, returning capital to shareholders and realigning its portfolio.

Here’s a snapshot of GE’s strategy, portfolio actions, and how the company is performing.

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GE Capital Nears $100 Billion in Asset Sales As GE Transforms

October 05, 2015
GE Capital has signed nearly $95 billion in deals to reduce its size as of the end of the third quarter, the company reported on Wednesday. The news comes less than six months after Jeff Immelt told investors that GE would become a more focused digital industrial company and sell most of its banking operations.
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GE to Build New State-Of-The-Art Engine Plant in Canada to Fill Gap from Ex-Im Bank Lapse

Tomas Kellner
September 27, 2015
GE today announced plans to build a new, state-of-the-art "Brilliant Factory" with manufacturing capacity for multiple business lines including Power & Water, Oil & Gas and Transportation in Canada. The plan will create 350 manufacturing jobs in the first phase and will secure access to Canadian Export Finance to fill the gap from the lapse of the U.S. Export-Import Bank.
As part of the plan, GE's Power & Water business will stop making its trademark orange gas engines in Waukesha, Wis.
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Healthcare

How Insights from Building Jet Engines Help Doctors Spot Faulty Insurance Claim Denials

Kristin Kloberdanz
September 25, 2015
It’s an endless headache, a migraine really, for American health organizations and patients alike: claims for treatment denied by insurance companies, causing endless frustrating phone calls to get payment disputes resolved. Now, thanks to an innovation made across multiple GE businesses, relief could be at hand.
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Perspectives

Charles Kenny: Who’s Going to Pay for Sustainable Infrastructure?

Charles Kenny Center For Global Development
September 21, 2015

Everyone agrees on the need for infrastructure investment to drive development, but it will only happen under the right conditions.


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Jet-Powered Bangkok: Efficient Aviation-based Turbines to Start Lighting Thailand Next Year

September 02, 2015
Thailand’s star has been on the rise for quite some time. Within the span of a single generation, social and economic progress has propelled it from a low to upper-middle-income level and the country’s poverty rate has been cut almost in half. But while capital has been pouring in, reliable electricity is still hard to come by.
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Talkin’ ‘Bout Power Generation: How an English Aviation Engineer’s Lofty Perspective Helped GE’s Turbine Business Take Off

August 24, 2015
John Lammas sees his handiwork all over the place. At the airport, he can gaze out at a taxiing plane and think, “I worked on that fan blade.” Passing by a power-generation plant, he can say to himself, “I worked on the turbines inside.”
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Behind GE’s Capital Exit: Hard Work in a Yield-Starved World

July 17, 2015
GE is on target to divest banking assets valued at $100 billion this year, as it focuses on growing its industrial businesses, the company said today during its quarterly earnings announcement.
GE also said that the financial assets the company will retain, like its aircraft financing and leasing arm, GE Capital Aviation Services, boosted second quarter profits by 19 percent compared to the previous year, illustrating the value they bring to GE’s industrial core.
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GE Capital Ends Second Quarter with $68 Billion in Announced Deals, Focuses on Industrial Core

June 30, 2015
GE engineers test an indoor lightning generator for the 1939 - 1940 New York World’s Fair. Image courtesy of the New York Public Library archives and brought to life by Kevin Weir / flux machine.
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Napoleon Missed His Shot at Frequent Flier Miles, But St. Helena, His Faraway Island Exile, is Finally Getting an Airport

June 11, 2015
The only way to reach Saint Helena, a rugged volcanic island in the middle of the South Atlantic slightly larger than Manhattan, is by catching a five-day ride on the Royal Mail Ship St. Helena. The vessel visits the British territory about once every three weeks from Cape Town, but that timetable is about to change.
That’s because St. Helena, a place so remote that European powers permanently exiled Napoleon Bonaparte there in 1815, is finally getting an airport.
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