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This Powerful Group of Companies is Starting to Feel Optimistic About Growth

April 29, 2014

Executives running a cohort of companies that employ more than 44 million Americans, a third of the U.S. workforce, are growing optimistic about their business prospects and continued hiring, according to the latest quarterly survey of the sector, called the Middle Market Indicator.

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GE Power & Water

Wind, Solar and Other Renewables Added 40 Percent of All New U.S. Power Capacity Last Year. Here’s What Greased the Wheels

April 24, 2014
Last spring, the global renewable energy company Invenergy announced that it would install the first three “intelligent” wind turbines equipped with storage batteries and connected to the Industrial Internet at the Goldthwaite wind farm in Central Texas.
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State of Business: Simplify or Ossify

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
March 26, 2014
A few months ago, I visited one of our rail customers to discuss our locomotives. At their request, I spoke to a group of leaders and managers in the transportation industry. I have addressed thousands of customers in my career but something has changed.
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Obstacle Course: Key Business Segment Keeps Adding Jobs, Despite Hurdles

February 04, 2014

Mid-size American companies grew their revenues five times faster than their much larger counterparts in the S&P 500 and posted a five percent revenue growth in 2013, according to the latest survey of the business segment. They also blew past both smaller and larger companies in hiring, creating 1.2 million jobs last year, and plan to add another million in 2014. But healthcare costs remain the most challenging issue. They have been the top concern for more than a year.

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Five Reasons Expanding Apprenticeships Will Benefit Millennials

Sarah Ayres Steinberg Center For American Progress
January 02, 2014
Apprenticeships might sound as if they come straight out of the Middle Ages, but there is nothing medieval about the wage premiums and career opportunities that young Americans can gain from them.
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Jeffrey R. Immelt: Riding the Productivity Waves to Growth

Jeffrey R Immelt GE
February 07, 2013
America can turn a slow recovery into a strong comeback, one that grows our economy and firmly reestablishes our country as a powerhouse of ideas and production. One of the keys — and what will determine the winners and losers of an exciting new era — is our willingness and ability to lead the next “big waves” of productivity.
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Get a Load of This: The Humble Beginnings of the Bobcat Company

March 12, 2012
Eddie Velo was a Minnesota turkey farmer with a big headache. His birds produced a lot of manure, tons of it. Workers used pitchforks to clear the stuff out of Velo’s barns, but few could keep at it for very long. He needed a machine that could do the job.
Two local entrepreneurial blacksmiths, brothers Cyril and Louis Keller, said they would help. They made him a light and agile loader that could get around poles and in and out of corners. It did the trick, and a lot more.
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