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To Make the Important Interesting: A Look Back at a Century of Advertising at GE
This fall, TV viewers witnessed an impressive vision of continuity through change.
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Kyle Varble, the 10th Family Member to Work at GE, Is Still Calling His Father (the 5th) for Advice
Although he hesitated to admit it, Kyle Varble was confused. Fresh out of college, he was working in procurement at a manufacturing company, where every day brought some new bit of unfamiliar jargon. One day a supplier told him that the parts Kyle needed wouldn’t arrive for two weeks, because they had to sit on the CMM machine. His mind raced. What does a CMM machine do, and why does it take that long? What does “CMM” even stand for?
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Done Deal: GE Sells Its Appliances Business To Haier For $5.6 Billion
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From Appliances To Apps: GE To Sell Its Appliances Business To Haier For $5.4 Billion
“We are proud of Appliances’ history and performance,” said Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO. “GE Appliances is performing well and there was significant interest from potential buyers, helping drive a good deal which will benefit our investors, customers and employees.”
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Industrial Evolution: GE Details 2014 Results
GE announced its 2014 results this morning, capping a year in which the company launched the biggest acquisition bid in its history for Alstom, took public its consumer lending business, Synchrony, and announced the sale of its Appliances business to Electrolux.
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Cooking Up a Business: Local Motors Made the World's 1st Open-Source Car. It's Now Bringing Co-creation to GE
Jay Rogers, a former marine with an MBA from Harvard, and his friend Jeff Jones were still in business school when they hit upon an idea that could one day remake American manufacturing. In 2008, they started an online car company where people could collaborate on design and build their vehicles in a network of local “microfactories.” They called it Local Motors.
Brave New Home: Designers See Self-Stocking Fridges and Clothes-Folding Washers in Our Future
Brine Science: How Salt and Ingenuity Purify Water for Thousands inAsia and Africa
Early last summer, Sister Mary Ethel Parrot dropped by the office of WaterStep, a Louisville charity fighting waterborne disease around the world, and picked up a pair of tote bags filled with tubing, clamps and other plastic parts. The nun took them on a plane to Uganda, where she had set up a boarding school for girls.
Smart Water: From Uganda to Pakistan, Two GE Volunteers Clean Water with Table Salt and Ingenuity
One day last November, GE engineer Steve Froelicher got a phone call from Sister Mary Ethel Parrott. Sister Mary Ethel is a nun, a teacher and a physicist who helped set up a boarding school for girls in rural Uganda. She needed clean water for her Ugandan pupils and Froelicher, a “senior product architect” who designs washing machines and water heaters at GE Appliances in Louisville, had just the thing for her.
