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Report: Confidence Rising Among European Small, Mid-Size Businesses

April 07, 2014
Business sentiment across European markets among small- and mid-sized companies is significantly improving, owing to continually strengthening economic conditions and confidence for 2014 prospects, according to a report released today by GE Capital.
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Using ‘Nonobvious’ Sports Training to Gain a Competitive Edge

Stephen Mitroff Duke University
April 04, 2014
Falling just short of obtaining your goals can be excruciatingly painful. While NC State was likely overjoyed to make it into the 2014 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament, SMU was subjected to a special kind of pain as being the last team left out. Likewise, Wichita State played an amazing game in the third round, yet fell just one shot short of beating Kentucky—a moment they will remember for a lifetime.
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The Future of Work Starts Now

Marco Annunziata GE
Stephan Biller GE
April 03, 2014
There is a new industrial revolution taking place all around us, transforming the way we make things and changing what our products can do. Technological advances are poised to accelerate productivity growth and deliver substantial economic benefits. These advances will redefine the competitive landscape and improve our everyday lives through momentous changes in sectors like health care, energy, and transportation.
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Global Move Toward Universal Health Care Kicks Into High Gear

Nellie Bristol Center For Strategic And International Studies
April 02, 2014
While Washington continues to tussle over health coverage expansion for Americans, much of the rest of the world is deliberately and actively pursuing the same goal. Although achieving affordable universal health care will not be quick or easy, there is an increasing global consensus that it is critical to ensuring social and economic stability.

White House Adviser Talks STEM, Maker Movement

April 01, 2014
“I have a really cool job: I work for President Obama and I get to come up with ideas in the area of science and technology that I think he should be paying more attention to,” said Tom Kalil, deputy director for the White House Office of Science and Technology, in his opening remarks to a group of students from TransTech STEM Academy during an event at GE Garages in Washington.
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UK Budget Bolsters Manufacturing Innovation Practices

Mark Elborne GE
March 31, 2014
A number of initiatives were announced in this year’s UK budget that will help maintain the momentum behind British manufacturing innovation, ensuring strong competition with rival markets such as Germany and the U.S., where similar policy support for manufacturing is in place.
Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne described his budget as being focused on the “makers and doers.”
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State of Innovation: The Global Brain Comes Online

Beth Comstock GE
March 28, 2014
We are witnessing the rise of the global brain, when a buzzing hive of knowledge, connectivity, technology and access unites the human and the machine, the physical and the digital, in previously unimaginable ways.
Scientific discovery, information sharing and sheer ingenuity are giving us the ability to hack our human brains to learn, do, be more. At the same time, we can model human intelligence into machines to help us gain insights, increase speed and know more.
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Technology Driving U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance

March 27, 2014
Technological innovation is leading a U.S. manufacturing renaissance that has the potential to bring work back to America for years to come, a new report says. The trend is sustainable if the nation continues to invest in developing advanced manufacturing technologies and a highly skilled workforce.
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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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Women Making Slow Gains in the Oil and Gas Industry

March 25, 2014
Sheryl Sandberg’s Leanin.org recently created a series of images with Getty to introduce more realistic portrayals of women in the 21st century.  They break gender stereotypes and make a strong statement challenging the make-up of traditionally “male” roles such as engineering and physics.
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