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3 Responsibilities For Men And Women To Close The Gender Gap

Sue Siegel
October 03, 2016

How do you talk about the gender gap with male colleagues and our children? Sue Siegel, CEO of GE Ventures, discusses our shared responsibility to close the gender gap -- and her biggest professional mistake. The following column is based on her recent remarks during the Babson Breakaway Challenge, the first and only competition to promote gender parity in the VC industry.

 

 
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Robotics

Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages

April 11, 2016
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a poet, thought of robota, the Czech word for forced labor, and told Karel to call them robots.
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Magnetic Brain Stimulation for Treating Depression Attracts GE Investment

April 27, 2015
There are millions of Americans who battle depression every year and many of them fail to respond to pills and other standard treatments or suffer from side effects. “This group of patients often lives in agony, but we thought there must be another way to treat depression,” says Dr. Mark Demitrack, chief medical officer of Neuronetics. “What if you could stimulate the brain from the outside, without drugs, and make it heal?”
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Drone Brain Maker Airware Gets a Lift as GE Climbs on Board

April 19, 2015
Last November, when GE invested in the drone technology company Airware, Alex Tepper, managing director at GE Ventures, said his company wanted to be part of the commercial drone space and “help it grow.”
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Shooting Disease with Silver Bullets: GE Ventures Leader Joins U.S. Precision Medicine Program

April 02, 2015
Oncologist Brian Druker has done something few cancer researchers aim for: he increased the number of people living with cancer.
In the 1990s, Dr. Druker, who does research at Oregon Health & Science University, was part of a Novartis team that helped develop Gleevec, a “miracle drug” that soundly defeated a previously deadly type of blood cancer called chronic myeloid leukemia, or CML.
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Bringing Back the Bling: New Process Recovers Precious Platinum from “Smut”

March 31, 2015
How rare is platinum? Imagine that making an ounce of it is so difficult that even exploding stars called supernovae, the crucibles whose high energies forge most chemical elements, can’t do it. In fact, if the latest theories are correct, it takes a collision of two massive neutron stars – objects so dense that a teaspoon of their matter weighs 100 million tons - to manufacture the metal.
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Meet Sawyer, the One-Armed Collaborative Robot

March 24, 2015
Humans have been fascinated with robots and automatons for millennia, or, at least, since Talos, the mythical bronze giant made by the Vulcans that guarded Crete.
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What the Doctor Ordered: New Silicon Valley Startup and Stanford Health Care Will Test Digital Device Claims

March 05, 2015

A century ago, Sigmund Freud developed the radical idea that there is a lot more going on inside our heads that we know. Today, many doctors (and patients) still stick by his groundbreaking theory. But it comes with a problem. As neuroscientist Eric Kandel notes in his book The Age of Insight, “psychoanalysis suffered from a serious weakness: it was not empirical and was therefore not amenable to experimental testing.”

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Backing the Future: Where GE Ventures Sees the Next Big Ideas

January 24, 2015
Like many inventors, Thomas Edison started out as a teenage tinkerer with empty pockets. But his work on improving the telegraph led him to a better stock market ticker and a valuable patent, which he sold for $10,000 to Western Union. He used the money to build a lab in Menlo Park, N.J., and amp up his work with electricity, which attracted venture investments from J.P. Morgan and William Henry Vanderbilt and, eventually, led to GE.
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Someone’s Gotta Do It: This Collaborative Robot Does the Dull Jobs Few Humans Want

January 21, 2015
A manufacturing robot is hardly chummy chap. Set off from its flesh-and-blood coworkers inside a safety cage, its powerful metal biceps easily lift, weld and shape massive machine parts. People can watch it in awe from a distance, but they better keep away or risk injury.
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