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One More Time: New Year Eve’s Saudi Power Deal Caps Off Historic 2015 For GE
GE finished a historic year of massive deals with one more win before the ball dropped in New York’s Times Square. On the last day of the year, the company announced a landmark power contract with the...
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Gary Hufbauer and Tyler Moran: 2016 — A Good Year to Ace the Trade Agenda
With momentum building on the trade front despite ongoing concerns about globalization, here’s how leaders can earn an A in trade. The trade horizon unexpectedly brightened last year, including in the...
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Best Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet...
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The Connector: Meet Joe Salvo, the Man from Digital Future
When Joe Salvo bought his house in Schenectady, New York, in 1986, he purchased a piece of history. GE built it in 1905, not long after Thomas Edison opened the company’s research labs in the city and...
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The Future Hunters: These 4 Trends Will Transform The Digital Frontier in 2016
From robotics and artificial intelligence to virtual reality, digital innovation is poised to accelerate this year. Change has always been a constant, but it is now happening faster than ever before....
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Let It Blow: How Brazilian Wind Farms Benefit From GE’s Largest Acquisition
South America’s vast Pampas stretch over three countries and cover an area larger than France. Farmers in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil have long discovered the appeal of the flat and fertile lowlands....
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Mind The Gap: Here’s How You Take On A Power Crisis The Size Of A Continent
One easy way to see Africa’s power problem is by looking at a picture of the Earth from space at night. While other inhabited regions of the world glow and sparkle like jewels in a black velvet display...
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Mogens Lykketoft: 2015 Saw Incredible Global Breakthroughs — Now We Need to...
Deadly conflicts, horrific terrorist attacks and a worsening global humanitarian crisis have dominated 2015. Yet this year also saw a number of major international breakthroughs, most recently with the...
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These New Warships Will Be So Quiet, They Can Sneak Up On Submarines
There’s hardly a more storied sea power than the British Royal Navy. Its fleet destroyed the Spanish Armada, beat Napoleon at Trafalgar and sunk the Bismarck and the Tirpitz, Germany’s greatest World...
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Jim Carroll: 3 Ways Energy Innovation Will Heat Up in 2016
From advances in renewables to data-driven efficiencies and empowered consumers, 2016 offers the opportunity to shape the future of energy. In my view, 2016 will prove to be a watershed year when it...
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Dr. Hope And The OMG Microscope: These Scientists Are Seeking To Cure HIV And...
In a laboratory in Chicago, a doctor called Hope is hunting the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS with a microscope so powerful that scientists call it the OMG microscope.Thomas Hope...
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Exploring the Brain’s Potential — Interview with Jon Sigurdsson of Össur
Having created the first mind-controlled Bionic prosthetic leg, the head of Icelandic firm Össur discusses the promise — and challenges — of brain research. One of the most exciting frontiers of...
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Ultra Super Critical: These Badass Machines Help Make 30 Percent Of The...
When GE acquired Alstom’s power and grid business last fall, it bought some of world’s largest wind and water turbines, “ultra-super-critical” steam turbines – that’s their real name – massive...
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From Bloodstream To Mainstream: New Cell Therapy Center Seeks To...
Emily Whitehead was just 5 years old when she fell ill with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer. Most kids beat the disease within two years, but Emily relapsed twice...
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GE Will Open New AI, Robotics, and Product Management Labs In New York
GE will open three advanced technology labs at its global research headquarters in Niskayuna, New York. One lab will focus on artificial intelligence and robotics. The other two will lead the...
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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking But Keep On Ticking
Every day is a bad day for flying if you hang out with Brian DeBruin. DeBruin runs GE Aviation’s jet engine test operations site in Peebles, Ohio, and his job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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James Stewart: Can We Afford to Pay for the World’s Infrastructure Needs? We...
Paying the word’s infrastructure needs is daunting, which is why we need real leadership and innovative thinking. Unfathomably big numbers can be exhausting. When it comes to infrastructure, there’s...
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Boston Bound: GE Will Move Its Headquarters to Massachusetts
Seeking Boston’s “diverse and technologically-fluent” talent, GE said it would move its corporate headquarters to the Massachusetts capital from Connecticut, where it’s been based for four decades....
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From Appliances To Apps: GE To Sell Its Appliances Business To Haier For $5.4...
GE said this morning it would sell its Appliances business to Haier for $5.4 billion. The company will also enter into a strategic partnership with the Asian white goods manufacturer to work on...
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Klaus Schwab: The 4th Industrial Revolution: What It Means, How to Respond
As the lines blur between the physical and digital, we need to ensure the technological revolution has a positive impact on society. We stand on the brink of a technological revolution that will...
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