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Their Toolbox Runneth Over: Training Key To Bridging Africa’s Skills Gap
Sustainable economic growth in Africa will only be achieved by providing workforces around the continent with the skills they need to compete in the modern world. Preparing people for work in the...
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The Exponential Revolution: Ray Kurzweil Says The Convergence Of 3D Printing,...
If you’ve recently traveled overseas on a Boeing 777 plane, it’s quite likely that a pair of massive GE90 jet engines powered your ride. More powerful than the rocket that took the first American...
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Getting Current: New Tech Giving More Africans Access To Electricity
Much work remains to be done to ensure reliable electricity access for Africa’s citizens. A number of complications are making it difficult to achieve this UN Sustainable Development Goal. Yet access...
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The LEDs Have Ears: The Company Edison Founded Seeks Interactive Lights In A...
How many inventors does it take to change the future of a lightbulb? GE Lighting partnered with the maker movement magazine Make: and the hardware-hacking community Hackster to find out. Their...
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Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says...
For futurist and X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis, times have been always been a-changin’. But never as much as right now. “We are in a period when extraordinary things are starting to...
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GE On Track for 2016: Company Reaffirms Earnings Outlook And Digital Future
The engines driving GE’s growth are, well, engines. CFM International, the company’s 50-50 joint venture with Safran Aircraft Engines, is set to deliver 100 next-generation LEAP jet engines by the end...
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Video: Eric Ries Talks To Beth Comstock About Entrepreneurship In The Age Of...
Build a management system that embraces entrepreneurship and uncertainty, counsels business management guru Eric Ries in a video interview with GE’s Beth Comstock.We’re in an age when just about every...
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Meet The Martyr Microbe: Killer Drug-Resistant Bacteria Blow Themselves Up To...
A group of scientists were surprised recently when they trained a powerful new microscope on a colony of dangerous drug-resistant bacteria responsible for thousands of hospital-acquired infections and...
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The World I See: Jeff Immelt’s Advice To Win In Time Of Anger About...
Many people around the world are angry about globalization and companies and governments are both to blame for it. But now is not the time to turn inward as a result, GE Chairman & CEO Jeffrey R....
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Danger and Opportunity in the Coming Water Crisis
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, George McGraw discusses how business leaders are beginning to confront risks associated with the growing global water scarcity...
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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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Jeff Immelt: Preparing for What’s Next
On May 20th, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt delivered the keynote at New York University’s Stern Business School convocation. Here are excerpts from his message to the graduates. We’re in a volatile,...
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Brain Changes Signal Alzheimer’s 20 Years Before Symptoms Appear
The world may have just gotten an early warning alarm for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in Sweden have uncovered changes in the brain that foretell the development of the brain disorder up to two...
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How Innovation In Helping Airlines Cut Carbon Emissions
The aviation industry is undertaking a broad set of actions to curtail carbon emissions, says the head of the Aerospace Industries Association. Technology and operations advances, certification...
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The World’s Largest Jet Engine Is Already More Powerful Than America’s First...
Navy pilot Alan Shepard became the first American to reach space on May 5, 1961 — 55 years ago this week. His capsule sat atop the Mercury-Redstone 3 rocket, propelled by a single engine that produced...
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Watch This Water-Guided Laser Machine Cut The Tiniest Holes In The Toughest...
Gas turbine designers like it hot — very hot. The higher the temperature inside their machines, the more work they can extract from the hot air that flows through them. You might remember this from...
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Catch Me If You Can: How Alaska Airlines Flight 870 Intercepted A Total Solar...
Here’s a tricky word problem: A scheduled commercial jet carrying a bellyful of astronomy geeks takes off hours before a total solar eclipse from Alaska’s Anchorage International Airport heading to...
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These Two Massive Vietnam Deals Just Inked During President Obama’s Historic...
Few sights represent Vietnam’s meteoric economic rise better than the cluster of tall business towers remaking the Ho Chi Minh City skyline. The Asian country ranked among the poorest in the world 30...
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The Temple Of Turbine: One of These Wind Turbines Can Power 5,000 Homes
The French port of Saint-Nazaire lines the northern shore of the Loire estuary as the river empties its muddy waters into the Atlantic Ocean. The city may not be large, but the 70,000 people who live...
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Made In The USA: This Map Shows How Americans Benefit From Exports
Large companies often play an unseen but key economic role in their communities. Their suppliers — as well as local grocers, restaurant workers, non-profits and others — feel their pain in bad times,...
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