Where Will the Internet of Cars Take Us?
The recent Consumer Electronics Show served as a showroom for the connected car, showing how connectivity taking the auto experience down a similar path paved by the Internet of Things for smart homes...
View ArticleWhy the Auto Show Will Be a Tech Show by 2020
We are on our way to a hydrogen-powered society.Innovation and technology advances transform the way we live, work and interact with the world around us. Those advances were on full display at the...
View ArticleHow Ebola Impacts Economic Health: CDC's Tom Frieden Explains
CDC leader explains how the Ebola epidemic in West Africa — the largest in history — is reminder of the important connection between health and economic security.The recent outbreak of Ebola in West...
View Article6 Ways 2015 Will Be a Landmark Year for Manufacturing
Transformative changes brought on by Big Data, the Internet of Things and the natural gas boom point to a U.S. manufacturing resurgence.The face of manufacturing in America has undergone more woeful...
View ArticleMakers Playground — Stimulating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs in Brussels
As Europe’s youth search for employment and acquiring the skills of the future, GE Garages provides pop-up learning lab on modern manufacturing.There’s a lot of buzz — and even more noise and smell —...
View ArticleIt’s Not About Gender Parity, It’s About Good Business
Closing the global gender gap will take another eight decades at this rate. We can’t afford to wait that long.This is not an article about gender parity. It’s about running a good business and making a...
View ArticleIndustrial Wearables — A Fashion Statement on the Future of Work
Smart gloves and glasses, in tandem with the Industrial Internet, hold the potential to transform how workers interact with machines.Industrial wearables have the ability to change the way a baggage...
View ArticleWhy the Debate Over the Trans-Pacific Partnership is Misguided
Focus instead on building the skills to take advantage of all it offers.The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is an ambitious, 21st century trade agreement that the United States is negotiating with 11...
View ArticleHow To Use Data To Unlock Overseas Markets
All sorts of data is generated by the U.S. government that could help small businesses tap into overseas markets. Here’s how to turn that information into sales.Expanding overseas to sell your goods...
View ArticleNot Your Dad’s Trade Deals
Since NAFTA, U.S. trade agreements have improved the U.S. balance of trade in goods with 13 out of the 17 countries involved. That bodes well for higher-standard deals like the Trans-Pacific...
View ArticleWhy the Export-Import Bank Is a Main Street, Not a Washington, Institution
On real “Main Streets” across America, from Idaho to California to Maine, the Ex-Im Bank supports U.S. jobs.On Main Streets across America, small businesses are a critical source of economic growth and...
View ArticleHow U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Depend on Trade Agreements
U.S. factory workers see brighter prospects, higher pay thanks to trade.Critics of trade in the United States often point to shrinking factory employment over the past four decades as proof that free...
View ArticleThe Jobs Bank — How the Export-Import Bank Supports Job Creation Across America
By providing financing for exports when private banks won’t, the Export-Import Bank helps small businesses in every state reach overseas customers. That means higher-paying jobs at home.The...
View ArticleTo Grow Manufacturing In America, Look Beyond Our Borders
The Ex-Im Bank and Trade Promotion Authority are essential for U.S. global competitiveness. Congress and the administration need to recognize it, and act.The more than 256,000 manufacturers in the...
View ArticleThe Export-Import Bank Isn’t a Problem – It’s a Solution
The Ex-Im Bank is a crucial tool to ensure small businesses can compete to sell their goods overseas, supporting high-paying jobs. Reauthorization should be a no-brainer.Of all the problems confronting...
View ArticleLet’s Take a Bipartisan Path to Economic Growth — With Trade
Trade Promotion Authority will clear the way for job-creating trade agreements.There is a bipartisan way forward on many of the challenges our country is facing, including improving our economy,...
View ArticleWhen Energy Is Distributed, Everyone Benefits
Distributed power provides the reliable, low-cost electricity needed to support economic growth regardless of weather or infrastructure conditions. Utilities should embrace its potential.In today’s...
View ArticleHow to Beat OPEC: Take the Highway to Natural Gas-Powered Trucking
With OPEC defending its oil market share, the U.S. should lock in the advantages of a healthy natural gas sector. Piloting corridors for LNG-fueled trucking would be a promising start.The United States...
View ArticleReimagining the 10-K — Disclosure as a Tool for Good Governance
With a graphic, layered, and more forward-looking approach to the annual SEC filing, GE is seeking to create a more engaging, effective form of disclosure for its shareholders.Compared to the release...
View ArticleMarketing to Millennials — Coming of Age, Delayed
Millennial consumer habits don’t represent a cultural change, as much as a time shift.Concocting the special sauce for marketing to Millennials has become a major preoccupation of professionals across...
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