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Our ongoing “GE Genius Series” is all about meeting the people in GE’s labs who are driving the next big breakthroughs. Recent installments have featured thin film solar materials, sensors that draw on butterfly wings, and paper-thin lighting. Today we meet Swarnagowri Addepalli, a lead scientist at the GE Global [...]

Contributor Karan Bhatia is Vice President and Senior Counsel, GE International Law & Policy.
For a week each January, the World Economic Forum convenes its Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, attended by a broad assortment of global leaders — from government, industry, civil society, media. Some come to network, some [...]

The launch this week of the “GE Global Innovation Barometer” at the World Economic Forum in Davos is shedding new light on the way in which innovation can be a growth driver around the world.
In a post on The Daily Beast today, Beth Comstock, chief marketing officer and senior vice [...]

This week, one of the world’s most prestigious events — the 2011 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) –- will take place in Davos, Switzerland. More than two thousand CEOs, cultural leaders, and world-renowned innovators will meet to hash out new strategies for global cooperation and progress.
This year’s [...]

There were certainly a lot of zeroes in the numbers tied to GE’s globetrotting series of moves this week. From new R&D centers in Brazil and China to a new plan to double U.S. exports, here’s a by-the-numbers snapshot at a busy week focused on global expansion, U.S. jobs, and [...]

In 2001, non-U.S. sales made up 36 percent of GE’s revenue. Flash-forward to 2009 and that number had shot up to 54 percent. To build on that decade of growth — and push it toward a 60 percent target — GE unveiled a new plan today that further decentralizes its [...]

It’s been a busy month for GE in India when it comes to high-tech orders. In a $750 million deal announced today, India’s Reliance Power — the country’s largest private power producer — picked GE Energy to supply turbines that will be used to generate electricity from natural gas. It [...]