Amidst the financial crisis, he had to make a very sweet deal with Berkshire Hathaway to grab some cash (in exchange for preferred shares) in order to keep GE out of bankruptcy court.
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Immelt agrees GE must figure out how to make windmills stand on their own.
In 1989 Dow's materials-engineering center beat out GE for the chance to build, using plastics, a riding lawn mower for John Deere.
Comcast had bought a majority stake in the television and movie company in January 2011 and was expected to buy out GE's remaining stake over the next several years.
The microwave, also GE Monogram, sputtered out during Thanksgiving but was repaired easily under warranty.
Little also pointed out that GE has significant experience in wind energy, solar, and in nuclear power.
Not to be left out, GE Capital struck a deal in February with Toho Mutual Life Insurance.
GE, he points out, until the deal is signed and gets regulatory approval, which could take many months.
GE, it turns out, the Genworth operations were making a return on equity of only 9%, half what good companies manage and less than the 12% earned by the typical life insurer.
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GE's sales force out of business.
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So GE is determined to come out with a battery system that will store energy, but the investment costs are enormous as it needs to develop a massive storage system for a huge global customer base, says Wlliam Schmitz, president and CEO of WindTamer (WNDT), a maker of wind power generators utilizing proprietary technology for elecrtric generation and energy management.
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And a number of exhibitors who sat last year's show out, such as GE Appliances, were back in force.
Eventually the U.S. will come around, too, since it must replace as much as 50 gigawatts of existing nuclear power by midcentury. (One very large power plant produces a gigawatt.) "Describe to me how it works by 2040 if you don't have new nuclear plants built, " says John Rice, the 48-year-old vice chairman, who started out with Immelt in GE's plastics division.
There were plenty of opinions as the reputation management pundits came out of the woodwork as GE is of course one of the most high profile American companies.
But the crucial element may be that, in contracting manufacturing out to Chinese factories, GE lost control over, and input into, the foundation of the manufacturing process, the assembly line.
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As second-in-command under GE's Jack Welch in the 1980s, Bossidy played a big part in carrying out Welch's policy of dumping any business in which GE could not achieve either first or second place.
This website was born out of the genetic engineering (GE) labeling movement, and provides up to date information about what is going on in the campaign to mandate companies to include GE information on food.
He is out to convince big resinmakers like GE and Dow Chemical to let Great Lakes do the dirty work of blending their color, heat and light requirements into one pellet they can then add to polypropylene for car bumpers.
The company GE Geospatial, an aerial photography company, carries out one small piece of this program.
So GE brags about the terabyte of data that flows out of a single jet engine on a single cross-country flight.
Besides sticking its hand out in Washington for higher reimbursement rates, GE is doing all it can to keep existing customers.
The 35% federal corporate tax rate is now the highest in the industrial world, leading companies to locate their most profitable operations outside the U.S. Big multi-national corporations such as GE have secured enough special deductions and tax credits to zero out their U.S. tax liabilities on their existing operations even as the high marginal rate encourages them to expand overseas.
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Since the 1950s when computers came out, the newest technology went to large companies like GE, Metlife that paid for expensive products, but now that technology goes to consumers first, Andreessen said.
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Disney 's (nyse: DIS - news - people ) ABC has seven new hour-long dramas, and, unlike General Electric 's (nyse: GE - news - people ) NBC, which rolled out its comedy-less slate yesterday, four new comedies.
As General Electric's second-in-command under Jack Welch in the 1980s, Bossidy played a big part in carrying out Welch's policy of dumping any business in which GE could not achieve either first or second place.
Our middle-of-the-road GE Monogram oven gets gushing reviews and has magical racks that glide in and out.
The almost identical disaster scenario has played out over sugar beets. 95% of which is from GE seeds.
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