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- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
into seven steps: leading change, creating a shared need, shaping a vision, mobilizing commitment, making change last, monitoring progress, and changing systems and structures — and applying it to the problem they've brought with them. Does CAP impact the bottom line?... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
multiplies. Kost: What lessons do you hope executives will take from your book? Teixeira: That the game has changed. In the past, there were a few big companies competing with each other. Coke versus Pepsi. Airbus versus Boeing. GE and... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- What Do You Think?
What’s to Be Done About Performance Reviews?
system works in such efforts. It was given visibility by its adoption at GE several years ago, where managers were forced to identify their direct reports in three categories on a "vitality curve": the top 20 percent, the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
advantage of changes in wind direction. Knowing the economic loss from downtime for each turbine on a wind farm allowed GE to determine a better maintenance schedule for turbines, figuring out which should be fixed first, and utilizing... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
independently from the way it chooses to compete in product markets. Some companies have gone further. Consider the case of GE Medical Systems (GEMS), the division that Jeffrey Immelt built up between 1997 and 2000 before he was tapped to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
the crisis. P&G used its factories to produce masks and hand sanitizer, while Ford and GE Healthcare teamed up to produce respirators and ventilators to help COVID-19 patients and support the stocks of overwhelmed hospital systems.... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
pursue. In the book, we discuss General Electric’s efforts to build their Predix platform. Predix was clearly going to be a multiyear, maybe multibillion dollar investment and one that was increasingly difficult for GE to afford. But it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
and required careful management of capital. GE Capital, Plastics, Medical Systems, and NBC were areas of growth, whether organic or through globalization or acquisitions. By coding our GE managers' resumes,... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
Summing Up It was announced today (November 27) that Jeffrey Immelt, 44-year-old president and CEO of GE Medical Systems, will succeed Jack Welch as CEO of GE. A CNN online news flash stated that he is "a natural leader,"... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- December 2022
- Article
Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities
By: Mark Egan, Shan Ge and Johnny Tang
We examine the variable annuity market to study conflicts of interest and the effect of fiduciary duty in brokerage markets. Insurers typically pay brokers higher commissions for selling more expensive annuities. Our results indicate that sales are four times as... View Details
Keywords: Variable Annuity; Brokers; Fiduciary Duty; Finance; Investment; Insurance; Conflict of Interests; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
Egan, Mark, Shan Ge, and Johnny Tang. "Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty: Evidence from Variable Annuities." Review of Financial Studies 35, no. 12 (December 2022): 5334–5386.
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth in all its regions outside the U.S., including its business in sub-Saharan Africa. In November 2010, John Rice, vice chairman of GE and president and CEO of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Enterprise Risk Management
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 14, 2008 Moderator: Robert S. Kaplan, HBS Faculty Speakers: James Colica, Senior Vice... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
School Case 406-118 General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
GE’s transition from Jack Welch to Jeff Immelt. In 20 years at the helm, Welch had grown shareholder value from $14 billion to $400 billion and Fortune had named him “Manager of the Century.” Immelt, meanwhile, went on to preside over the demise of View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
the GE Foundation sponsors Developing Futures, a program that partners with seven school districts where GE has major operations to upgrade management talent and processes at the district level. Obstacles To... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
business world. At that time, predictive analytics had been applied to the continuing maintenance of everything from CAT scan machines produced by GE to elevators made by Otis. It enabled these firms to sell "up time" rather... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
of its top customers to nontraditional competitors-IBM and SAP on the one hand, big data start-ups on the other-offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
partners, to enable its employees to work only on high value-added activities that yield more than $600,000 in revenues for each of its more than 25,000 employees. (The phenomenon is described in a case, "Cisco Systems: Are You Ready?", that I coauthored... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
Electric. What if GE's board had picked someone other than Jack Welch as CEO? Would the company have performed the same? Most likely, GE would have chosen someone quite similar to Welch had he not accepted the job, Mukunda says. Because... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard