GE - Publications - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School

18 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Energy; Utilities

05 Dec 2022
What Do You Think?

How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?

years into his tenure, GE became the most valuable company in the world. Gelles and Cohan cite everything from failed acquisitions and strategies to brutal downsizing, forced ranking of managers, a poor environmental record, legal... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Industrial Products; Media & Broadcasting; Medical Devices & Supplies; Manufacturing

December 2007
Article

China + India: The Power of Two

By: Tarun Khanna

China and India are burying the hatchet after four-plus decades of hostility. A few companies from both nations have been quick to gain competitive advantages by viewing the two as symbiotic. If Western corporations fail to do the same, they will lose their competitive... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Economic Growth; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; China; India

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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

students with a background or interest in the aerospace, aviation, or defense industries, including members of the HBS Aerospace and Aviation Club. Liu is chairman of GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS), a unit of View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

data start-ups on the other—offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a multibillion-dollar initiative focused on what it calls the industrial internet: adding digital... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

executive positions take a toll on the health of top managers, often causing cardiovascular and immune-system illnesses. Reconstructing life and death at GE For his research, Nicholas chose to look as far back as the 1930s in examining... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Amy W. Schulman

Amy W. Schulman is an accomplished business leader, widely recognized for growing and stabilizing global businesses, commitment to people, strategic judgment, and efforts to advance women and promote inclusive workplace cultures.

Ms. Schulman joined Harvard... View Details

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Social Innovation

My intellectual agenda addresses this question: How to innovate to solve the world’s toughest challenges? Out of the earth’s population, about 2 billion can afford good products whereas the remaining 5 billion are poor and therefore are nonconsumers.... View Details

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Investors - Entrepreneurship

Aronof Flybridge Capital Partners MBA 1996 Chip Austin i-Hatch Ventures MBA 1990 Mark Bailey Draper Fisher Jurvetson MBA 1985 Rajeev Batra Mayfield Fund MBA 2000 David Baum Stage 1 Ventures MBA 1996 Kent Bennett Bessemer Venture Partners MBA 2008 Leslie Bottorff View Details

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Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

13 Feb 2020
Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

in GE, spurring the company’s stock price to dive from a high of $55 in 2002 to a dismal $12 in early 2020. “People who are this discouraged stop bothering to collaborate with others to improve the organization." Most companies fail in their efforts to transform, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

U.S. Problem Political System Biggest U.S. Problem by Michael E. Porter Jan 20, 2016 Media Mention GE and the turning point for Boston GE and the turning point for Boston by Michael E. Porter Jan 13, 2016... View Details

25 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

(Ghana) PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE GE Healthcare HBS ACTIVITIES Africa Business Club, Tech Club, African American Student Union(AASU), Beyond Dance Club Kam Phillips-Sadler A native of Fort Worth, Texas, Kam Phillips-Sadler was “virtually born... View Details

20 Dec 2017
Lessons from the Classroom

How to Design a Better Customer Experience

ho-hum and quickly forgotten? Stefan Thomke, the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, explains that “the difference has less to do with catchy marketing and everything to do with the design of the experience itself.”... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Entertainment & Recreation

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Past Issues - Alumni

stories, and what’s next for global business from former GE CEO Jeff Immelt Complete Table of Contents June 2021 Alumni Achievement Awards 2021 Recipients of the School’s highest honor talk about the challenges, decision points, and... View Details

24 May 2017
News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

tells it, Ogunlesi was complaining about work to his wife, Amelia, who pointed out that he seemed miserable. That observation inspired him and five others to launch GIP. “None of us had any investing experience,” he says, “but we persuaded Credit Suisse and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2003
News

Larry Murphy

development advisor. He believes that sheer size, coupled with some ill-advised mergers, have hurt creativity and bottom-line performance at big-name media and entertainment companies. “I wouldn’t be surprised,” Murphy says, “to see the industry go through a period of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Accommodation; Hospitality

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

service-based economy, the convergence of industry boundaries, and the knowledge revolution. GE is the headhunters' favorite fishing hole. Out of that has come another project. The big change that is going on now—and what's behind the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

much too slowly, often after most of the damage has been done. Jack Welch has written about the phenomenon of what he calls "jerks" or "bullies" from his own experience. At GE they were referred to as a "Type... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

the Zaltmans hit on a basic problem of leadership and management today? Are there appropriate responses other than the one that GE is pursuing? What is your organization doing to combat the absence of deep thinking in decision-making?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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