General Electric - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 1980 (Revised August 1986)
Case

General Electric vs. Westinghouse in Large Turbine Generators (A)

Describes the U.S. large turbine generator industry in early 1963, a period of severe price cutting and depressed industry conditions. Presents data to allow a structural analysis of the industry and an analysis of the strategies of the major players since 1946. The... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Machinery and Machining; Cost Management; Price; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Industry Structures; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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January 1980 (Revised May 1980)
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General Electric vs. Westinghouse in Large Turbine Generators (B)

By: Michael E. Porter

Supplements the (A) case. Designed as an in-class handout. View Details

Keywords: Energy Generation; Industrial Products Industry

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January 1980
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General Electric vs. Westinghouse in Large Turbine Generators (C)

By: Michael E. Porter

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; United States

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April 1971 (Revised April 1983)
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General Electric Co.--1970

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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Human Capital and the Managerial Revolution in the United States: Evidence from General Electric

By: Tom Nicholas

This paper estimates the returns to human capital accumulation during the first era of mega-firms in the United States by linking employees at General Electric—a canonical enterprise associated with the “visible hand” of managerial hierarchies—to the 1940 census. I... View Details

Keywords: Returns To Education; Management Practices; Hierarchies; Management Practices and Processes; Rank and Position; Human Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Business History; United States