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- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
two reasons. First, they are systematically lower than the returns of American outbound FDI. By way of example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
results of choices we made. GE Healthcare employees assemble magnetic-resonance imaging machines in Beijing. In 2011, the highly global company moved its x-ray unit headquarters staff to China-a major, rapidly growing market. Q: The US... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
Dreamliner (as a differentiating ingredient for early adopter airlines). GE and Microsoft are hybrid brands with some direct-to-consumer sales that have helped to build the reputations of what are primarily B2B firms. But these... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
and then re-engaged to keep change moving. The practical model shows how spokes are related and reinforce one another and also presents a logical order for connecting them. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312083-PDF-ENG Healthymagination at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
reasonable prices are in demand. One example: In health care, GE is producing a computerized tomography (CT) scan machine that is functional without a lot of bells and whistles. It was designed originally for the Chinese market where... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
documents adopted by companies their compliance leaders admired, such as GE and Microsoft, they saw models that focused on specific steps employees should take when faced with difficult decisions. One result: Those examples inspired... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
that stretch, by itself, is not a useful management concept. Nishant Miglani pointed out that "as a complement to stretch, GE also had this notion of the 'boundaryless organization' ..." Matthew Tuttle suggested that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
outsourcing operation of General Electric and was the largest outsourcing operation in India. In 2005 GE decided to partially divest this subsidiary to a number of private equity players. By 2007, the firm was named Genpact and was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
variety of industries use this approach. Bush Boake Allen (BBA), a global supplier of specialty flavors to companies like Nestlé, has built a tool kit that enables its customers to develop their own flavors, which BBA then manufactures. In the materials field, View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce strategic resource is. When it values a mature, capital-intensive... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
create value for shareholders. This month, for example, when Trian Partners, under the leadership of cofounder and CEO Nelson Peltz, wanted to tell investors why GE was an undervalued company, it posted an 81-page analysis online for... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
billion in sales, many believed that a more disciplined approach to operations would be important for future growth. As a result, the company hired Bob Nardelli, a former GE executive, to lead the change. When Bob Nardelli became the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
decide which segments to focus on. In fact, the customer is too important to follow the practice of calling everyone a customer. As managers at GE have stated, "Customers are seen for what they are—the lifeblood of a company.... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
less than 1 percent of U.S. GDP. Some U.S. multinationals might be exposed to a fall in their overseas earnings. GE stock was down 20 percent for a time on Black Monday, though Apple, for example, recently said that business in China... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
merger negotiations and antitrust consultations differently—and Honeywell might well be a part of GE today. Lapses in recognition occur when leaders remain oblivious to an emerging threat or problem—a lack of attention that can plague... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
merely a replay of the past, specifically for companies like Kodak, Xerox, and GM that have failed before at transforming themselves. These companies are in a precarious position. They must find ways, as only GE has successfully done, to... View Details
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
someone who doesn't know a lot about the business. Is that another problem? A: Well, there are two different approaches. What's interesting is sometimes people go for great CEOs who come from what are called CEO factories, like GE or... View Details
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne