GE (NYSE: GE) is a diversified technology and financial services company. GE operates in more than 150 countries and employs about 300,000 people worldwide. GE works on things that matter. Finding solutions in energy, health and home, transportation and finance. Building, powering, moving and curing the world. Not just imagining. Doing. GE's approach to corporate citizenship and to business are driven by a common understanding of the role we can play….the best people and the best technologies taking on the toughest global challenges.
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01-16-14
General Electric teamed up with Ashoka Changemakers to find social innovators who are unleashing economic opportunities for women across the MENA region. Women’s economic integration and empowerment is a global issue that has a particular resonance in the Arab world. Women represent just one quar...
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11-11-13
Brazil is now the world’s seventh largest economy and has become the ninth largest energy consumer in the world. And because it’s creating greater energy demand, it’s also adding further strain on the environment. As one of the leading nations on international climate change negotiations, Brazil ...
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10-11-13
“We are committed to learning, sharing and growing with partners and customers in Korea and around the globe,” stresses Chris Khang, President and CEO of GE Korea, emphasizing the importance of responding to the nation’s complex challenges through collaboration.
While Korea’s top...
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09-05-13
The scent of fresh paint filled the air as a handful of GE Lighting employees stroked their paint brushes against the walls of a short-term stay shelter at Fairhill Partners, a Cleveland-based nonprofit focused on successful aging and lifelong learning in the Greater Cleveland area. Across the ca...
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09-05-13
GE’s John F. Welch Technology Center in Bangalore, India, is the company’s largest integrated, multidisciplinary research and development site of its kind. The site has 4,500 full-time employees who help advance understanding on a wide range of materials technology and provide fresh analysis to s...
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07-19-13
Good citizenship at GE is about enabling positive changes in the world around us, while at the same time respecting human rights. We believe that support for human rights is both a responsibility and a sound business strategy, and in fact many of GE’s businesses offer products and services that e...
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06-28-13
GE (NYSE: GE) today released its 2012 “Our Global Impact” update showing the progress of the company's ecomagination and healthymagination initiatives as well as measureable impact from its Citizenship efforts. In 2012, GE invested nearly $2 billion in research and development for ecomagination a...
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06-13-13
GE recently released the summary GE’s Response to Conflict Minerals as part of an ongoing supply-chain due-diligence program. Since 2009, the Com...
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05-09-13
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) has partnered with the GE Foundation and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine...
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03-28-13
The GE Citizenship Advisory Panel supports, challenges and advises GE (NYSE: GE) on its approach to sustainability, and engages with the Corporate Citizenship team and with business and functional leaders to support the company in understanding social, environmental and economic issues.
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