STRENGTHS Global recognition: General Electric has ventured into the world market thus gaining global recognition for its unique goods and services. In the year 2009‚ Forbes magazine ranked GE as the world ’s largest company. Hurbert (2007) notes that General Electric ’s brand is the world ’s most recognized brand. This kind of recognition has given it a competitive edge over other companies due to its ability to attract more customers. Global strength and competitiveness:The Company’s products
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Trading under the ticker symbol GE‚ General Electric is the only company from the original twelve stocks traded on the DJIA that is still listed on the index today. Currently‚ Jeffery Immelt serves as CEO for the Fortune #6 large cap conglomerate. Focusing on finance and technology‚ GE provides a vast array of products and services ranging from aircraft engines to consumer financing. Additionally‚ the company holds a 49% stake in NBC Universal (CNBC). As of 5/19/2011 GE boasts a market capitalization
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2010 EABR & ETLC Conference Proceedings Dublin‚ Ireland Corporate Entrepreneurship at GE and Intel John Zimmerman‚ Zayed University‚ U.A.E Abstract This is the first of three planned articles concerning Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE). The author is a former entrepreneur practitioner who secured an earned doctorate from Pepperdine University in 2008‚ and who now teaches at Zayed University in the United Arab Emirates. In this article the author explores the concept of Corporate Entrepreneurship
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Management in Dynamic Environments DB – GE Question 1: What is General Electric’s corporate-level strategy and why is it important? Corporate Level strategy is an action a firm takes to gain a competitive advantage by selecting and managing a groups of different businesses competing in different product markets. GE uses corporate level strategies as a means to grow revenues and profits‚ and an additional strategic intents to growth. This is important because it allows GE to select new strategic positions
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returns to scale‚ or demand-uncertainties that create expected inventory-cost risks and induce firms to produce to order and carry backlogs. The second condition certainly prevails in the turbine generator case. Anti-trust regulators observed that both GE and Westinghouse were pricing higher than conventional economic analysis predicts. So they assumed collusion and prosecuted‚ not just once but several times. In fact‚ as Ghemawat ’s research shows‚ the firms tried to collude but couldn ’t manage
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Michelle Abbott Professor Jon Down December 10‚ 2002 Written Case Analysis McKinsey & Company: Managing Knowledge and Learning Evaluating Gupta’s Four Pronged Plan Rajat Gupta has recently inherited a fast-growing consulting firm with a strong knowledge base and a competitive market position. In order to ensure the future success of McKinsey & Company‚ however‚ Gupta faces a number of challenges: he must provide outstanding services to an increasingly sophisticated clientele‚ offer his employees
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GE’s Two-decade Transformation Jack Welch’s Leadership Managing Konwledge and Learning (#9-399-150) ANALYSIS of GE Advantage‚ Problems and risks including my suggestion/ * (1) GE *Key factors*: Hardware restructure*: When Reg Jones‚ Welch’ Predecessor‚ became CEO in 1973‚ the company organization was just completed to be centralized‚ but Jones could not able to keep up with reviewing massive volume of information generated by 43 strategic plans. Finally in 1977‚ he capped GE’s departments
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Promoting Ethical Ultrasound Use in India A BLIHR Emerging Economy Case Study from GE – January 2009 Introduction: The Benefits and Burdens of Ultrasound Technology The distribution of compact‚ portable ultrasound technology in India offers significant potential health benefits to millions who suffer from painful or potentially lifethreatening diseases‚ such as breast cancer‚ uterine fibroids‚ cardiac disease and gynecological disorders. Ultrasound technology also has the potential to increase efficacy
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demonstrated the staying power and tenacity as General Electric (GE.). Of the companies that originally appeared when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was rolled out in 1896 only GE is still doing business today. (General Electric‚ 2007) GE’s 125 year run has not been spotless. GE‚ like any long lasting organization‚ has had many ups and downs. GE’s past has at times been glorious and at other times has been dark and manipulative. “GE traces its beginnings to Thomas A. Edison‚ who established Edison
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communication and a lax approach in dealing with an issue of high priority. Coke faced serious issues inside the organization which was the lapse in quality control that contaminated the CO2 content. Coke’s myopic outlook towards the issue made it lackadaisical in dealing with it. Question 2. What did coke do and what could have been done differently? What did it do | What could have been done | * Initially treated the incident as isolated and benign. * General approach towards the customers
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