rP os t TB0383 Andrew C. Inkpen General Electric’s Corporate Strategy Like the premature obituary of writer Mark Twain‚ reports of the death of the conglomerate are often exaggerated. Diversified companies‚ straddling multiple industries‚ or even just different parts of one large sector‚ remain a dominant‚ if not always fashionable‚ feature of stock markets from the U.S. to continental Europe and Asia. But a new backlash against conglomerates suggests that a more lasting shift in investor preferences
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Jeff Bezos‚ the founder of Amazon.com‚ was born in Albuquerque‚ New Mexico in 1964. His mother‚ Jackie‚ was in her teens when he was born and she was only married to his biological father for about a year. She married Mike Bezos when Jeff was four. Mike was a Cuban who escaped to the United States when he was fifteen. He put himself through college in New Mexico and eventually became an engineer at Exxon. Jeff attended Miami Palmetto high school and was valedictorian of his class. He went to Princeton
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60-89: Moderate readiness for a leadership role. I see myself being able take up challenging role as a leader. I will be ready to implement important decisions with the help of other team members‚ and I will see myself as a team player. Skill Development In order to improve on my leadership skills‚ I must overcome challenging roles‚ and also learn from it. I will also learn from experienced supervisors. I will also take up the leading roles in leadership assignment‚ most especially when it comes to
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GE Energy and GE Healthcare Case Study 1. What are the business benefits of using information technology to build strategic customer relationships for GE Energy and GE Healthcare? What are the business benefits for their customers? Technology is no longer an afterthought in forming business strategy‚ but the actual cause and driver. Networking and data storage & analysis technologies enabled GE to gain a competitive advantage by providing unique products and services to their customers. What
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facing Immelt assuming the CEO role in 2001? What imperatives where there to change? What incentives to maintain the past? 2. What do you think of the broad objectives Immelt has set for GE? Can a giant global Conglomerate hope to outperform the overall market growth? Can size and diversity be made an asset rather than a liability? 3. What is your evaluation of the growth strategy (a strategy for a giant global conglomerate with a portfolio of mature industrial businesses) Immelt has articulated
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Jeffrey R. Immelt is an ethical leader which fits the quote‚”…. leaders are not responsible for making other people ethical. Rather they are responsible for enabling their organizations to be aware of ethical meaning and reflect on it as a core part of the organization.” Immelt is the ninth chairman of General Electric a post he holds till now since September 7‚ 2001 after his predecessor Jack Welch. Immelt is also nominated‚ not once but three time by Barron’s as “World’s Best CEO”. Furthermore
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0Chart Outlining Incidents of Dramatic Irony Example of Dramatic Irony from Acts I & II|CharactersInvolved|Sympathy? Antipathy?|Reason your sympathies lean as they do|Evidence – Lines and Explanation of Effect| In Act I Scene.5‚ the Ghost reveals to Hamlet that he was poisoned to death by Claudius‚ Claudius then spread the rumour that he died by a snake bite which is believed to be true .Only Hamlet and the readers know the truth that Claudius murdered Hamlet’s father. |King Hamlets Ghost‚
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Case summary: ‘GE’s Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative’ The General Electric Company (GE) is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in New York. The Company operates through five segments: Energy Infrastructure‚ Technology Infrastructure‚ Capital Finance and Consumer & Industrial. The company has 287‚000 employees around the world. Products are Appliances‚ Aviation‚ Consumer‚ Electrical‚ Energy‚ Entertainment‚ Finance‚ Gas‚ Healthcare‚ Lighting‚ Locomotives‚ Oil‚ Software
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he prepared for the December 2006 meeting with GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt‚ Pierre Comte faced some difficult decisions. Only eight months into his job as chief marketing officer (CMO) of GE’s Transportation business‚ Comte would be presenting Transportation’s recommendations on some of the most visible growth initiatives in its locomotive business—projects that had been designated “Imagination Breakthroughs.” IBs‚ as they were called within GE‚ were new projects with the potential to generate $100
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| General Electric -Talent Machine | | Human Resources | General Electric (GE) is a true global company with presence in more than 100 countries. Clearly‚ with a workforce of more than 320’000 employees‚ GE also has to have proper human resources processes established. Its dynamic Business Operation Model and sophisticated and evolved human resources strategy are results of the steady growth over more than 130 years of corporate history. Since its incorporation in 1878‚ many CEOs have shaped
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