General Electric Company


From Employee to Entrepreneur

By Larry Kesslin |  Sep 1, 1999

When I graduated from Rutgers University in 1985 with a degree in electrical engineering, I immediately did what came naturally back then: I joined a larg...  Read story

Help In Exploring New Product Ideas

Oct 1, 1981

Looking for new products or processes to produce and market? General Electric publishes a monthly news service, called Selected Business Ventures (SBV), ...  Read story

Small Technical Firms Get New Export Boost

Jun 1, 1982

Just 12% of this country's gross national product is generated by international trade, and almost all of it is carried out by our largest corporations. T...  Read story

Getting To The Top -- And Staying There

By Curtis Hartman |  Aug 1, 1983

'I don't think about my weaknesses; it's too easy to turn those into excuses. I don't see obstacles, just minor impediments.'  Read story

How Do You Sell A Light Bulb That Never Burns Out?

By Tom Richman |  Mar 1, 1986

Kevin Keating figured he had a sure thing. So why didn't it walk off the shelves?  Read story

Steve Prelosky

Jun 1, 1987

Age: 30 Hometown: Pittsburgh Undergraduate Degree: Pennsylvania State University Business School: Graduate School of Industrial Administ...  Read story

Why We Lose

By Tom Richman |  Jul 1, 1989

Book review: The Silent War: Inside The Global Business Battles Shaping America's Future. (Random House 1989)  Read story

Seller Door

By Leigh Buchanan |  Sep 15, 1998

An interview with Glen Meakem, CEO of FreeMarkets OnLine. Meakem explains why Internet commerce increases competition and rewards only the most efficiently r...  Read story

Returns: Mergers and Accusations

By Kenneth Klee |  Oct 1, 2002

Yes, most mergers are misguided. But savvy investors shouldn't overlook those few companies that get them right.  Read story

The Converts

By Inc Staff |  Nov 1, 2006

They saw the light. Now they're making sure everyone else does, too.  Read story

The Next Generation

By George Gendron |  Mar 1, 1995

Results of a survey of high school students on their attitudes about entrepreneurship.  Read story

Tips From A Banker

By Michael Celello |  Nov 1, 1981

Fewer than 10% of prospective borrowers come to a bank adequately prepared. And bankers haven't the time to dig for the facts they need. Unfortunately, t...  Read story

How Hard Could It Be?: How I Learned to Love Middle Managers

By Joel Spolsky |  Sep 1, 2008

I hoped to create a utopian workplace. Instead, I caused an employee revolt.  Read story

Rating The Bosses

Apr 1, 1984

Take the 2,477,000 corporations in the United States, winnow out the 2,476,900 sweatshops and soul-crushers, and you are left with 100 swell places to wor...  Read story

Great Moments In Recruiting

By Stephen D. Solomon |  Apr 1, 1986

PART 4 But Did They Get A's in the Course? The two engineering students from Stanford University capped of their undergraduate years of friend...  Read story

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By Virginia Inman |  Jul 1, 1986

North Carolina's Research Triangle is the idol of industrial-policy advocates, who argue that the rest of the country ought to emulate its business-govern...  Read story

Seeing the Light

By George Gendron |  Sep 1, 1999

Don Dennis, president and CEO of AVT Inc., in Littleton, Colo., said he was a "total non-believer" in E-commerce until recently. The General Electric vete...  Read story

Will The Company Please Come To Order

By Ellen Wojahn |  Mar 1, 1986

Who's in charge at Marquette Electronics? (Hint: It only looks like it's the employees.)  Read story

Take A Risk: It's Safer

By Robert A. Mamis |  Aug 1, 1981

Buying stocks of small, high-flying companies may seem chancy, but the payoffs should make even conservative investors take notice.  Read story

In-Flight Networking

By Laura Palotie |  Jun 18, 2008

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read story

Seeing the Light

By George Gendron |  Sep 1, 1999

Don Dennis, president and CEO of AVT Inc., in Littleton, Colo., said he was a "total nonbeliever" in E-commerceuntil recently. The General Electric vetera...  Read story

The 1993 Inc. 500

By Inc Staff |  Oct 1, 1993

Annotations to the 1993 Inc. 500 list.  Read story

One Plus One Is Three

By Leslie Brokaw |  Oct 1, 1990

Start-up does contract product development work for manufacturers.  Read story

Nothing Endures but Change

By Dr. Pierre Mornell |  Jul 1, 2000

The only absolute in today's volatile business climate is that change is inevitable -- and just around the corner. So unless you're ahead of it, you're alrea...  Read story

Kukla, Fran, and Pinky

By Leslie Brokaw |  Sep 1, 1990

Start-up publishes children's books with finger puppets.  Read story

Big Business Eyes EMR Industry

By Lauren Folino |  Oct 6, 2009

Corporations, such as Dell and GE, partner with small business pioneers to have a stake in the electronic medical records industry.  Read story

Time After Time

By Arthur G. Hendricks |  Jul 1, 1984

Just-in-Time is neither Japanese nor new. It was popularized in the late 1950s and '60s as part of the development of modern management techniques that a...  Read story

Get in the Door One Step at a Time

By Tom Richman |  Aug 1, 1991

Asking for a little bit of the business as an alternative sales strategy.  Read story

The Best of Both Worlds

By J. Stamps |  Mar 1, 1994

Competing small companies are forming networks that strengthen each company's independence.  Read story

The Entrepreneurial Mystique

Oct 1, 1985

Almost all of the conventional wisdom about entrepreneurship, says Peter Drucker, is dead wrong. Entrepreneurship is nothing more than a discipline and, like...  Read story

In-Your-Face Selling

By Adam Bluestein |  Nov 1, 2006

A gutsy approach to closing the deal.  Read story

What Makes a Company Great?

By George Gendron |  Feb 1, 1995

Inc.'s editor-in-chief offers an overview and review of J. Collins and J. Porras's book 'Built to Last.'  Read story

Business Donations for Hurricane Relief Reach $1 Billion

By Kevin Ohannessian |  Oct 27, 2005

Oct. 27, 2005 --An unprecedented level of contributions by American companies, from small businesses and big businesses alike, have been a...  Read story

Grist: Save the Founder

By Adam Hanft |  Oct 1, 2005

Every business--no matter how big or how "mature"--needs an entrepreneur at the helm.  Read story

Employee Swap

By Elizabeth Conlin |  Dec 1, 1989

Small company has an informal symbiotic relationship with GE. The two companies trade employees frequently.  Read story

Book Value

By Jeffrey L. Seglin |  Aug 1, 2000

Reviews of four business books -- two wildly different takes on the state of shareholder value, one about why consumers rule now more than ever, and one on h...  Read story

An Excellent Question

By Tom Peters |  Dec 1, 1984

The author of In Search of Excellence answers the 10 questions most frequently asked about his book.  Read story

States Target Outsourcing

By Darren Dahl |  Jul 1, 2004

Several states hope legislative efforts will help curb a trend toward outsourcing to companies overseas.  Read story

Charging Forth;

By V.I. |  Jan 1, 1986

SOME SHOPPERS WHO HAVE overloaded their bank cards can still charge ahead at their favorite small stores. Shopping centers are beginning to fish for cust...  Read story

The Small Chill

By Robert A. Mamis |  Feb 1, 1990

Engineer forms a company around his new invention, a miniaturized combination freezer-refrigerator-microwave.  Read story