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BusinessWeek October 13, 2003	Immelt on Being an "Embedded Partner" GE's CEO talks about his new push to use his multifaceted company's vast knowhow to help its customers grow faster and smarter.
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The Motley Fool May 22, 2007 Toby Shute	GE Cashes In on Plastic The conglomerate got top dollar for its plastics business. Now, what to do with all that cash? Buybacks keep the market happy, but they may not be the wisest use of capital today.
IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 Steve Minter	Critical Success Factors The purpose of the Six Sigma projects is to make the company more efficient and competitive not to reduce their numbers.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2009 David Lee Smith	Capital Unit Pummels GE With finance profits sliding by 67%, General Electric's fortunes remain uncertain.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2007 Jack Uldrich	GE Stays on Track GE investors are encouraged to focus on the big trends.
The Motley Fool July 11, 2008 David Lee Smith	The Amazing, Shrinking General Electric It reports lackluster earnings, then says it's selling off more of its businesses.
The Motley Fool January 22, 2007 Jack Uldrich	GE's Plastic Surgery The shift away from the plastics business toward diagnostics is risky. Bottom line: The conglomerate could be paying a lot for something that isn't really needed, and it would be better off just trying to take better care of its existing business.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	A Giant Question for GE Its diversity and double-digit growth across the board are attractive to investors, but is the price right?
BusinessWeek November 7, 2005 Shameen & Brady	GE Money Heads East GE Money is carving out a lucrative chunk of Asia's underserved credit markets.
The Motley Fool July 13, 2007 Anders Bylund	GE Sticking to Its Guns Why change, when what you're doing works so remarkably well? GE is sticking to what it knows best, which is rebuilding and reshaping itself into whatever form can support the highest profits today. Investors, take note.
Bank Systems & Technology January 31, 2006 Ivan Schneider	Wachovia Signs BPO Deal With Genpact Wachovia signed a seven-year business-process outsourcing deal with Genpact. Genpact's 16,000 employees in India, China, Hungary, Romania and Mexico will begin to drive Six Sigma through Wachovia's operations.
The Motley Fool December 31, 2007 Dan Caplinger	Best Stock for 2008: General Electric It's not just a blue chip for widows and orphans. Energy may be the catalyst to draw investors' attention, but a closer look shows that GE is also getting the rest of its business segments firing on all cylinders.
IndustryWeek April 15, 2009 Steve Minter	MAG Giddings & Lewis MAG's CEO says Six Sigma fails since companies often picking the wrong people for Black Belts, don't follow the define, measure, analyze, improve, control process and don't have the necessary executive leadership and commitment.
The Motley Fool October 12, 2006 Anders Bylund	Foolish Forecast: GE's Predictable Growth The company is set to report third-quarter 2006 earnings. Investors, don't expect any surprises.
The Motley Fool July 30, 2011 Eric Bleeker	Where Is GE's Growth Coming From? We'll examine not only where its sales and earnings come from, but also how its sales abroad have changed over time.
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The Motley Fool November 13, 2008 David Lee Smith	GE Gobbles Bailout Cash To fix its ailing finance arm, GE sidles up to the public trough.
The Motley Fool November 13, 2010 Rich Smith	And the Electric-Car Winner Is ... General Electric opens its wallet.
The Motley Fool April 15, 2005 W.D. Crotty	GE's Spring Cleaning General Electric continues to downsize its insurance unit, which is a weak spot in an otherwise strong quarter.
HBS Working Knowledge May 29, 2006 Groysberg, McLean & Nohria	Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play There can be potential mismatches between an executive's skills and the needs of his or her new employer.
The Motley Fool February 15, 2011 Rich Smith	General Electric Calls It Quits One more big energy buy and GE's done. (For now.)
Chemistry World August 4, 2015 Phillip Broadwith	Berry plastics to buy Avintiv for $2.5bn The move allows Berry to diversify from its main activity in food packaging and expand into medical and healthcare materials.
CIO December 1, 2003 Tracy Mayor	Targeting Perfection: Six Sigma Comes to IT Six Sigma is a defect reduction methodology that forces organizations to focus on the quality of the customer experience. And it can most definitely be applied to information technology.
IndustryWeek November 1, 2008 John Teresko	How to Organize for Lean/Six Sigma To enable the maximum potential of lean/Six Sigma efforts, focus on more than the factory floor.
The Motley Fool April 13, 2004 Lita Epstein	GE Bets on Health Care Closing a $9.5 billion deal for the U.K.'s Amersham assures a major role for GE Healthcare.
The Motley Fool January 9, 2009 David Lee Smith	Is GE Keeping Its Promises? GE is trimming its capital unit, but there's still a ways to go.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2006 Tim Beyers	GE's Ga-Ga Over China General Electric's CEO says his company's sales in China could double in five years.
The Motley Fool December 17, 2010 Rich Smith	General Electric Wants to Be a Millionaire The company's goal: to leave behind the days when GE's consumer finance business drove its growth efforts (into a ditch), and return to the company's roots as a maker of "stuff."
Knowledge@Wharton	There's Just One Word for Jack Welch... Praise for Jack Welch was widespread and consumed large quantities of newsprint in the weeks leading up to Sept. 7, his last day as chairman and CEO of General Electric. One word to sum up his contribution to GE in the 20-plus years he served as its leader would be: results...
The Motley Fool April 30, 2007 Nathan Parmelee	Quick Take: Why Break Up GE? While some shareholders may be frustrated with GE's stock price the past few years, that's more about a ridiculous valuation assigned to the company in 2000 than any operational missteps.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2008 Ryan Fuhrmann	Dueling Fools: GE Bear The bears feel that the risks in GE's financial services operations are worrisome.
BusinessWeek September 10, 2009 Burnsed & Thornton	Six Sigma Makes a Comeback With the outlook for sales growth dim, everyone from Target to Cadbury to Merck is turning to Six Sigma to squeeze out more savings.
The Motley Fool November 1, 2010 Rich Smith	General Electric's Got a Hot New Ride When General Electric announced last month it would spend $30 billion to reinvent itself ... who knew it would spend it on cars.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2008 David Lee Smith	Are Bulbs Brightening at GE? There was room for optimism in the big conglomerate's new strategic outlook.
The Motley Fool January 17, 2007 Anders Bylund	Foolish Forecast: Go, GE, Go The conglomerate is set to report earnings for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2006 shortly. Let's see what investors should expect out this complex giant.
The Motley Fool June 1, 2011 Katie Spence	This Stock Is Poised for Growth General Electric is moving on up.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2011 Rich Smith	2011: The Year General Electric Got Its Imagination Back Major moves make for a brighter future at GE.
The Motley Fool January 3, 2012 Rich Smith	2012 Preview: General Electric In General Electric's case could 2012 be any worse than 2011?
The Motley Fool November 22, 2005 Nathan Parmelee	Revisiting Atlantis The plastics company's recapitalization looks like it might pay off. This is a stock worth paying attention to. If revenues do rise, the company's financial leverage could lead to outsized returns in the future.
CIO August 15, 2003 Edward Prewitt	Six Sigma Comes to IT Once confined to manufacturing groups, the quality improvement program called Six Sigma is now being used to clean up IT's act.
The Motley Fool April 7, 2004 Brian Gorman	GE's New Real Estate With little fanfare, news surfaced yesterday that General Electric's GE Real Estate unit is preparing to buy U.K. real estate concern Benchmark Group PLC for $824 million..
The Motley Fool October 7, 2005 Steven Mallas	GE's Good Guidance General Electric gave its shareholders a nice gift with positive guidance and upped share buyback, especially in the current rocky market environment.
BusinessWeek March 28, 2005 Diane Brady	The Immelt Revolution He's turning GE's culture upside down, demanding far more risk and innovation
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BusinessWeek April 15, 2010 Diane Brady	Can GE Still Manage? CEO Jeff Immelt says his company trains the best business leaders in the world. Yet they haven't saved him from a hellish decade that cut GE's value in half.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2008 Anders Bylund	GE Can Blame Bernanke One missed quarter does not a miserable business make.
CRM October 18, 2004 Jason Compton	Six Sigma Returns to CRM Companies are applying this statistical business improvement methodology to sales and marketing processes, looking for those characteristics of an opportunity that have the greatest chance of success, or those leads that show the hallmarks of quality.