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17 May 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

The Brilliant Soap Box

When in hospital, we are in the hands of doctors and nurses. But the hands that heal need to be as clean as possible. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention proper hand washing is the easiest and most effective way to prevent hospital-acquired infections, which cause nearly 100,000 deaths each year and cost billions. GE Reports reported on a brilliant solution to help medical staff track handwashing at healthcare institutions.

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15 May 2013 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Secret Weapon Against Crisis?

Guest post by Radek Špicar, Vice-President of the Confederation of Industry of the Czech Republic and Executive Director of the Aspen Institute Prague

“If Lehman Brothers had been ‘Lehman Sisters‘, today’s economic crisis clearly would look quite different” – a famous comment by Christine Lagarde, Head of the IMF and former Finance Minister of France, on whether more women in the boardrooms of major financial institutions would have averted, or at least mitigated, the impact of the debt crisis. More women in senior management roles is a hot topic and a big discussion within the EU. By 2020, publicly listed companies – according to European Commission legislation adopted in November 2012 – should increase the female presence on their corporate boards to a minimum of 40%.

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13 May 2013 Posted by Kinga Kalocsai

Meet GE People: Agostino Renna

In a video message, Agostino Renna, President and CEO GE Lighting EMEA, lists speed, simplicity, customer-centricity and accountability as key areas of focus for 2013.

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10 May 2013 Posted by Zbigniew Mularczyk

New Friend for Children with Diabetes

Parents whose children suffer from type 1 diabetes are facing a particularly tough task. Raising the offspring is a challenge in its own right, but they must also help the kids to get along with the disease. This is why it is key to develop solutions that would help educate children and shape their disease-related routines from early on. According to the World Health Organisation, 347 million people suffer from diabetes worldwide, 10% of those is diagnosed with type 1 diabetes which tends to develop in the early stages of life. 490 000 children in the world suffer from diabetes. This effects not only their lives, but also their families’. Who can come up with a technology solution that would have an impact on more than a million lives globally? Young innovators from CEE surely can.

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8 May 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Deal of the Giants – What About CEE?

On May 9 we are celebrating the birth of the European Union. The EU was established with the aim of creating peace, but its dynamism and success is based on its involvement in economics. More than half a century later, an even bigger alliance is in the making, when a transatlantic trade and investment partnership (TTIP) is to take place between the two largest economies of the world: that of the US and the EU. With over 4.7 trillion USD combined bilateral trade and investment, not to mention the combined GDP, the deal is about to turn the global economy, as we know it today around. This agreement was urged by many, including European AmChams, for some time. After the first rounds of enthusiasm around TTPI it is time to reflect how this move may effect CEE. To find out, GE for CEE brings you the opinion of those, who were and would be at the frontline of the changes that the new partnership will hopefully bring.

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7 May 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Get Your Hands Dirty – for a Good Cause

Back in the age the Flower Power, pollution was a sign of prosperity, cars with enormous fuel consumption were the pride of families. But the age of environmental innocence was soon to be over: 22 April 1970, 20 million people in the US took to the streets, to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment and Earth Day was born. 33 years later, people switched from protest and posters to real live actions around the world. People in CEE – many GE volunteers among them – took action and were not afraid to get their hands dirty.

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3 May 2013 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Power Mums

Guest post by Andrea Ainsworth, FMP Program Leader at GE Capital Europe; COO of the GE Women’s Network East Central Region

Usually you expect a piece on praising working mothers to be written by someone who looks at them as an outsider, either with the reassurance of “I have been there” or the fear of “It will happen to me too”. This is not the case as I have been with GE for 17 years in different poles, businesses and several leadership roles professionally and also have 2 boys to be a mother for. I know that the “work-life-balance” is something to aim for and never the finish line. It takes effort and time to keep both family and your employer happy. It is not an easy thing, but luckily, you do not have to do it alone. Stillettos and strollers used to be old fashioned antagonism – these days, it is a choice of life for many.

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29 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

A Woman Can Do More Than The Devil

Guest post by Agnieszka Miszczyk, editor-in-chief of inzynierka.pl

There is a lot of truth to the saying that a woman can do more then the devil. Women know perfectly well how to manage a team to achieve their goal. Some say it is intuition. I'd rather say it is the matter of evolution. If one claims that women are made to stay home and bring up children, then it is clear that it comes from women's innate negotiation skills, problem and conflict solving skills and the art of motivation.

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26 April 2013 Posted by Patricia Leary-Kreitzer

Celebrate your 50th in Style

Guest post by Milan Šlapák, Commercial Director at GE Aviation Czech

As our readers know the Prague-Letnany based company is the only place outside the US where GE Aviation develops aircraft engines and H80 is the first turboprop engine in the history of GE Aviation that has been designed and manufactured outside the United States. The 50th engine is now heading to American Trush Co., a light agricultural aircrafts producer. Thrush´ s 510G agricultural aircraft is the first aircraft to enter service with the H80 engine.

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24 April 2013 Posted by GE for CEE

Foundations for Energy

Guest post by Alexander Silin, General Manager Sales - Europe -Thermal Products - GE Power & Water

CEE’s energy landscape is changing fast and that is not only a figure of speech: new power plants are appearing across the region as the industry strives to shift gear. At the end of last year, construction started of PGNiG and Tauron’s heat and power plant in Stalowa Wola and only last week I was in Wloclawek at the launch of another landmark project that will change Poland’s energy landscape for good and for the better. Both projects deploy GE’s advanced technologies.

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