Archives for : June 2012

29 June 2012 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Caribbean Diversity

Costa Rica, a country in Central America, has in the past seen its fair share of military conflict and  crises, but for more than a decade now its economy has been developing in an exemplary fashion.  How was it possible? . And should we in Europe consider the ‘Rich Coast’ as a best practice? Read an English translation of an article written by H. E. Borbala Czako, President of HBLF and Global Director of Ernst & Young, published in the Hungarian economic weekly Figyelő (June 5, 2012) on how a group of business people changed Costa Rica’s economic position and how diversity can improve efficiency.

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27 June 2012 Posted by Elma Peters

Eight Percent of Israel’s Electricity Capacity from CEE

Guest post by Gergő Lencsés, GM of GE Energy Veresegyház, Hungary

Balancing the electricity grid is going to be a major challenge for economies given the growing proportion of renewables in the energy mix worldwide, and the EU’stargets of 20% by 2020. At GE, we believe one of the solutions to this can be provided by aeroderivative gas turbines. Israel is one of the flagship countries which has put this into practice and installed 12 GE advanced aeroderivative gas turbines , to help meet its urgent power needs.  The 50 MegaWatt (MW) aeroderivative units, assembled in Veresegyház in Hungary, are part of a $200 million deal for the landmark 800 MW Dorad Energy Plant. The plant is the largest, and one of the first independent power plants in Israel since its market was deregulated.

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25 June 2012 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Icebreakers

“There is nothing more wholesome than the increased participation of women, from corporate boardrooms to legislative bodies, in classrooms and on the playing fields. To ensure peace and prosperity in the 21^st century, we must increase the participation of women.  That is why I encourage the women of the world to know their power,” was the message of the Democratic Leader of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to the readers of this blog. We met when she spent a few hours in Budapest recently. Ms. Pelosi made history in 2007 with becoming the first woman Speaker of the House in the US and recently published the book “Know Your Power”.

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22 June 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Being a Good Employer

Guest post by Tatiana Wojciechowska, HR Manager East & South East Europe, GE

On June 14, GE Poland won the Solid Employer 2011 Award , while earlier on April 26, GE Healthcare Greece was named one of the recipients of the 2012 Best Workplace Award in that country. The two awards are recognition of GE’s policy to invest in people and create trustful and challenging work places.

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20 June 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Immediate Action is Needed

Guest post by Marta Szigeti Bonifert, Executive Director at Regional Environmental Center (REC)

The Rio+20 opens today where decision makers and stakeholders from all over the world gather to discuss their vision for a sustainable future. The need to take action is more pressing than ever: failure to act in the present will inevitably lead to more intensive resource utilization in the future, with ever more serious consequences. Unless we change the current patterns of interaction between nature and human beings, the increasingly negative impacts will be inherited by future generations.

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19 June 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

US-Poland Business Summit in Warsaw

Tomorrow, on June 20, at Copernicus Science Center at the heart of Warsaw, American and Polish business executives and government officials will meet to discuss how to stimulate more commercial activity between the two countries. Guests will discuss commercial opportunities and try to address innovative research and development cooperation needs. The event will gather senior-level government officials from the US and Poland including Acting U.S. Secretary of Commerce Rebecca M. Blank, U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce Francisco J. Sanchez Polish Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Waldemar Pawlak and Under Secretary Ilona Antoniszyn-Klik, Ministry of Economy RP.

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18 June 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

CEE@Olympics – Brave, Bright and Brilliant

Czech high school student Stanislav Fořt is one of the world’s great Olympians, beating the best of the best at the last two Olympiads. Never seen him on TV? That’s because Stanislav wasn’t there in Athens or Beijing, but competed in the yearly International Olympiad on Astronomy & Astrophysics. Next piece of our series about the CEE region’s participation in international competitions, including the Olympics of which GE is one of the 11 Worldwide Partners.

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15 June 2012 Posted by Spiewak Elzbieta

A Stellar Treatment

If you ever spot the flashing light of the International Space Station (ISS) in its orbit during your spring evening walk, remember that GE Healthcare has its Vivid q on board. Vivid q is a compact ultrasound system roughly the size of a laptop which can provide clinical data and high-quality heart images that are crucial in understanding how the heart and its individual valves are functioning. It is part of NASA‘s new Human Research Program (HRP) that analyzes the effects of space travel on astronauts’ bodies.

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13 June 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Online Green Pack

Hungary has one of the highest levels of surface water supply per capita in Europe, most Czech households use drinking water from public water systems, and the overall amount of waste produced in Poland reaches four tonnes per capita per year. These are some facts about the environment and sustainability that are part of Green Pack, the most popular online educational project from the Regional Environmental Center based in Szentendre (Hungary).

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11 June 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

The Next Stage

Guest post by Tom Cwiok, the editor of American Investor, the official magazine of the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland

When he showed up for an interview about the importance of the Transatlantic relations in the global economy, Lesław Kuzaj, CEO of GE for Poland, had a sheet of paper in his hand with numbers and figures. Soon it was clear to me that Mr Kuzaj had done his homework. He came to talk about a vision for North America and the EU not only in terms of great political and cultural ideas on which to build a common transatlantic future but, equipped with a solid economic argument, he presented upsides of a free-trade agreement between the NAFTA countries and the EU.

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