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11 May 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Why Europe Matters

AmCham EU hosted its ninth annual Doorknock in the US between 7-10 May. The organisation chaired by Hendrik Bourgeois of GE Europe, presented its European study Why U.S. companies should stay the course at an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington D.C. 8 May.

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8 May 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Don’t Reign, but Inspire

“CEOs must be able to make people dream. They should be able to inspire people and allow them to face challenges. What is management? Management is service for the organization. Imagine a reversed pyramid. A CEO is not someone who stands at the vertex, reigning over the people. A CEO should be able to provide services for employees, who are standing above. This is the role of the CEO. CEOs, in the meantime, have experienced every part of the pyramid, during their journey toward the top.”

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7 May 2012 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Navigating Trust in a Complex World

Guest post by Bjorn Edlund, Chairman Europe, Middle East and Africa at global PR firm Edelman.

The 2012 Trust Barometer prepared by Edelman provides an update on trust and distrust in different public institutions. The research was conducted among 25 countries around the world and, put very simply, distrust and skepticism are growing globally, particularly as exhibited by a record nine point drop in trust for government leaders, however for regular employees we see a spectacular rise.

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3 May 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Button in Budapest

The countdown to the Grand Prix in Budapest on July 29 has begun, it’s only 87 days until the only Formula One race in CEE. This week thousands of spectators watched F1 racing cars performing on a special racing course right in the center of Budapest on Tuesday, May 1. You can read more details in this article.

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26 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Fast and Focused

When Formula One car racing team Caterham tied up with GE in the summer of 2011, the F1 team gained access to GE's leading-edge technological, R&D and manufacturing resources. "They're a fantastic company to work with," says Caterham's chief technical officer, Mike Gascoyne. "Speaking as an engineer, their technology and innovation centers are very inspiring places to be and they're very strong in areas that are highly relevant to us.

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25 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

Inventing the Future: George Emil Palade

Healthcare in the 21^st century is mostly like a second degree equation; a mix of technology and skills which are all adding up to a manual of the human body and ho wto treat it. Nowadays, we go down to the level of cells and their “life” in determining the nature of a disease or the health status of a patient. We all heard about ribosomes and learnt about their importance in the domain of modern molecular cell biology. We thank much of that knowledge to the work of George Emil Palade (1912-2008) in the biology domain.

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23 April 2012 Posted by Ivan Hutter

Collaboration of Újpest Municipality and GE Brightens the Horizon and Lowers Cost

Five kindergartens and six other local institutions of Újpest, a district of Budapest, and designated schools and kindergartens of the towns of Nagykanizsa and Hajdúböszörmény can make substantial savings thanks to 1,300 pieces of energy efficient light sources that were donated by GE Lighting. The donation was the result of an initiative of Zsolt Wintermantel, mayor of Újpest, who wanted leaders of the district to start cooperating more closely with local companies in order to speed up further development.

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16 April 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

A New European Dream

Guest post by Tomáš Sedláček, Czech economist and author Thanks to the current economic crisis, the European Dream is also widely being discussed. But paradoxically enough, all this may even give rise to a New European Dream, argues Czech economist Tomáš Sedláček . But in an article written for Hospodarske noviny, the Czech equivalent to The Financial Times, and published on his blog on aktualne.cz he asks is there such a concept, or we just chase the American dream and try to adopt it?

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10 April 2012 Posted by Magdalena Nizik

Remember and Prepare

GE Company Polska and the Warsaw Institute of Aviation offer a Scholarship Program to commemorate the victims of the Smolensk crash that happened two years ago. The scholarship is financed from a special grant that GE Aviation and GE Energy funded after the tragedy to be used for a cause benefiting Polish citizens. The Warsaw Institute of Aviation matched that grant with additional funding, increasing the total amount.

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