Archives Tagged as : economy

20 July 2012 Posted by Elma Peters

The Right Energy Mix

Guest post by Ziemowit Iwański, Region Executive, GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy

Representing 6.1% of the overall value of foreign direct investment to Poland and employing more than 180,000 people, US companies have shown their collective belief in the potential of the Polish economy. These impressive figures were presented at the US-Poland Business Summit that was held in Warsaw on June 20 at the Copernicus Science Center. The Summit was a much-awaited international trade and investment event, which gathered high-level officials and private sector representatives from the US and Poland. It was an excellent opportunity not only to look back on both countries’ economic cooperation, but more importantly to draw business lines for the future.

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9 July 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

The Economy is Manic Depressed!

„Greece is ahead. You guys just went bankrupt 20 years before everybody else,” says young Czech economist Tomáš Sedláček in his TEDx Thessaloniki 2012 talk. The independently organized event´s topic was The courage to create and Tomáš Sedláček takes the courage to diagnose the economic situation in Greece, the EU and the US with a unique wit of his own.  Watch and listen (and comment) with GEforCEE how this exceptional economist with a solid international reputation arrives to his diagnosis of the economy being manic depressed rather that just depressed.

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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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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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5 March 2012 Posted by GE for CEE

How to Engineer Growth

Guest post by Cristian Colteanu, GE’s President and CEO for Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova

”Innovation, which allows us to use resources more sparingly and efficiently, to harness for example (editor’s note) new sources of energy, and essentially to produce more with less, will therefore be the main engine of growth,” says Marco Annunziata, GE Chief Global Economist.

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6 December 2011 Posted by GE for CEE

Long-term Partner for SMEs

You want to vote the SME of the year in Hungary? Are you an SME looking for easy access to financial services via the internet in Poland? You want access to EU funds in both countries? These are all ways to help the SME sector grow financially and mentally. The crisis hit the companies operating in the region quite seriously; however, they still play a key role in stabilizing and developing the economies.

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11 November 2011 Posted by Eszter Szabó

Bigger is Better

Can large firms be better for economic development than small firms? As I argued at a recent conference organized by Figyelő, a Hungarian business weekly, on the topic of the role of multinationals in Hungary, firm size is a sign of past successes. This year's participants to the annually organized conference were dissecting the (co)-existence of domestic and multinational enterprises, also talking about common good and prosperity.

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