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Great Leaders Aren’t Born – They’re Made. And Africa Is Showing Us How
The glue that will cement Africa’s rising prosperity is good leadership, which demands robust education institutions. A new model is needed to develop efficient higher education policies and systems....
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Mothers’ Day Special: Meet The Women Who Are Reinventing The World With...
When Katherine Blodgett became the first woman scientist working in GE’s labs in 1918, she already held the distinction of being the first female to earn a PhD in physics from Cambridge University in...
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No Girls Allowed? A Computer Scientist Crushes Gender Assumptions
Female role models in traditionally male-dominated technical fields like computer science can help others overcome feelings of loneliness, intimidation and unworthiness. Without this support, these...
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Depeche Module: This Factory On Wheels Can Bring The Latest Drugs To New...
Back in Thomas Edison’s day, Americans could pick out a Sears Modern Home from a mail-order catalog and have it shipped to their new address for assembly. “Not only did precut and fitted materials...
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Hacking Matter: Singularity University Holds First Exponential Manufacturing...
The Boston Bruins didn’t make it to the Stanley Cup play-offs this year, but hockey sticks are the buzz in Beantown this week. These are figurative hockey sticks — the ones with rapidly rising curves...
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MakerBot CEO Says 3D Printing Is Spurring Invention
Desktop 3D printing is empowering a world of innovators by enabling those without formal design or engineering skills to find solutions to their own problems. At the Feinstein Institute for Medical...
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Readin’, ‘Ritin’ And Robots: Machine Learning And Robotics Competition Sparks...
Henry Wolfson doesn’t ride horses, but that didn’t stop him from bringing Sleipnir the robot, named after an eight-legged steed from a Norse myth, to St. Louis, Missouri, last month.Wolfson, who is 15...
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Podcast: 6 Questions African Leaders Must Answer Now
Diversifying developing economies require a social compact, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the former finance minister of Nigeria, explains in a CGD podcast. Cared for by her grandmother in a village in Nigeria,...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a subsea dig into the massive crater left behind by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago, mice that took a two-week vacation aboard the Space...
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Unleashing Urban Innovation: Smart City 2.0
We are witnessing the dawn of digitized, intelligent cities, where sensors are being deployed to monitor air quality, infrastructure health, traffic and even available parking spots. If this new layer...
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This Scientist Took A Deep Dive Into A Pool Of Sewage Treatment Plant Data....
The thought of sewage treatment plants is enough to make most people hold their noses. But Jason Nichols, who works as a chemical scientist at GE’s Global Research Center, decided to jump into the pool...
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Their Toolbox Runneth Over: Training Key To Bridging Africa’s Skills Gap
Sustainable economic growth in Africa will only be achieved by providing workforces around the continent with the skills they need to compete in the modern world. Preparing people for work in the...
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The Exponential Revolution: Ray Kurzweil Says The Convergence Of 3D Printing,...
If you’ve recently traveled overseas on a Boeing 777 plane, it’s quite likely that a pair of massive GE90 jet engines powered your ride. More powerful than the rocket that took the first American...
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Getting Current: New Tech Giving More Africans Access To Electricity
Much work remains to be done to ensure reliable electricity access for Africa’s citizens. A number of complications are making it difficult to achieve this UN Sustainable Development Goal. Yet access...
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Times Are Exponentially A-Changin’ — And You Haven’t Seen Anything Yet, Says...
For futurist and X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis, times have been always been a-changin’. But never as much as right now. “We are in a period when extraordinary things are starting to...
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GE On Track for 2016: Company Reaffirms Earnings Outlook And Digital Future
The engines driving GE’s growth are, well, engines. CFM International, the company’s 50-50 joint venture with Safran Aircraft Engines, is set to deliver 100 next-generation LEAP jet engines by the end...
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The LEDs Have Ears: The Company Edison Founded Seeks Interactive Lights In A...
How many inventors does it take to change the future of a lightbulb? GE Lighting partnered with the maker movement magazine Make: and the hardware-hacking community Hackster to find out. Their...
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Video: Eric Ries Talks To Beth Comstock About Entrepreneurship In The Age Of...
Build a management system that embraces entrepreneurship and uncertainty, counsels business management guru Eric Ries in a video interview with GE’s Beth Comstock.We’re in an age when just about every...
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Meet The Martyr Microbe: Killer Drug-Resistant Bacteria Blow Themselves Up To...
A group of scientists were surprised recently when they trained a powerful new microscope on a colony of dangerous drug-resistant bacteria responsible for thousands of hospital-acquired infections and...
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The World I See: Jeff Immelt’s Advice To Win In Time Of Anger About...
Many people around the world are angry about globalization and companies and governments are both to blame for it. But now is not the time to turn inward as a result, GE Chairman & CEO Jeffrey R....
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