Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...I’m doing a lot of exercise, being outside, socialising in the daytime, it’s a more relaxed atmosphere in which to do business.”...
...That is exactly what GE Appliances’ chief executive was until 2016, when Haier of China bought the Kentucky-based white goods business from GE for $5.4bn in cash....
...In the meantime, companies are doing what they can to minimise the upset....
...Ultimately, we are a commercial business. If we help our colleagues, we know this will come back to us tenfold.”...
...By then, he had also sold NBCUniversal to Comcast; in 2016 he sold GE’s century-old appliances business too, to China’s Haier....
...“It’s harder now for us to find people to say ‘yes’ to as a responsible lender.”...
...Incidentally, a plethora of media outlets (inc....
...US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen has floated “friendshoring” as a compromise concept....
...In Asia, Panasonic and Chinese appliance maker Haier are among the first to offer a solution....
...HP, Dell Technologies and Acer, as well as game console makers Sony Group and Nintendo and home appliance builders such as Dyson and LG Electronics....
...There cannot be a solution to combat climate change if it does not include us....
...“I started doing business in Vietnam before the diplomatic normalisation between the US and Vietnam” in 1995, he said....
...Haier bought GE Appliances from GE in 2016 and has reformed its more rigid management model....
...As she learnt more about plant genetics, for example, she became focused on the damage that humans were doing to the environment and convinced that the problems within the food system were about more than...
...tens of thousands of business and public-sector victims....
...Our main item today is on Jennifer Granholm, whom the US Senate last week confirmed as the country’s new energy secretary....
...Competition in the US has increased since China’s Haier Group, the world’s largest white goods company, paid $5.6bn for the appliance division of GE in 2016....
...“Historically, [workers in] companies have just grabbed people closest to them on an org chart and asked them to solve it,” adds Brian McGarvey, human resources leader for US and Canada at GE Healthcare,...
...But it is also prompting ingenious solutions and workarounds to the difficulties of doing business at a distance and the more personal challenges of isolation, boredom and forced integration of home and...
...The target audience for GE Appliances products in China would have been affluent consumers, such as former students in the US who had returned home, Mr Zhang said....
...“I think both presidents from China and the US are doing what they can to protect their countries, so what’s happening is probably good for the long term of business,” said Mr Martin....
...Doing that effectively will mean developing a cadre of managers who can take the Broadcom way of doing things into many unrelated businesses, as GE did in its heyday....
...She describes the company as specialising in distressed markets, such as the US after the financial crisis, where it spent nearly $10bn purchasing properties and sometimes buying up entire neighbourhoods...
...“Some of them will be taken over by smart speakers, others by alternative home appliances, yet more by applications in your car....
...General Electric offloaded its appliances division to China’s Haier two years ago and it is now trying to find a buyer for its lighting business....
International Edition