Essays on General Electric

Innovation Architecture

Innovation Architecture Innovation is essential for the development of all businesses. It is crucial for the management of the company to provide an environment that encourages development. Miller and Wedell-Wedellsborg (2013) argue that leaders should be innovation architects in addition to being innovators. The primary role of a leader is to ensure that the structures, processes, as well as culture, are conducive for the employees to be innovators. This paper is set to discuss the processes, culture, management styles, as well as systems of Netflix, General Electric (GE), and Lego that enable them to create a culture of motivation ...

Executive Summary

The document is a recompilation of information about the current status of a medical facility located in Bayonne, New Jersey owned by a multinational company located in the United Kingdom. Two analysts of the organization study the current status of the medical facility that is the current operations of the company, its economic performance and the trends of the business in the future. The medical facility has technology needs that are necessary for its normal operations. The considered medical facility executed its last technological overhauling in 2004, but the majority of the hospital equipment is from 1999 with a ...

Investment Portfolio Project

For my personal portfolio, the following values shall be taken into consideration.

Ri for every portfolio is calculated as follows Disney= 2%(19.3)=0.386

Therefore, Treynor’s indices are calculated as follows:

(Ri-Rf)/beta For Disney; (0.386-1)/1=-0.614 Citigroup= (1.12-1)/1= 0.12 General electric= (0-1)/1=-1 Morgan Stanley= (0.252-1)/1=0.748 Home depot= (0.5208-1)/1=-0.4792 Treynor’s indices are critical in determining the viability of an investment portfolio. Considering this investment platform, and the associated Treynor’s indices, a viable economic decision can be made out of it. The two modern portfolio theories, the Sharpe’s and Harry Markowitz’s Modern stipulate that an investment must consider both ...

Calculations

Portfolio Return = (2%*23.6%) + (65.5%*1.7%) + (10%*23.3%) + (10.3%*2.5%) + (8%*33.1%) + (4.2%*-1.0%) = 6.77558000% Portfolio Risk () = 14.2% Based on the calculations, investing in a portfolio comprising of stocks from Disney, Citigroup, General Electric, Morgan Stanley, Home Depot and Ford would attract a return of 6.78% and risk of 14.2%. Evidently, the individual stocks comprise of highly risky assets (Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup) and the other assets are have relatively low risk. Evidently, investors would gain from such a portfolio although the risk is very high. The combination of assets in to a portfolio helps to diversify the risks ...

Question 1

Two Criteria that are used for the Selection of Companies to be bought or retained in GE’s Portfolio of Companies based on the Case The GE Company is regarded broadly as among the sphere’s most successful companies of the 21st century. When Welch started his job as the General Electric CEO in 1981, he commenced on a comprehensive change of GE’s approach; introducing a current era of internal efficiency and performance management. Jack Welch’s profit direction, which was aimed at developing wages of 1.5 intervals to dual of the GDP development rate and the management ...

Five-year average return for each security

General Electric Ford Identify each company’s security A security is a financial asset commonly known as a financial instrument. Securities are categorized into three debt security, equity security and derivatives security. The Ford Securities are the debt securities while the company’s security for General Electric is the equity securities.

Identify the securities’ industries

General Electric is a Conglomerate. Ford is in the automotive industry.

Determine the average five-year average return in each industry.

The automotive industry return on equity is at 12.4% by the end year 2015. The return on equity for the conglomerate is at 0%.

Identify three additional stocks in each industry and determine the five-year average return for each.

Under the conglomerate the additional stocks are 3M CO Roper Technologies Koninklinje Philips ...

Companies included in the NYSE are competing in different industries such as Ford Motor under the major auto manufacturers (Yahoo, 2016) while General Electric is operating in the diversified machinery industry (Yahoo, 2016a). However, these companies are operating on a global scale with General Electric’s customers located in 180 countries (General, 2016, p.20) while Ford separates its customers based on geographic regions such as North America, South America, Europe, Middle East & Africa, and Asia Pacific (Ford, 2016, p.8). This means that they are primarily subjected to local as well as international competitors within their operating locations.

Ford

The main ...

Discounted cash flow is one of the valuation methods of performance used by a company to pick on a favorable and attractive investment opportunity (Baker and Powell 105). This evaluation analysis method uses future cash flows that are to be discounted to find the estimated present value of the project’s potential to invest. Business evaluation entails a well laid out set procedures employed in the estimation of the owner’s interest economic value in business. Financial market participants use business valuation to arrive at the price they are willing to receive or pay out for the sale of ...

The F-16 Fighting Falcon Lockheed Martin, the first multirole fighter of the US Air Force, is the most useful fighter jet in the world with more than two thousand units in service with the United States Air Force and two thousand operative aircraft in more than twenty-five countries. Entering service in 1978 became the first fighter purposely built to withstand twists 9-gravity force. The last of the 2,231 F-16s, the Air Force of the United States, was delivered in the first quarter of 2005, while the first dual-seat version, called F-16D, was approved by the United States of ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Nightlife Hospital, a leading health facility in the United States seeks a capital expenditure justification for the purchase of an MRI machine. This design of the machine will utilize the current technology so as to ensure best services to the customers. The machine will solve the current problems caused by referring patients to other hospitals and waiting for test results in before treating them. The machine should meet the demand by patients for better and more comfortable scanning operations. It should also be cheap, sustainable, and safe for the patients and the clinicians. The best MRI machine the ...

Former CEO of the worldwide renowned company, General Electric delivered a seminar about his company’s success and progress over the years. General Electric is regarded as the leading electronic companies of the world, and its success has been guaranteed by its leader, Jack Welch. At a seminar for the business students at Fairfield University, Jack Welch talked about the empire he built when he joined General Electric in 1960. Coming from a humble background and nurturing a knack for golf, he played in order to get to a top University of his choice but eventually enrolled at the ...

Virtual money of $100,000 was invested in diversified stocks during the stock trading simulation. The portfolio consisted of stocks from twelve companies all belonging to different industries. An overall profit of 0.41% was achieved in one month through the virtual simulation exercise. Stocks of all the companies are either listed on the New York Stock Exchange or the NASDAQ. One hundred shares of General Electric Company were purchased on 4th April when the stock price was $31.69. These shares were sold on 7th April when the stock price decreased to $30.64. The stock of General Electric was sold ...

Jack Welch was the CEO of General Electric Company since 1960. Jack took over the company when it had a market capitalization of approximately twelve billion dollars, and he managed to transform it to the largest as well as most admired firms across the globe. GE had a market value of around five hundred billion dollars by the time he stepped down. Jack is one of the key leaders who are celebrated by the company which has often been noted for its prowess in technological advancements. To successfully turn the future of the GE, Welch commenced on staff empowerment. ...

Executive Summary

Jack Welch is one of the formidable American chief executives of all times. Staying at the helm of General Electric for more than twenty years, he managed to increase total value of the company on 4,000%, eradicate corporate bureaucracy and create a completely new business philosophy of the corporation. This research analyzes the core elements of his leadership style. In particular, it speaks about the methods, which Jack Welch used for transforming the company and the challenges, which he faced in this endeavor. The case study specifically focuses on analyzing re-structuring of the top-management of GE, his approach ...