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...planning "road shows" and taking out full-page ads in the New York Times. But is this all just much ado about nothing? The U.S. government does use its purchasing power as both a carrot and a stick, but formal sanctions just won't happen. And private corporations, like GE, got their "multinational" tag for a reason - they'll sign contracts wherever they get the best deal. As for average U.S. consumers, they've shown little compunction about buying diamonds that fund bloody militias in Africa, so in the long term they're unlikely to lose their appetite for flash...
LIFSET: Our economy is very effective in driving technological change, and you can see the benefits in terms of resource efficiency and reductions in pollution all around us. Companies as sophisticated as Dow or GE, first-rate companies, will produce good, responsible products. But technological change won't automatically bring about environmental protection. Consider product tagging, which is about to expand in the market in a big way. You buy a hair dryer at the drugstore, and there's a gizmo on the box that looks like a circuit or a circle of wires, and it sets off a buzzer...
TIME: Global firms like GE and Dow have enough muscle to force--or, you might say, to free--their smaller business partners to follow better environmental standards. Is this power being used well...
...tapped to run a 1,000-employee aircraft-engine parts plant in Wilmington, N.C. At 40, she led the integration into GE of Greenwich Aviation Services, a $1.6 billion company that the larger firm had just acquired. Two years ago, Immelt and his successor at GE Medical, Joe Hogan, persuaded Mellor to move her family to the division's suburban Milwaukee, Wis., headquarters...
...GE Medical makes the most sophisticated digital X-ray, C.T. scan, MRI and ultrasound equipment available, and it runs 40 facilities in 10 countries. Mellor made her mark immediately. Says Hogan: "Dee was able to bring up productivity in the components department almost 20% in the first 18 months. That had never been done before." Of course, fast results aren't always the kind you want, Mellor says, explaining her choice of China over India for producing that C.T. component: "It's a great example of not making the short-term play for a higher profit margin." Class dismissed...