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...dollars of the company's liabilities. By the time Enron crashed, it was primarily a trading firm. It had relatively few hard assets to cushion its fall when business faltered and hidden debts came due. The risks aren't nearly so great at asset-rich companies like Tyco and GE. But, as with Enron, seasoned analysts have trouble determining whence, exactly, they derive their profits...
While investors sort that one out, they can also look at GE, famous for its steadily rising earnings and steadily rising stock price. GE is an acquisitive conglomerate known for reporting one-time gains and one-time losses in striking balance, keeping growth on a calm and steady course. The company has also benefited from earnings that flow from its overfunded pension plan. Last year, with the broad stock market down 13%, GE reported a whopping $1.7 billion of income from pension-plan investments. How could that be? Here's one possibility cited by stock analysts: by raising the estimated...
Some companies are using B2B techniques to squeeze more efficiency from the supply chain. Consider mechanics who work on GE aircraft engines, who typically spend hours studying a paper repair manual, cross-referencing it with update notices, thumbing through a parts catalog and phoning to leave a message for someone at GE who might call back the next day. Software from Enigma of Burlington, Mass., offers a fast alternative: the mechanic has only to find the part he needs, then click on it, and it's on the way. It's a greasy business, not particularly sexy...
...JEFFREY IMMELT Can GENERAL ELECTRIC, the world's most profitable industrial company, continue its stunning record of innovation and profit? That's up to Immelt, 45, handpicked successor to the most influential CEO ever, Jack Welch. Immelt made his name boosting the fortunes of GE's Medical Systems business, and barely three months into his new job, he is already casting a large shadow. Despite the sour global economy, a debilitating advertising slump at NBC and a serious downturn in his jet-engine business, Immelt paid $2 billion in October for Spanish-language TV network Telemundo...
Companies like GE run multilingual trading sites, such as gepolymerland.com courting customers in 11 languages, including Portuguese and Chinese. Life-sciences and finance companies are also bolstering demand. When California-based ADAC Laboratories needed a quick Italian version of technical documents for a positron emission tomography scanner, it turned to Berlitz GlobalNET, which finished the job in 10 days. When Morgan Stanley and Prudential need translations of research reports and marketing materials into Japanese, German and other languages, they often turn to Lionbridge...