GE Vernova tries to shake its parent’s problems

Massive conglomerates used to define corporate best practice. Think about a company like General Electric, known as “the everything company”. But today, there’s a new popular model: de-conglomeration. The FT’s former US energy reporter Amanda Chu examines whether this is working for a power business that GE spun off last year – or if it’s just another Wall Street fad.

Clips from BBC, Bloomberg, DW

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For further reading:
Rustbelt gamble: GE Vernova rides AI power boom into uncertain future (ft.com/content/474eb6e6-1ef3-48d5-8ea9-43211c6…)
Is the US power grid ready to meet the demands of data centres? (ft.com/content/d3db0206-4ae8-489b-b7a8-532c761…)
Have America’s industrial giants forgotten what they are for? (ft.com/content/95008728-986c-4dcf-95aa-16fbb4e…)
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Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com (ft.com/content/e6c4f2b4-a5c5-4069-97af-bfecb33…)
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