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General Electric Starts Playing To Its Strengths

While some may question the quality of its earnings, a look inside the numbers shows that a series of bets made by CEO Jeff Immelt and his team are beginning to pay off for the industrial giant.


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Retail Outlook
Will weakness in housing and rising energy prices mean consumers are running out of gas? We talk with a retail analyst and a consumer expert about the outlook for the holiday season

  SPECIAL REPORTS
Best Global Brands
These 100 brands are among the world's most recognized—and most valuable

Best Places to Launch a Career
We canvassed career-services directors, employers, and students to rank the best companies for recent graduates

BusinessWeek 50
Our picks of the top-performing companies from the S&P 500. Plus, regional rankings for Asia and Europe:
Asia's BusinessWeek 50
Europe's BusinessWeek 50

Customer Service Champs
Companies that excel at pleasing customers, based on J.D. Power & Associates customer satisfaction data and our own reader survey

Hot Growth 100
From young, upstart companies to those that have been around for centuries: Plus, regional rankings of top-performing small businesses in Asia and Europe:
Asia's Hot Growth 100
Europe's Hot Growth 100

Info Tech 100
Emerging-market cellular players, wireless phone and gear makers, and Web giants are this year's stars

World's Most Innovative Companies
Nurturing, creative cultures allow these companies to wow customers with innovative products and services

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When Business Is in the Blood
It's a new -- and tougher -- world for family-owned companies. This Special Report takes a look at how the large and small are coping -- and thriving. Plus: What successful successions need; how the Buck Knives clan stays on the cutting edge; and lots more.
The Chipmakers Get Ready For a Laptop Rumble
Intel has jumped to a big lead over Advanced Micro Devices in the growing and lucrative market for notebook chips. But according to AMD CEO Hector Ruiz, the competition is about to get a lot tougher.


A Year for the Choosy Buyer
Standard & Poor's analyst Kenneth Shea sees ``solid positive momentum'' for the economy and the market in 2005. But with no one sector likely to be the year's standout star, he urges the greatest care when picking individual stocks.

Will Europeans Warm To Starbucks?
France's different coffee-drinking culture and the loss of a German partner are Continental challenges for its aggressive expansion plan.


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