NEW YORK, May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) today announced that it will honor Jeffrey Immelt, Chairman and CEO of GE, and Samuel Palmisano, Chairman of

By jettisoning one of its most iconic units, General Electric (GE) would join a small but high-profile club of companies that famously parted ways with businesses once synonymous with their brand names.

By Erica Erwin, Erie Times-News, Pa. Apr. 19--General Electric Co. Chief Executive Jeffrey Immelt will spend Wednesday answering to about 1,900 GE shareholders. The day before, he'll play to a decidedly different, and perhaps more antsy, audience -- elementary school students.

By Bill Carter Now hear this: NBC Universal is not for sale. No how, no way. Looking to squelch persistent rumors, Jeffrey Immelt, the chairman of General Electric, plans to make his most definitive statement yet about his company's chief media asset.

By Rachel Layne and Andrea Rothman Andrea Rothman reported from Paris. * General Electric, the biggest jet-engine maker, said Monday that it had agreed to buy Smiths Group's aerospace unit for $4.8 billion as rising demand for travel drives record sales of commercial aircraft at Boeing and Airbus.