Inside GE Appliances’s innovation lab that developed the viral nugget ice maker

Kevin Nolan doesn’t have the same worries that many CEOs do. While most executives are focused on the bottom line, with an ever-increasing appetite for escalating profits, his FirstBuild, an innovation hub for GE Appliances, is tasked to simply break even. FirstBuild might not be a familiar name to many consumers, but its products increasingly are. The unit was responsible for the Opal Nugget Ice machine, which was first announced in 2015; the GE Mella, a Keurig-like device for...