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GM's Outgoing CEO Lays Out All The Problems That Drove The Automaker Into Bankruptcy
In another move, GM leaders outsourced nearly all of the company's information technology. We effec…
Alex Davies
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GM's CEO Wants Cadillac To Compete On The Global Level
I would like to see Opel cut its losses this year by anywhere from one-third to one-half. I would l…
Alex Davies
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GM CEO: The US Is Running Its Economy Like A Third World Country
"My concern is that we will be right back at it in two or three months, depending on the next crisi…
Max Nisen
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Former GM CEO: Apple has 'no idea what they're getting into'
Akerson pointed to the iPhone's high profit margin. The gross margin on the iPhone 6 is about 73%. …
Sam Colt
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How GM went from bankrupt and on the brink of death to being one of the world's best-run car companies
While the banking crisis that had triggered the Great Recession had largely been resolved in 2010, …
Matthew DeBord
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The Idea That GM's New CEO Is Underpaid Is Bogus
Now that the ship has been righted, Barra, who comes from the product side of the business, is char…
Alex Davies
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A big group of major business leaders just endorsed Hillary Clinton
"I have consistently voted for Republicans for President," former General Motors CEO Dan Akerson sa…
Maxwell Tani
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One Of The First Female Auto Execs Explains Why Making Mary Barra CEO Of GM Is Brilliant
The upside of Barra's selection over tough competitors goes beyond gender, Whitman argued. Barra is…
Alex Davies
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GM's New CEO Is Making 60% More Than Her Predecessor
"As a new CEO, Mary's total compensation is in line with her peer group and properly weighted so th…
Alex Davies
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Cadillac Wants To Triple Its Sales In China By 2015
Cadillac says "the elegant and spacious interior of the XTS is a good fit in China, where luxurious…
Alex Davies
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I've Never Had A Meeting With A Female Auto Executive
When Ford announced some changes of its own in November, no women were pictured in that release. Ni…
Alex Davies
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Cadillac's New ELR Is Ready To Battle Tesla For The Luxury Electric Car Market
With the ELR, GM will work to steal away those customers. The largest American automaker has severa…
Alex Davies
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TOP EXEC: New GM CEO Mary Barra Is The Perfect Choice Because She Lived Through The Company's Dark Days
"And so that depth of understanding of those mistakes and what we've done, the success of turning t…
Alex Davies
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Top CEOs Work Crazy Hours Even On Normal Days
Helena Morrissey, CEO of Newton Investment, gets up "at 5 in the morning, sometimes earlier," and i…
Max Nisen
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How Mary Barra Went From Inspecting Fender Panels To GM's First Female CEO
Immediately after getting her MBA, she got her first job as a GM manager, running manufacturing pla…
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Before Being Named CEO, Mary Barra Did Awesome Stuff With GM's Product Line
The clearest example is the resurgence of Cadillac in the past decade, which has really accelerated…
Alex Davies
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Major Exec Leaves Renault After Saying He'd Love To Run Ford Or GM
Tavares, chief operating officer at the French auto manufacturer, said in an interview he had "the …
Laurence Frost and Gilles Gui…
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6 Daily Habits Of The World's Most Successful CEOs
And perhaps nobody embodied this creative spirit more prominently than former Apple CEO Steve Jobs.…