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06/23/2026
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The link between GM's culture and the failures in the ignition switch recall
06/02/2009
Morgenson looks at the aspects of GM's culture that helped create the recall crisis in 2014.
Grouped Articles
Gretchen Morgenson on the Problems at G.M.
New York Times 06/07/2014
G.M. Report Illustrates Managers’ Disconnect
New York Times 06/08/2014
New York Times 06/11/2014
New York Times 06/02/2009
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
GM’s General Counsel to Retire
Wall Street Journal 10/18/2014
Board failures and lack of action to make much needed changes after this helped cause the economic crisis of 2008-09.
06/01/2009
Board failures at companies like Fannie Mae, Countrywide, WaMu, GM and others which led to huge losses for taxpayers, communities, and laid off employees.
Grouped Articles
New York Times 05/11/2013
The 40-Year Club: America's Longest-Serving Directors
Wall Street Journal 07/16/2013
BusinessWeek 06/01/2009
An Unfinished Chapter at Countrywide
New York Times 08/23/2014
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
What Iceberg? Just Glide to the Next Boardroom
New York Times 12/27/2009
GM's Board of Directors under Rick Wagoner and his predecessors as CEO- the absence of independent directors and different voices
06/01/2009
This is the opposite of what founder Alfred Sloan had setup as the practice of getting different and diverse opinions at board meetings and management meetings. See Sloan's account of his work at GM in his book "My Years With General Motors."
Grouped Articles
BusinessWeek 06/01/2009
Wall Street Journal 06/02/2009
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
Ford Motor and the effects of the GM bankruptcy in 2009
06/01/2009
Grouped Articles
Bragging Rights for Ford Motor
New York Times 06/01/2009
Ford Seeks to Gain Amid Rivals' Pain
Wall Street Journal 06/01/2009
Singapore's science and research park- One North
06/01/2009
Grouped Articles
BusinessWeek 06/01/2009
Research Triangle: A Model for Other Parks
BusinessWeek 06/04/2009
Apple's Siri and search engine Wolfram Alpha for structured databases
06/01/2009
Grouped Articles
Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself
New York Times 02/06/2012
Wall Street Journal 06/01/2009
Qwant Wants to Be Alternative to Google
New York Times 12/31/2014
Apple’s Siri: A Lot Smarter, But Still Kind of Dumb
WSJ 09/20/2016
How Apple’s Siri Lost Its Edge
WSJ 06/07/2017
The new Board at GM after the bankruptcy and under the leadership of Whitacre.
06/01/2009
An activist board at GM pushing for fast changes at GM.
Grouped Articles
The 40-Year Club: America's Longest-Serving Directors
Wall Street Journal 07/16/2013
BusinessWeek 06/01/2009
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
Angst Over GM's Activist Board
BusinessWeek 12/10/2009
BusinessWeek 12/02/2009
GM CEO takes bold steps He topples hierarchy, voes to repay loans.
Detroit Free Press 01/11/2010
Discussions for a new regulatory framework with single regulator for banks
05/28/2009
Discussions at the White House for a new financial regulatory framework.
Grouped Articles
Single-Regulator Plan for Banks Now Close
Wall Street Journal 05/28/2009
Financial Overhaul Raises Questions
Wall Street Journal 05/29/2009
Small Banks Hold Key to Central Piece of Regulatory Revamp
Wall Street Journal 07/31/2009
A Year After a Cataclysm, Little Change on Wall St.
New York Times 09/12/2009
Summers Says More Regulators Could Join Fed to Police Risk
Wall Street Journal 09/12/2009
Britain’s Top Financial Regulator Takes On Banks
New York Times 09/24/2009
The Norwegian experience
05/14/2009
The Norwegian experience combines frugality with technological progress and astute financial management, and leadership that charts its own course.
Grouped Articles
Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson
New York Times 05/14/2009
South Africa's economy in 2010-2014
05/14/2009
Grouped Articles
South Africa Reseeds Farm Debate
Wall Street Journal 06/29/2012
South African Economy Hit by Labor Unrest
Wall Street Journal 08/27/2013
Foreign Investment in Africa Seen at Record $80 Billion in 2014, Report Shows
Wall Street Journal 05/20/2014
Wall Street Journal 08/24/2010
South Africa's economy: How it could do even better
Economist 07/24/2010
Cup's Glow Can't Hide South Africa's Issues
Wall Street Journal 06/23/2010
Failure of the Bankruptcy code or Chapter 11 to help orderly reorganization of companies in the 2009 crisis.
05/13/2009
Chapter 11 is proving to be too slow and cumbersome to address the needs of companies in this crisis. And creditors do not have the same incentives to let a company with prospects reorganize in Chapter 11 as before, preferring instead to liquidate.
Grouped Articles
BusinessWeek 05/13/2009
Safeway management
05/08/2009
Grouped Articles
Supermarkets Try Customizing Prices for Shoppers
New York Times 08/09/2012
Safeway Shifts Tactics in Grocery Price War
Wall Street Journal 10/16/2009
Safeway's Thin Margin of Safety
Wall Street Journal 04/01/2011
Safeway Cultivates Its Private Labels as Brands to Be Sold By Other Chains
Wall Street Journal 05/08/2009
France's system and the U.S. and UK systems compared in the 2008-2009 global financial crisis
05/07/2009
Grouped Articles
Economist 05/07/2009
GM's (General Motors) efforts to change its culture under Whitacre and Akerson
06/02/2009
Grouped Articles
GM Fires Workers Over India Recall
Wall Street Journal 07/26/13
G.M. Dismisses Executives as India Begins Investigating Recall of Vehicles
New York Times 07/26/13
G.M. Names First Female Chief Executive
New York Times 12/10/13
G.M. Names Mary Barra to Oversee Product Development
New York Times 01/20/11
General Motors Names Mary Barra as CEO
Wall Street Journal 12/11/13
Wall Street Journal 08/12/10
Research and Innovation Technology Park PIIT, Monterrey, Mexico- efforts to shift upscale from manufacturing to high tech and research
06/01/2009
Grouped Articles
A Mexican Technology Park in Monterrey
BusinessWeek 06/01/09
Research Triangle: A Model for Other Parks
BusinessWeek 06/04/09
Foreclosures and impact on retailers Home Depot and Lowe's 2009-2012
06/01/2009
Grouped Articles
Retailers Feel Mixed Impact From Foreclosures
Wall Street Journal 06/01/09
Research and technology parks in Seoul, Singapore, Monterrey and other cities
06/01/2009
Grouped Articles
Research Parks for the Knowledge Economy
BusinessWeek 06/01/09
Research Triangle: A Model for Other Parks
BusinessWeek 06/04/09
Search Engine Wolfram Alpha
06/01/2009
Wolfram Alpha started by Stephen Wolfram, a research scientist, is based on a structured database which presents the data in graphical and other forms.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/01/09
Qwant Wants to Be Alternative to Google
New York Times 12/31/14
Wolfram, a Search Engine, Finds Answers Within Itself
New York Times 02/06/12
As Web Search Goes Mobile, Competitors Chip at Googleâs Lead
New York Times 04/03/13
Apple's effort in design and innovation to distance itself from Google and Samsung in 2013-2014
06/01/2009
The effort includes use of Bing as search engine instead of Google for Siri. The new Mac operating system for computers will be called Mavericks.
Grouped Articles
Wall Street Journal 06/11/13
Apple's Siri Boots Google for Bing as Search Engine
Wall Street Journal 06/10/13
Apple's Good Looks Get It Only So Far
Wall Street Journal 06/11/13
Apple's Rising Star: Craig Federighi
Wall Street Journal 06/12/13
Huawei Set to Launch New Smartphone
Wall Street Journal 06/18/13
BusinessWeek 04/22/10
A company as a team concept between younger, middle, and upper management.
05/29/2009
A company as much much more than CEO run operations. A rare CEO may make this possible but for most companies even with a rare CEO, its best run as a teamwork between all levels and ages of management with the CEO listening in to all voices. This was a cardinal rule for Alfred Sloan at GM.
Grouped Articles
What It's Like Being a Middle Manager Today
Wall Street Journal 08/12/13
Microsoft Abandons 'Stack Ranking' of Employees
Wall Street Journal 11/17/13
Lynn Good of Duke Energy, on Effective Leaders
New York Times 11/23/13
Joel Peterson of JetBlue on Listening Without an Agenda
New York Times 05/09/15
GM: Lessons from the Alfred Sloan Era
BusinessWeek 06/12/09
A Company Is More Than Its CEO
BusinessWeek 05/29/09
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor
05/15/2009
Grouped Articles
Book Review: ‘Breaking In’ by Joan Biskupic
Wall Street Journal 10/10/14
Sotomayor Guides Supreme Courtâs Liberal Wing
New York Times 12/27/10
The life of Justice Sonia Sotomayor : The New Yorker
Unknown 01/04/10
Sotomayor Confirmed by Senate, 68-31
New York Times 08/07/09
Senate Panel Votes 13-6 in Favor of Sotomayor
Washington Post 07/28/09
Sotomayor Vows ‘Fidelity to the Law’ as Hearings Start
New York Times 07/14/09
Norway and the financial crisis of 2008-2009
05/14/2009
Norway weathered the financial crisis of 2008-2009 with prudent banking policies, frugal spending, and used the opportunity to enhance investments in equities of companies around the world from its wealth fund.
Grouped Articles
Thriving Norway Provides an Economics Lesson
New York Times 05/14/09
Taxing Wall Street Down to Size
New York Times 01/20/10
Financial Outlook for Medicare in the U.S.
05/13/2009
Medicare is heading for insolvency by 2037.
Grouped Articles
Home Care Yields Medicare Bounty
Wall Street Journal 04/27/10
Toward a Different Fiscal Future
Wall Street Journal 02/08/10
Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
Wall Street Journal 10/23/09
Economist 10/15/09
Economist 08/27/09
Obama’s Pledge to Tax Only the Rich Can’t Pay for Everything, Analysts Say
New York Times 08/01/09
Safeway pricing
05/08/2009
Grouped Articles
Supermarkets Try Customizing Prices for Shoppers
New York Times 08/09/12
Safeway Shifts Tactics in Grocery Price War
Wall Street Journal 10/16/09
Safeway's Thin Margin of Safety
Wall Street Journal 04/01/11
Safeway Cultivates Its Private Labels as Brands to Be Sold By Other Chains
Wall Street Journal 05/08/09
Safeway performance
05/08/2009
Grouped Articles
Supermarkets Try Customizing Prices for Shoppers
New York Times 08/09/12
Safeway Shifts Tactics in Grocery Price War
Wall Street Journal 10/16/09
Safeway's Thin Margin of Safety
Wall Street Journal 04/01/11
Safeway Cultivates Its Private Labels as Brands to Be Sold By Other Chains
Wall Street Journal 05/08/09
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