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G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
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Actions taken by GM in response to the 2014 recall crisis
03/18/2014
This includes appointment of a vice president for Vehicle Safety who reports directly to CEO Barra. Barra takes personal responsibility for the recall.
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New York Times 03/18/2014
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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.
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Gretchen Morgenson on the Problems at G.M.
New York Times 06/07/2014
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New York Times 06/08/2014
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G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
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GM (General Motors) June 2014 recall of 3 million cars with faulty mechanisms for keys that turn off cars and deactivate air bags
06/16/2014
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G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
Edward Whitacre, the new chairman of GM (General Motors)
06/09/2009
Edward Whitacre is brought in by the Obama administration to lead GM's recovery. What sort of a man is he, and what do peers, experts and others think of him? Where is he from? A sleepy railroad town in Texas called Ennis where his father was alocomotive engineerfor 50 years, and who wanted his son to get the education that he himself had missed out on. Whitacre went on to Texas Tech in Lubbock mostly because it was $75 for tution. Through this story by Tim Higgins of the Detroit Free Press one can see the changes that are expected at GM. The kind of culture change where egotistical lead board members like George Fisher who called himself Eastman the Second at Eastman Kodak in 2008, is now the place where the throroughly informal with little ego Whitacre now walks around opnely talking to GM employees.
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G.M. Report Illustrates Managers’ Disconnect
New York Times 06/08/2014
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
GM Names Former AT&T Chief as Chairman
Wall Street Journal 06/09/2009
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New York Times 06/10/2009
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."
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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
Mary T. Barra, succeeding Dan Akerson as CEO of U.S. auto company GM (General Motors) in 2014
01/20/2011
The president's position goes to CFO Ammann, 41, Mark Reuss assumes Barra's position as head of Global Product Development. Former Cummins CEO and chairman Mr. Solso will take up the chairman position at GM. Barra joined GM as a co-op student and was plant manager and head of human resources before heading product development. Akerson carefully prepared the transition saying it was like seeing a daughter graduate from college.
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"No place in Michigan"- Morgenson of the NYT on aspects of the culture at GM (General Motors) leading to the recall crisis of 2014
06/07/2014
After the triple bankruptcies in Michigan of GM, Chrysler and the city of Detroit, the lost decade for Michigan and the continuing struggles of young people to find good job opportunities, there is no place in Michigan for the failed cultural practices of the past. Morgenson describes some of the practices at GM that led to the recall crisis of 2014. Other aspects of the same culture led to the bankruptcy at GM. The NYT columnist also takes up the issue for cultural practices in other parts of the country, in the financial industry based in New York- and in London, UK.
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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
G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
GM (General Motors) and the ignition switch recall of 2014
03/05/2014
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U.S. Increases Pressure on GM Over Long Delay in Auto Recall
Wall Street Journal 03/06/2014
A Call for General Motors to Fill Gaps in Safety Inquiry
New York Times 03/05/2014
Congress to Investigate GM Recall
Wall Street Journal 03/11/2014
House to Investigate Slow Response to Fault in G.M. Vehicles
New York Times 03/10/2014
GM Shares Tumble Amid New Investigations
Wall Street Journal 03/12/2014
G.M. Reveals It Was Told of Ignition Defect in ’01
New York Times 03/12/2014
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.
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G.M.’s Board Is Seen as Slow in Reacting to Safety Crisis
New York Times 09/07/2014
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New York Times 12/27/2009
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01/24/2008
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Wall Street Journal 09/10/2013
Wall Street Journal 01/09/2009
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
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.
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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
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GM CEO takes bold steps He topples hierarchy, voes to repay loans.
Detroit Free Press 01/11/2010
GM CEO Barra's testimony in the U.S. Congress on the failed ignition switch leading to recalls of GM cars
04/02/2014
Members of the U.S. Congress question Barra about a 2005 memo showing GM failed to correct the defect in the switch because it would cost 90 cents per car and the warranty-cost savings were only 10-15 cents per car. This is similiar to the thinking at BP and Toyota leading to hugely costly recalls and a dent in reputation.
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GM's Barra Says Failure to Fix Switch 'Very Disturbing'
Wall Street Journal 04/02/2014
G.M. Places 2 Engineers on Leave in Inquiry
New York Times 04/10/2014
G.M. Documents Reveal Years of Talks on Defect
New York Times 04/11/2014
Some at GM Brass Told of Cobalt Woe
Wall Street Journal 04/13/2014
GM Recall Probe to Blame Cultural Failings
Wall Street Journal 06/05/2014
G.M. Says Inquiry Found ‘Pattern of Incompetence’
New York Times 06/05/2014
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