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Nov 1, 2021 · 2011–2013. Mary Barra moves into one of GM’s most critical roles: Senior Vice President of Global Product Development. This ultimately gave her the say-so when it came to the engineering and design of GM’s products. In addition to this, she became the Executive Vice President for Global Product Development and Vice President of Purchasing ...
Apr 9, 2018 · At this year’s conference, Prof. Adam Grant hosted the keynote discussion with Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, about people management. In her 38 years at GM, Barra has been an executive assistant, plant manager, product developer, and HR leader, among other roles before she became CEO.
For years, the mantra in the capital-intensive car business has been that bigger is better. But in nearly seven years running GM, Ms. Barra has found success with an unlikely strategy: shrinking a company that for much of the 20th century was the nation’s biggest corporation by revenue and profit.
Barra's philosophy as CEO and chair, a position she's held since 2016, has been to address problems head-on. She routinely says the "best time to solve a problem is the minute you know about it."
Mary Barra's ascendance to the CEO job at General Motors—her first official day on the job was Jan. 15—is unusual for many reasons. She's the first woman to run a global automaker. She's a ...
Jackson at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con. Samuel L. Jackson is an American actor and film producer. A highly-prolific actor who starred in over 150 film roles to date, Jackson's films have collectively grossed over $27 billion, making him the highest-grossing live-action actor of all time as of 2021.
Jun 5, 2017 · Barra has worked at GM for 37 years, but she doesn’t believe that a long tenure at a company necessarily makes a potential hire a good one, nor does she think job-hopping is necessarily a negative. People often leave jobs for good reasons, she says. “Life is too short to work for a company or be in a position that you don’t love.”
