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...The project has pulled together recommendations, such as encouraging compromise and listening “to understand, not to win”, and rounded up perspectives from CEOs including General Motors’ Mary Barra and Walmart...
...The 2008 financial crisis, allied to widespread acceptance that business needs to respond to climate change, means it is being asked again....
...Chapter 11 wasn’t the end for companies including Six Flags and Sbarro (twice), as well as for General Motors and Chrysler (albeit on government bailouts)....
...The company overtook Japanese rivals Nissan, Toyota and Honda to become the third highest car seller, trailing behind only General Motors and Volkswagen in the world’s largest car market....
...Among its successes is winning a $5.6m contract to upgrade business information systems for the Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation....
...Men wanted to be him; women wanted to marry him, bars wanted to serve him whisky till 2am and ambitious corporations wanted as many of him as they could grab....
...About 30 minutes drive from the city of Reno, Nevada, Tesla Motors is building the world’s biggest battery plant....
...As with the recent General Motors scandal, regulators were warned repeatedly, but the warnings were ignored....
...China Investment Corporation, the sovereign wealth fund, has 8.7 per cent of Thames Water....
...He is a past member of the board of directors for Electrocon International, The Federal Farm Credit Funding Corporation and CARI, a financial subsidiary of General Motors Acceptance Corporation and is currently...
...Brazil also has a well-funded agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, which last year launched the first GM crop developed wholly within the country: a virus-resistant bean....
...Ace and two colleagues are now being made to repay $275m to the bank’s investors. Lucy Kellaway is the FT’s management columnist...
...The Treasury said on Thursday that it would convert $5.5bn of preferred stock in Ally Financial – the new name for the General Motors Acceptance Corporation – into ordinary equity....
...The extra 1p cut in corporation tax will help firms increase investment....
...Thus the M Series BMW X3 feels every bit as sprightly – and, for Europe, has an ace up its sleeve....
...In 1919, GM pioneered the use of car financing, setting up General Motors Acceptance Corporation, which would become the world’s biggest car finance group until a majority holding was sold off by a cash-desperate...
...Consumer acceptance of Web-based cloud services for everything from e-mail to video is of course becoming universal, and companies are following suit....
...Motor racing is no forgiver of mistakes....
...Residential Capital, the home mortgage unit of General Motors Acceptance Corporation, sold $1.25bn of floating rate notes due in 2008....
...GM’s sale of its 51 per cent stake in the General Motors Acceptance Corporation marks the end of a complicated drawn-out process undertaken by the embattled carmaker as it attempts to stave off concerns...
...Moody’s Investors Service said on Tuesday that it viewed General Motors Acceptance Corporation’s (GMAC) “stand-alone” rating as a “mid-Ba level” credit – in other words, below its current Ba1 rating – and...
...An alliance of 10 of the biggest US corporations yesterday joined environmental groups to demand caps on greenhouse emissions, to cut these by up to 30 per cent over the next 15 years....
...The market welcomed his announcement last month that the company would sell a controlling stake in General Motors Acceptance Corporation, its profitable finance arm....
...General Motors Acceptance Corporation, the US carmaker’s finance arm, said on Wednesday it had agreed sell 60 per cent of its commercial mortgage business to a group of three private equity investors including...
...The third big rating agency, Fitch, still assigns an investment-grade BBB rating to Ford, but has cut GM and its financing arm, GM Acceptance Corporation, to a BB+ junk rating....
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