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...Or the cost-cutting that led to crises such as the Boeing 737 Max crash, Pacific Gas & Electric equipment which caused wildfires in California, and the General Motors ignition switch recall....
...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra, the daughter of a union machinist, comes from a family that has collectively spent more than 80 years working at the company....
...The takeover is an important step in National Grid’s switch in emphasis from gas to electricity....
...Overnight Apollo will switch from a nimble asset manager to a lumbering insurance company, with more than $200bn in assets, on which it bears the losses if bets sour....
...General Motors is backing out of a legal fight levelled by Trump’s camp that sought to bar California from setting its own fuel efficiency and zero-emission standards for vehicles, revving up for electrification...
...In 2015, Mr Glidden similarly joined General Motors at a critical moment, when it was beset by crisis....
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...General Motors’ ignition switch crisis of 2013-14, which at first looked to be the result of a bad decision on the part of a single engineer, also has its roots in a period of extraordinary budget slashing...
...General Motors Craig GliddenExecutive vice-president and general counsel Craig Glidden joined General Motors in 2015 at a time of crisis for the automotive manufacturer, after the failure of its car ignition...
...When general counsel Craig Glidden joined General Motors in 2015, it was initially to help the company through a crisis resulting from faulty ignition switches....
...Craig Glidden knew exactly what he was getting into when he joined the carmaker General Motors as its general counsel in March 2015....
...Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, professor at the Yale School of Management, says that in the league of leaders’ handling of crises, from Takata’s exploding airbags to General Motors’ faulty ignition switches, “I give...
...Everlaw Litigation over faulty ignition switches in General Motors vehicles eventually involved 31 law firms, 200 reviewers and 2.5m documents....
...General Motors has appointed former CIA official Jami Miscik to its board, the carmaker said. She’s currently the chief executive and vice-chair of Kissinger Associates, a consulting firm....
...It is an issue inflated in part by recalls related to Takata airbags and the General Motors ignition switch issues, while there are more than 3m UK vehicles currently under recall....
...General Motors said Thursday it will pay $120m to resolve state claims over faulty ignition switches, which have been linked to 124 deaths and 275 injuries and prompted a wide-ranging recall....
...General Motors claimed a significant victory in the court cases stemming from its faulty ignition switches on Friday, after the plaintiff in the first of six “bellwether” cases withdrew amid evidence he...
...Tracking stocks owe their origins to General Motors’ acquisition of the EDS IT services business from Ross Perot in 1984....
...Last September, as the VW emissions scandal broke, General Motors agreed to pay $900m to settle a criminal investigation by US regulators over an ignition switch problem that lawyers said had caused more...
...General Motors chief executive Mary Barra has tightened her position at the top of the carmaker after adding the position of chairman....
...General Motors is close to an agreement with the US justice department to settle allegations over faulty ignition switches that would largely end the company’s legal battles over the matter....
...That judgment flies in the face of a high-profile safety campaign launched by GM in the wake of a damaging global recall over fatal ignition switch defects....
...General Motors’ total bill to resolve criminal penalties and civil lawsuits stemming from an ignition switch defect that killed at least 124 people will be above $1.5bn, it has emerged....
...The news comes as NHTSA steps up its enforcement of the safety rules surrounding vehicle faults following controversy over General Motors’ botched recall of vehicles fitted with faulty ignition switches....
...Both Japan’s Takata and General Motors face federal investigations linked to faulty air bags and ignition switches, respectively, that have been linked to deaths....
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