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...From apartheid-related cases against Daimler, Ford and General Motors to human rights cases against Exxon and Rio Tinto, claimants have invoked the law more than 150 times in the past 20 years....
...Shareholder primacy, the idea that a corporation’s role is to maximise shareholder wealth above all else, has its roots in a 1919 Michigan Supreme Court case, Dodge v. Ford Motor Co....
...Motors and Chrysler last year, used a method of industrial innovation called kaizen, usually translated as “continuous improvement”....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...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...
...General Motors and Ford lost 12.8 per cent to $8.51 and 13.3 per cent to $4.17, respectively....
...Thus freed, General Motors and Ford have directed their energy and talent into selling highly profitable – and highly inefficient – sports utility vehicles and light trucks....
...The emerging turnround of Daewoo Motors, once a failing member of the now-defunct Daewoo chaebol but now a thriving affiliate of US-based General Motors, is serves as an example....
...The case has split regulators, corporations and the legal profession right down the middle. If they can agree on one thing, it is that the stakes could not be higher....
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