Ed Whitacre

White House Reportedly Calling The Shots On GM IPO

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK/DETROIT (Reuters, By Clare Baldwin, Soyoung Kim and Kevin Krolicki) - Steve Girsky remembers sitting at his kitchen table in New York on the...

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GM To Buy AmeriCredit Corp. For $3.5 Billion To Expand Subprime Lending

AP | TOM KRISHER and DAVID PITT | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — General Motors is getting into the subprime lending business. And that means taxpayers are, too. But these car loans aren't as risky ...

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GM's Massive IPO: Are You Buying It?

Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT (AP) - Thirteen months ago, General Motors was fighting for its life in bankruptcy court. Now, the automaker is laying the groundwork to sell ...

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How Ed Whitacre Is Rebuilding General Motors

Bill George | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auto Bailout, Leadership, Business, General Motors, Gm, Ed Whitacre, Auto Industry, Business News

It's no secret I have been critical of General Motors management, right up to its bankruptcy filing a year ago. For decades, GM management focused on ...

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GM Lost $4.3 Billion In Last Half Of 2009

AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — General Motors Co., steadily returning to health after its near-collapse in 2009, said Wednesday it plans to pay off its government lo...

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GM Shows First Profit Since 2007

AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — In less than a year, General Motors Co. has roared back from bankruptcy to a quarterly profit. Now comes the hard part: Sustaining the...

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GM's New CEO: Ed Whitacre Jr., Automaker's Chairman, Will Take Top Post

AP | TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — Ed Whitacre Jr. says the main reason he's taking over as permanent CEO of General Motors Co. is to bring stability to the top of the t...

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Whitacre Has Much More to Learn as GM CEO than the Car Business

David Meerman Scott | Posted 05.25.2011

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As Ed Whitacre transitions into the full time CEO role, he's got to personally build an understanding of how people communicate online.

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GM, Chrysler Dealers Reinstated? 600 Dealerships Apply For Reinstatement

AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT — About 21 percent of the General Motors and Chrysler dealers whose businesses are being shut down by the automakers have filed paperwor...

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GM Appoints Mark Reuss As New President

Michael Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

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GM is not of the woods yet but it's clear the board is not afraid to do things differently and pave the way for a younger generation to lead the company as it moves forward.

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GM Said to Repay Government $6.7 Billion Sooner Than Required

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — General Motors Co. will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amou...

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GM Chairman Ed Whitacre: Unless Employees Take Risks, Resist Bureaucracy, "We're Not Going To Make It"

Posted 05.25.2011

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DETROIT (TOM KRISHER and DEE-ANN DURBIN --AP) - General Motors Co. Chairman Ed Whitacre Jr. urged the troubled automaker's employees to forget their o...

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GM's New TV Commercials -- Do They Grab You?

Steve Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

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I like the fact that GM, having suffered from a terrible inferiority complex for the past 20 years (often based, in truth, on some pretty bad product) seems, at least for its latest commercial, to have gotten some guts back.

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Whitacre, New GM Chairman: "I Don't Know Anything About Cars"

bloomberg.com | Amy Thomson and Katie Merx | Posted 05.25.2011

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No car experience is necessary to take a top spot at the bankrupt icon of Detroit's automobile industry. Believe it or not, the newly appointed ch...

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Edward Whitacre: Sued By Civil Liberties Group When At AT&T

forbes.com | Liz Moyer and Joshua Zumbrun | Posted 05.25.2011

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London - For whom the bell tolls? It is small surprise anti-terrorism measures have an impact on open society, though resentment breeds if the measure...

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Edward Whitacre Jr.: New GM Chairman Is Former AT&T CEO

Yahoo! Finance | Tom Krisher, AP Auto Writer | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Edward Whitacre was the son of a railroad engineer, who grew up trapping frogs and shooting rabbits, according to Business Week. DETROIT (A...

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ED WHITACRE: Former AT&T Executive Will Lead New GM Board

washingtonpost.com | Kendra Marr | Posted 05.25.2011

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General Motors announced this morning that Edward E. Whitacre Jr., the former chairman and chief executive of AT&T, will become chairman of the board ...

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Is It Fair to Call Bill Daley a Lobbyist? Well, Actually, Yes It Is

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 2005 I published a profile of Bill Daley in Chicago magazine, where I'm a contributing editor. I looked back at my research and at various drafts of the article and here's what I found.

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