Even as the smoke still hangs over the wreckage of a financial system run amok, many are asking an interesting question about leadership: can women do better?
Steve Parker | Posted 07.02.2009 | Business
The Harvard MBAs in the auto executive suites wouldn't know a good car if they got run over by one. And ultimately it's the cars which are going to save GM and Chrysler.
Steve Parker | Posted 05.31.2009 | Business
Obama talked his usual great game of absolute confidence at the end of his announcement this morning, telling the country, "If you're going to buy a new car, buy an American car."
Washington Post | David Cho, Peter Whoriskey and Kendra Marr | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business
Chrysler chief executive Robert Nardelli would be replaced by the management of Italian automaker Fiat under a bankruptcy plan that the United States ...
Washington Post | David Cho and Kendra Marr | Posted 03.10.2009 | Business
The first test case of the Obama administration's tougher executive compensation standards may very well be the man who a few years ago was a symbol o...
Diane Tucker | Posted 01.09.2009 | Business
Thanks to CEO Alan Mulally, Ford made a profit in the first quarter of 2008. What's more, Mulally saw the credit crisis coming and fought to get a line of credit for Ford way back in 2006.
Steve Parker | Posted 01.06.2009 | Business
We've had enough threats from our sworn enemies -- we don't need them from Detroit executives. These CEOs and their boards of directors must go, whether by car or jet or skateboard, they must go.
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 01.05.2009 | Business
DETROIT — Chrysler LLC Chief Executive Robert Nardelli told lawmakers considering financial support for the auto industry Friday that Chrysler w...
Michael Shaw | Posted 01.04.2009 | Media
What was completely predictable, if thoroughly heavy-handed, was the way the visual media shaped "The Return Of The Auto Executives" into a classic morality play.
MotorTrend | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business
MotorTrend looks at Chrysler's viability plan and pulls these highlights and more: • Does Chrysler have a viable plan? With our requested bridge...
Rick Horowitz | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business
On their last visit, the auto execs asked Congress for $25 billion in bailout loans. A nice round number. So nice and round that it sounded like it had been plucked from thin air.
Huffington Post | Katharine Zaleski | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business
Updated 10am EST Friday, December 5: The Big Three are back on Capitol Hill today. This time their talking to Congress about getting a multi-billion...
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 01.04.2009 | Business
WASHINGTON — Desperate U.S. automakers ran into fresh obstacles from skeptical lawmakers Thursday as they appealed with rising urgency _ and a n...
CNBC | Posted 01.03.2009 | Business
CNBC's "Power Lunch" created a funny animation of the Big Three CEOs -- Alan Mulally of Ford, Rick Wagoner of GM and Robert Nardelli of Chrysler -- dr...
Pam Atherton | Posted 12.25.2008 | Business
How these three CEO's have acted is a classic teachable moment. They've practically written the curriculum for the class on how to alienate the American public by their actions.
Steve Parker | Posted 12.23.2008 | Business
In a major win for all consumers, Democrats in the House of Representatives voted Thursday to put Rep. Henry Waxman of California in charge of a key p...
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
From the fireworks in DC this week, you might think the auto crisis is out of your hands, but we're all complicit: government, CEOs, autoworkers, the public.
AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders ordered Detroit's Big Three automakers Friday to submit what amounts to a detailed loan application to Congress ...
Huffington Post | Posted 12.21.2008 | Business
The CEOs of the nation's biggest three automakers flew to Washington DC yesterday to make their case before congress that the auto industry is despera...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
This week's bailout hearing signaled what looks like the ultimate day of reckoning for this country's once-great and world-dominating car making industry. All Americans are tired of the excuses.
ABC News | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
The CEOs of the big three automakers flew to the nation's capital yesterday in private luxurious jets to make their case to Washington that the auto i...
Steve Parker | Posted 12.16.2008 | Business
Most Americans think you have brought this disaster upon yourselves, with inferior, irrelevant products the past 35 years.
AP | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Posted 12.14.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — The auto industry and business groups mounted a lobbying onslaught Thursday to thwart GOP opposition to a Senate vote next week on ...
Steve Parker | Posted 11.29.2008 | Business
It wasn't hard to predict the demise of the "Hemi hybrid," but the end came a lot faster than expected. They should have given them a full year of production before, literally, pulling the plug.
New York Times | Nick Bunkley | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business
The automaker said that it would offer buyout and early retirement packages in the next two weeks and that layoffs would follow in December. As many a...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living