In the past, GM's divisions were run as separate companies, but many, including Oldsmobile, have become just brands.
Investor enthusiasm is high because GM, following its government-run bankruptcy in mid-2009, is much healthier now, with a competitive cost structure and clean balance sheet.
In March, GM will start shipping Volts that run clean enough in gasoline mode to allow owners to ride alone in the carpool lanes on California freeways, a significant selling point.
Mr. HARRY KATZ (Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University): What happens in the long run to Delphi and GM and the UAW is still very much up in the air.
Toyoda said Hogan was someone he trusted, having known him since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
Hogan, an independent consultant and former GM group vice president, has been Toyoda's friend since they worked together more than a decade ago at NUMMI, or New United Motor Manufacturing, a California auto plant jointly run by Toyota and GM.
As usual, Four Seasons has brought in a seasoned veteran to run the operation: GM James Kostecky comes from the same position at frequent award-winning sister hotels, Four Seasons Resort Chiang Mai and Four Seasons Tented Camp Golden Triangle in Thailand, and prior to joining the company, he worked in Kenya with a local hotel group.
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Not only is GM doing the heavy lifting at the table with the UAW, which may benefit them in the long run, but it's also distracting GM away from the most crucial job it has: making better cars and selling them.
Senior members of the auto task-force found Chrysler to be better run in some ways than GM.
But Europeans seem to be taking the attitude that, since there remains the slightest possibility of adverse consequences and since it is not clear how they, as consumers (as opposed to farmers and biotech firms), benefit from GM crops, they would rather not run the risk.
My assumptions are auto sales next year run around 13 million units and that GM holds market share.
Every car plant in the North America would have to run overtime to make up for the shut GM plants.
If the deal fails to win regulatory approval, GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) may have to run Hughes itself or go back to Sydney, Australia-based News Corp. (nyse: NWS - news - people ) and its Chairman Rupert Murdoch , who apparently was miffed at the way he was treated by GM's board, which ignored several of his reported ultimatums.
The alliance will be run by senior executives from each auto company, which will give GM and PSA the opportunity to get to know each other, and decide whether the initial spark can turn into something longer lasting.
Neither GM nor Toyota is developing an exclusively electric vehicle, but both are scrambling to develop vehicles that run for long stretches on electricity sucked from the grid, but with on-board gasoline-powered motors for backup.
What's interesting is the GM technology would allow you to actually plug it into the wall, charge up oversized batteries, and run almost exclusively on battery power while you're commuting.
Magna's bid was backed by Russia's state-run Sberbank and Oleg Deripaska's truck firm Gaz, and it has said it wants Opel and GM to gain 20% of the Russian market in the short term.
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