For years Wall Street had been downright hostile to the acquisitive ambitions of Chairman Whitacre.
Whitacre vows that earnings per share will grow 10% or better for three years straight.
Whitacre has remained married to his high school sweetheart, Ginger, all through this experience.
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Ed Whitacre is a good leader and he made an incremental improvement to the organization.
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Add to that new remarks by former GM CEO Ed Whitacre about Chevrolet Volt.
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Whatever the outcome, Sandi Cote-Whitacre said she and her spouse are willing to be patient.
"Today the U.S. is eleventh in the world in broadband deployment, " said Edward Whitacre Jr.
Whitacre had times over his nearly 9 years of incarceration that held promise of an earlier release.
Visibility was low in Fairview, Oklahoma, midway between the Panhandle and Oklahoma City, said Brandi Whitacre.
Whitacre, who has been out of prison for 5 years now, reflected back on his time in prison.
In 1992, Whitacre, an executive at the agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland, was part of a price-fixing scheme.
He takes a daily stroll with Mark Whitacre, the Archer Daniels Midland whistle-blower who is serving a ten-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud.
However, January 2001 came and went leaving tax fugitive Marc Rich a free man, but Whitacre behind bars.
"There's not much growth in our business without a new product, " Whitacre says.
"I think he wants to be remembered as someone who did something good for his fellow man, " Whitacre says.
Visibility was low in Fairview, Oklahoma, midway between the Panhandle and Oklahoma City, said CNN iReporter Brandi Whitacre.
Bobbi Cote-Whitacre's mother, then 89 years old, walked the couple down the aisle.
As if on cue, SBC's Whitacre yesterday provided concrete evidence that Seidenberg was not just talking through his hat.
It is something he wrote about in a book he wrote with Stevin Hoover, Mark Whitacre Against All Odds.
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That will require Whitacre to mine new growth from all he has assembled--even as he mulls pursuing one last big deal.
Whitacre Jr. keeps a Texas-size ranch house, five man-made ponds stocked with hungry bass, and a beaten-up bulldozer built in 1955.
"Whitacre is there, in part, to provide tutelage, " says Craig Aronoff, co-chairman of the Family Business Consulting Group in Marietta, Ga.
"Whitacre is there, in part, to provide tutelage, " says Craig Aronoff, cochairman of the Family Business Consulting Group in Marietta, Georgia.
At first, we think that Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon, with a wavy pompadour and steel-rimmed glasses) is the epitome of Midwestern square.
Ed Whitacre will step down as Chief Executive of General Motors on Sept. 1, passing the role to board member Dan Akerson.
Jay Whitacre, a Carnegie Mellon professor as well as founder and chief technology officer of Aquion, is trying to change the equation.
Whitacre is also making a difference through his volunteer work with JPW3 prison ministries and The Sean Costello Memorial Fund for Bipolar Research.
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If the Wall Street Journal is to be believed, there's a whiteboard in Whitacre Tower with Dish, Leap and MetroPCS written all over it.
In a statement announcing the merger, Whitacre outlined the company's strategy.
Mr Whitacre replaced or shifted 12 of GM's top 13 executives.
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