Editor's note: General Motors provided this text and video of CEO Mary Barra's remarks to employees this morning at a town hall meeting from GM's Warren, Mich., tech center and the media Q&A that ...

Obama singled out Barra, who took control of GM two weeks ago, as cameras trained on her. "Our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of ...

GM CEO Mary Barra today gave the most forceful and forthright speech of her short tenure, telling thousands of employees that she was "saddened and disturbed" reading the internal report detailing ...

A segment of the speech stood out because Biden somehow thought it would be a good idea to give Mary Barra, CEO of GM, credit for “electrifying the entire automobile industry.” ...

The second quote that resonates with me is from a speech she gave at the 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Barra said, "You have to be agile and adapt quickly to change." ...

The Insider’s Outsider. Barra, 52, is preternaturally energetic and likable in a down-to-earth, Midwestern kind of way. Our initial day together begins at 5:30 a.m. with an hour-long drive to a ...

Mary Barra will become the first female head of a major auto company. ... (SOUNDBITE OF SPEECH) MARY BARRA: When I was 18 years old, my friends were all working at fast food restaurants.

It’s hard to overstate how unprecedented GM CEO Mary Barra’s announcement this morning of the findings of U.S. attorney Anton R. Valukas’ investigation of the company’s ignition switch ...

UPDATE 12/5/23: General Motors CEO Mary Barra revealed that the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt EV will arrive in 2025 in a speech to the Automotive Press Association in Detroit on Monday, December ...

The EV600 van uses GM's new Ultium batteries; there's also an electric pallet. On Tuesday morning, General Motors Chairwoman and CEO Mary Barra announced a new business for the company during her ...

Trump and CEO Barra were occasionally at odds during Trump’s presidency. Back in 2020, GM announced that it would mass-produce medical ventilator equipment in support of a surge in COVID-19 ...

The speech actress Meryl Streep gave at the Golden Globes Sunday continues to generate buzz a day later.