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  • 06 May 2014
  • Video

Mary Barra

  • 14 Jan 2014
  • News

Mary Barra Brings Teaming to General Motors

Keywords: teamwork; teaming; Mary Barra; General Motors; leadership; collaboration
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • News

Mary Barra and the New General Motors

  • 10 Apr 2014
  • News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Mary Barra, Is This A Catastrophic Car Wreck Or A Mere Crash Test?

  • 20 Mar 2014
  • News

Fixing a Weak Safety Culture at General Motors

  • 28 Feb 2014
  • News

Investment in Infrastructure Will Help Small Businesses Drive Economic Growth

  • Article

Culture Is Not the Culprit: When Organizations Are in Crisis, It's Usually Because the Business Is Broken

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague
When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription. That's what most everyone said GM needed to do after its recall crisis in 2014—and ever since, CEO Mary Barra has been focusing on creating "the right environment" to promote... View Details
Keywords: Culture; Cultural Reform; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Business Processes
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Lorsch, Jay W., and Emily McTague. "Culture Is Not the Culprit: When Organizations Are in Crisis, It's Usually Because the Business Is Broken." R1604H. Harvard Business Review 94, no. 4 (April 2016): 96–105.
  • 28 Mar 2016
  • News

Culture Is Not the Culprit

  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

automate its factories, Mulally borrowed $23.5 billion, convincing the Ford family to pledge its stock and the famous Ford Blue Oval as collateral. His bold move paid off. Unlike its Detroit competitors, Ford avoided bankruptcy, regained market share, and returned to... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

George says, she became an “enabler” for the whole firm. Navigate today’s challenges. Be prepared to successfully lead your company through crises and help solve difficult global problems. In 2014, new General Motors CEO Mary View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Dhivya Suryadevara (MBA 2003)

successful. Mary Barra is an incredible CEO. What we have is a management team that values meritocracy and diversity of thought. To me, it’s less about gender or where I’m from; it’s about bringing in... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 28 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities

with new EV models from VW and General Motors. “They are superior to internal combustion engine cars,” she said. And, there are efforts to make EVs more affordable. In early April of 2022, GM CEO Mary Barra... View Details
  • 12 Jan 2018
  • Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

we have people that are willing to stand up to him and do the right thing by their companies. I'm thinking somebody like Mary Barra at General Motors, where they've said you can't have a supply chain that... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

Business Is Broken By: Lorsch, Jay W., and Emily McTague Abstract—When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription. That's what most everyone said GM needed to do after its recall crisis in 2014—and ever since, CEO View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Dec 2021
  • News

Higher Returns

companies. We're talking Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mary Barra of General Motors and Larry Fink of BlackRock and Brian Moynihan from Bank of America and Tim Cook from Apple and Robert Smith from Vista Equity... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

switches.] (CEO) Mary Barra takes over. She said, "It's not only a problem we have with safety, which we're going to correct, but we've got a cultural problem and we've got to correct it," And she... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
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