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GM CEO Mary Barra Named Most Powerful Woman For Second Year Straight

General Motors CEO and Chairwoman, Mary Barra, has received some immense recognition yet again. Fortune has ranked Barra at number one on the Most Powerful Women list for the second year in a row.

Fortune praised Barra for her handling of the ignition switch recall crisis at the automaker, reaffirmed how she has improved revenue for GM, set record profits last year and made substantial investments into Lyft for future ride-sharing endeavors. Not to mention, she signed off on the deal to purchase Cruise Automation, accelerating autonomous vehicle development at the automaker.

Despite all of these positive marks, Barra has yet to lift GM’s stock price above its initial public offering price of $33 per share in November of 2010. Currently, GM stock hovers around $31.89.

Barra was named most powerful over a list of other women executives, including Ginni Rometty, CEO, chairman and president of IBM.

Former GM Authority staff writer.

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  1. Obvious–largest company run by a female.

    For me jury still out. Will see how she performs longer term.

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    1. Yoiu wre probably raised by a male and hatched from an egg.

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      1. No sadly I like most investors do so for a return and in that respect, she has been a failure. Nothing to do with stupid comments like born under a rock. Either you produce results or you don’t!

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  2. So since she’s the most powerful woman in business… certainly her views on a female President are relevant. And certainly the open-minded readers at GMA wouldn’t mind if any of her views were posted as an article here.

    (The open minded people would be the ones clicking the thumbs up button.)

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    1. I’m open minded, but even I’ll down-vote you.

      Don’t ask for internet votes to confirm what you believe. Reality doesn’t work that way.

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      1. Thanks for that tip Grawdaddy. I’ll give you one: look up the word ‘sarcasm’

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