General Motors CEO Mary Barra has been recognized many times during her time as the automaker’s chief executive, but for the third year running, she’s been named the most powerful woman.
Fortune compiles the list yearly, and Barra has been on top for the last three years. The publication notes her tremendous attitude to shift perceptions at the automaker, which was long plagued by poor management and questionable quality control. She’s placed at the top for a number of reasons this year.
The publication notes she beat Tesla to the electric-car market with the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, GM acquires self-driving startup Cruise Automation under her watch and Maven, the automaker’s car-sharing service, continues to expand.
All of this has led to positive growth for the automaker. GM share prices are up 25 percent in the past 12 months and revenue has increased 9 percent. For that, she remains at the top for another year.
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I support Elizabeth Warren, Kirsten Gillibrand, and Amy Klobuchar, any one of them for President 2020.
I am extremely happy that Barra won this award this year, and not some bank-addled election-primary-swindling Wasserman-Schultz-favored blame-everybody-else-in-a-book person.
HER is so clueless.
She wrote a book called ‘What happened’. The only people who aren’t aware of what happened are her supporters who refused to vote for Bernie. Everyone ELSE I(left, indie, right, and even the fascists) knows exactly what happened.
In HRC’s continued cluelessness she believes explaining the already understood HER way helps somebody besides herself. What she just demonstrated (yet again) is she has no idea where her own party is.
If her book was entitled, “United States Against Trump Supremacists” she’d have been on the page her campaign should have been. She should be leading a resistance movement with no peer. Not as a ‘sore loser’ but as a simple patriot. Sir Cheeto has HANDED her this opportunity and instead she’s conciliatory and collegiate.
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No, my wife is the most powerful, smartest woman their is.
Real power or ‘perceived power’ because Mary Barra still has to answer to the Board of Directors and Stockholders of General Motors as too many mistakes can easily result in Barra being tossed to the curb.
Please. Sofia Vergara could Tweet that she wants Mary’s job and have it by next Wednesday.
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Big world out there. Plenty, plenty of competition. Much and many variables on huge, huge decisions on the designing and building of land transportation. All we need to remember/work at is the BUYING PROCESS, BUT, MARY has tons of forces challenging her ever move. GOOD FOR MARY ON THIS ‘award’. Now, for us, remember we live, work, pay taxes in America, so support that effort even when it means ‘compromising’ SLIGHTLY. …….. just saying. ………. gene
The most powerful woman is the one who has you in the palm of her hand.
Mary Barra can demonstrate her power by withstanding a few months of Chevrolet Equinox shortages if necessary and letting the two Equinox factories in Mexico slowly get up to speed while crushing Canada’s Unifor union and threaten to close the CAMI facility in Canada unless they return to the bargaining table without any conditions.
Or the one you love and would do anything for. Makes me like a guard dog.
No she isn’t. She is a stooge, building up manufacturing in our potential enemies while destroying manufacturing here. The US was successful in WW2 because we had manufacturing capabilities that were adapted. What do we have now?
She should be arrested for Treason.
She has sold out the US for personal gain.
Not much different than Obama getting a Nobel Peace prize after he took office and had done nothing.
I do not trust her.