For the second year in a row and the fifth time overall, GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra has topped Fortune’s list of 100 Most Powerful Women (MPW) for 2025. Now in its 28th year, this annual list ranks the 100 most powerful women in the business world “reflecting corporations’ global scope and the nature of executives’ work, which spans the planet.”
The methodology for the Fortune MPW list is based on five criteria: the size and health of an executive’s business, her career trajectory, her influence outside her organization, and how she wields her power. This is the fifth time Mary Barra has been number one on this list, also getting the top spot in 2024, 2021, 2017, and 2015. Although not number one every time, Barra has earned a spot on this list every year since 2014, when she became GM’s CEO.
Fortune says after dealing with the COVID-induced supply chain crisis, autoworker strikes, and the Cruise debacle, the second Trump administration’s trade agenda “puts her leadership to the ultimate test.” The magazine praises Barra for GM’s stock price only dipping four percent amid tariff uncertainty.
Fortune highlights some of GM’s wins throughout 2024, like its record revenue up nine percent compared to 2023, doubling its electric vehicle market share in the United States market, and, into 2025, ramping up domestic manufacturing as part of a broader strategy to manage the costs of new tariffs.
“GM’s future success may hinge on Barra’s ability to run a tight ship during a volatile political moment while staying innovative,” says Fortune.
In last year’s honors, Fortune praised Mary Barra for her long tenure as CEO of GM. She hit her 11-year mark in the top job this year, while the average tenure for a Fortune 500 CEO is 7.2 years for men and 4.5 years for women. She’s been the Chair and CEO of GM even longer than Roger B. Smith, who was CEO for nine years and Chairman for 10 back in the 80s and 90s.
Other women toward the top of Fortune’s MPW list for 2024 include Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, and AMD CEO Lisa Su.
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Would have been impressive in the 1960’s.
Now, made into an appliance store? Mehh . They have dogs that can ride a skateboard….
She’s an overpaid wokester, who’s mismanaged GM. She killed the Volt at time when hybrids are trending up. She’s killed good models -the Impala, Malibu, CT4 and CT5 and more- giving up more share to the competitors. She needs to go.
You really make me sick. If you were to read the story of the “VOLT. You would know it was cancelled because the general public wasn*t buying them. Climate activists
were in their infancy. Must like you are right now. Time to change your DIAPER.
And the general public is breaking down the doors to buy GM’s EVs?
Why don*t you have the guts to post your name. No one is stopping you from becoming boss of G.M. How about backing up your comments with proof . You “MALE CHOVANIST PIG. ” I*m a REAL MAN. Not a GIRLY MAN. Go Ms BARRA Go.
Real men know how to spell. Ask your wife for permission to enroll in an adult literacy course.
I new if I put out the right bait. I would catch a SUCKER FISH. You know how to spell.
Good for you. MACHO MACHO MAN You want to be a MACHO MAN. PATHETIC COMMENT>
Grow up.
The Kathleen Kennedy of the auto industry?
What are you BABLING about???
We will never achieve true equality in this nation as long as we have “top female” this, or “top minority” that. Why not have- like in this case- a “most powerful PERSON recognition.
Barf!! Ever since she took over GM has become stagnant. They don’t offer anything exciting except the corvette and now have made that car out of most peoples price range. So sad. The C6, C7 were affordable sports cars that many high middle class people could own.….sad
And now no Camaro?!?! Pathetic.
cant agree more, all they made are big old suv buses, or crapbox 4 cylinder plastic boxes. Hardly any coupes or sedans. They ve become the Sunbeam appliances of the auto industry. Have been driving GM all my life, next go around, if she doesnt change the line up,it wont be a GM vehicle. Not everyone wants a ugly, wheezy, 4 cylinder, front drive crap hauler suv.
If so why are G.M. selling record number of vehicles including e.v.s. Mr. Expert.
Cars are not appliances. MAN are you ever F—ed up. Factory worker*s handbook.
18 of you . Really??. Not suggesting “MONKEY SEE MONKEY DO”. OO OOO OOO.
Where is my bananas. Before We go totally “BANANAS?? Your comments are what is CRAPOLA.
Where have you been??. G.M. started making record profits year after year increasing every year since Ms. Mary Barra took over G.M. Look back at history. Your gelousy is what*s sad. Sheldon Cooper.
BFD.
“Most overpaid woman” more like it. She has basically downgraded gM to a boring irrelevant brand of crossovers and trucks with fat price tags and unreliable V8 engines. Even worse you literally can’t walk into a Chevy dealer and buy that thing called a sedan, a stick shift transmission, an affordable sport coupe or convertible and so many more product holes it’s insane. Lack of interior colors, poor quality, lack of choice, Buick as an irrelevant brand of only crossovers and now Cadillac as overpriced EV only toys makes gM look like idiots. Ford isn’t much better but at least had the sense to keep its ICE Mustang in both convertible and coupe form and offers its customers hybrid, pHEV and optional higher output engines nlike much of gM’s corrovers. Pathetic
Spot on. GM has abandoned the consumers that have made them what they are. Don’t forget that she said that “GM is a software company now”. She is 100% in on the future being autonomous EVs. What’s the saying about eggs and baskets?
Folks, go get a Blackwing now if you can.
and quick. Ive kept my CTS Vsport, and love it….
Some thing is insane. BUTT it isn*t the product holes if you get our drift. It*s not G.M. that looks like idiots dare BUDDY
You must be single + hate all women. Wonder why your single?? Your name is
yoman. You sound more like a WO MAN. or GIRLY MAN. Pathetic is rite we agree with you.
If you can*t DAZALLE them with BRILLIANCE BAFFLE dem with “MANURE. TONS
OF IT. Not saying joe yoWOMAN. Da “MACHO MACHO MAN ” Village people member of course. He is never boring.
Time to fire mary barra.
Well, you have to admire her. She’s accomplished in just 11 years something all the previous male executives haven’t been able to achieve, she’s destroyed the once greatest automotive giant in the world.
spot on, all they talk about in the article is money, stocks, money. Nothing about what they produce, which frankly, is boring as hell, except for the CT4 and CT5 which will be replaced soon…ugh
Stock price is an almost worthless measurement today anyway. The hedge funds move money around wherever they want and control every company in the S&P 500.
Especially when Barra spent tens of billions of dollars in stock buybacks to artificially prop up the price of the stock while the product lineup has been pruned down to nothing but trucks and soulless appliance- like crossovers.
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“Most powerful” and, based on results and massive recalls and mechanical failures, the Most INEPT !
Here is a history lesson for all you “CRY BABIES”. Your “DIAPERS” are bursting full of it just like you. Diaria of the mouth + pen. G.M. wins 2024 Record revenue up 9 % compared to 2023.Doubling electric vehicle market share in U.S. + into 2025. Wake up this 2025 not 1983. What ” MIRACLES” have you done in last 11 years. other than “Miracles” of jelousy + misinformation?? Can you be more FULL OF Sh_T.
yet she hasnt fixed production or quality problems. After 5yrs still can’t build the Corvette in a timely manner, there seems to be a recall or problem issue notice every week across the board and my stock price only changes about $2 either way for the past 20yrs not to mention trying to stuff EV’s down our thriats that no one wants. And she’s grest again -why???
Fortunes Most Powerful Woman. How nice🙄
Killed off a full-sized luxury sedan in the US, but developed it in the US for China. Killed off the affordable full-sized family sedan of the Impala, killed off the Camaro by making it out of reach for the people who want a fun sporty coupe and gives us nothing but boring CUV’s, SUV’s, a pickup truck for everyone who thinks they need it to take to a sports practice, least we forget the EV’s that no one wants and how about the Celestiq sedan that only the ultra-rich can afford, but don’t want. Buick is on life support, unless you are in China. She thinks a luxury sedan is a CT4 or CT5 that cannot fit 4 people, but let’s price them sky high to see what we can suck out of people.
I’ve had GM products for 58 years, starting with a Camaro and finishing now with a Cadillac CT6 and everything in between, Buick, Oldsmobile and GMC. If we have to replace the CT6, I’ll be shopping for a full-sized ICE sedan.
Should be on most fired list.
S. “YOUR FIRED”. She can*t be on most fired list. You are in the top spots all the time FOREVER.
Not SUGGESTING you will ever even get hired. Not SUGGESTING YOU AIR HEAD YOU. get a job.
May be one of the most powerful women in business, but far from being one of the smartest.
Lots of the usual “I personally don’t like what GM [insert gripe here] is doing, so the whole company must therefore be [insert my opinion here], and it’s all Barra’s fault’. The reality, as measured by data, not opinion, is of course the opposite. Which is why you never see data, e.g.sales, market share, eps, revenue, earnings, etc, with any of those opinions because it won’t back up the talk. So the talk can be ignored.
Thank You digitalfutur. Finally someone with some common sense.
Totally aGRRE WITH YOU. gOLD STAR BY YOUR NAME.
Kamala 2.0
Kamala 2.0. What you are really saying is “Who*s on Second ?? Who*s On First??.
Makes sense to you some how. ELECTRO24. Get recharged you is running low on power.
So LOW you don*t make sense. Try sticking your finger in a ELECTRICAL SOCKET.
The shock may help you.
Give us a person who is qualified to see what the people want
She should be fired for the V8 debacle