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...DIED. JAMES M. ROCHE, 97, a 44-year veteran of General Motors Corp. who rose from statistician to chairman and ceo; in Belleair, Florida. Roche was credited with expanding equal opportunity at the company, including bringing in GM's first African American board member, but he was also forced to issue a public apology in 1966 for the company's efforts to discredit consumer advocate Ralph Nader, whose book Unsafe at Any Speed questioned the safety of GM's Corvair...
...chair of General Motors (GM) G. Richard Wagoner offered encouragement and advice to the graduating class of the Harvard Business School (HBS) yesterday afternoon in a Class Day speech on the lawn of Baker Library...
Wagoner received an undergraduate degree in economics at Duke University in 1975 and a master in business administration from HBS in 1977. After 29 years at GM, Wagoner stepped up as CEO and chair slightly over a year ago. He has become known for managing his employees more like a coach than a boss, and for streamlining production at the company...
Nevertheless, Wagoner faced a formidable challenge—steering GM through a weak economy and jittery investment period...
Since Wagoner took the wheel at GM, he has instituted a fresh set of policies...