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Frederick "Fritz" Henderson will not have the luxury of a honeymoon phase. The new interim CEO of General Motors - whose predecessor, Rick Wagoner, resigned March 29 at the behest of the White House - inherits a company in disarray. Over the next 60 days, Henderson must engineering some kind of comeback for the sputtering carmaker, amid the glare of the media spotlight and mounting public outrage over disappearing auto jobs. (Read "Will Wagoner's Exit Put GM on the Road to Recovery...
...Henderson's own history will be both an asset and a liability in his new post. A company lifer, he has presided over GM's growth in regions around the world, earning accolades as a talented, tough and steady leader. But as a consummate insider who formerly served as President and COO, he must also shake the public perception that feckless leadership has played a large part in GM's slide toward insolvency. Henderson is known for keeping his cool in tough spots, but there are few hotter seats in the business world than the one he's just landed...
...Henderson, a 50-year-old Detroit native, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1980. A decorated student (he earned high distinction studying business administration), Henderson was also a talented athlete, though he posted an unsightly 5.91 ERA pitching for the Wolverines' baseball team as a senior. (He has since cited his biggest regret as not possessing "a 97-mile-per-hour fastball...
...build on its advantage. “We kept scoring each inning,” freshman first baseman Whitney Shaw said. “We didn’t have one standout inning but we kept the pressure on the entire game.”Sophomore outfielder Emily Henderson got Harvard’s action started in the second inning when she came home on a wild pitch by Quakers pitcher Emily Denstedt. Sophomore Ellen Macadam scored just moments later to end the inning with a 2-0 advantage for the Crimson. Though Penn managed to score in the fourth...
...Brown. The freshman allowed just two baserunners, with Columbia’s only hit coming on a Keli Leong second-inning single, and she struck out the side in the second, fourth and seventh. Harvard went down in order in the third, fourth and fifth, and although sophomore Emily Henderson drew a leadoff walk in the sixth, she couldn’t advance past second base.“I think we’re going to try to switch up the lineup and spread out our hitters who have been hitting the ball well,” Vertovez said...