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...sales in the U.S. are improving, aided by cash-for-clunkers, as well as positive consumer response to the Camaro, Buick LaCrosse and Cadillac SRX. In addition, new compact crossover vehicles, the GMC Terrain and Chevrolet Equinox, have sold so well that GM is adding a third production shift at an assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ont. Since mid-September, when it began offering to take back vehicles from dissatisfied customers, only a tiny fraction of the cars GM has sold have come back to dealers, Docherty notes. "We've sold 300,000, and we've had 163 physical returns...
...does not foresee any more big layoffs in the U.S, even though the company posted a net loss of $1.2 billion during the third quarter, including special charges related to the shutdown of more than 2,000 dealerships across the U.S., support for suppliers and special employee-attrition programs at GM operations in Europe and Australia. Despite the bankruptcy, GM also owes $17 billion to governments in the U.S., Canada and Europe that supported the company during the crisis last winter. The $17 billion debt does not include $3.2 billion in notes or preferred stock that GM also owes...
...With profits still elusive, one of the criteria for judging success used by Whitacre is market share, and by that measure, GM did improve in the third quarter, as its global share increased to 11.9%, up 0.3 percentage points from the first half of the year. "I took the job with a serious level of skepticism," Whitacre noted in a recent speech in Texas. "Some five months later, I am very pleased to report that my skepticism is giving way to optimism, little by little, day by day. We are much better positioned for success than I thought possible...
General campus development in Allston, the third and final phase of the new plan, will occur “as resources allow and only after a targeted evaluative process that will begin next month.” The process will be led by a new guided Work Team “with expertise in design, urban planning, business strategy, real estate development, and public policy,” according to the letter. The committee will include Peter Tufano, senior associate dean for planning and university affairs at Harvard Business School, Bill Purcell, director of the Institute of Politics and former...
Alexander Chester and Darrell J. Bennett, Jr. are third-year students at Harvard Law School...