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...Wagoner??s resignation is perhaps not entirely deserved, since he is certainly not the only CEO who has made bad decisions and been forced to beg the government for money. But his case is a healthy reminder that even executive positions are tied to performance. Companies—and, in the case of firms that the government has bailed out, taxpayers—reserve the right to hire and fire even top-level management as they...

Author: By Ellen C. Bryson | Title: He’s Leaving, But Not on a Jet Plane | 4/6/2009 | See Source »

...public and political pressure that led to former General Motors Chief Executive G. Richard Wagoner??s resignation may have unfairly overshadowed his part in reinventing the company after its decades-long decline, said several of Wagoner??s Harvard Business School classmates. Wagoner, who graduated from the Business School in 1977, stepped down on Monday at the request of the Obama administration, which has sought to force more rapid changes within the three beleaguered American automobile manufacturers that have received assistance from the administration’s multi-billion dollar bailout fund. GM lost $30.9 billion last...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HBS Classmates Defend Ousted GM CEO | 4/1/2009 | See Source »

Students found Wagoner??s speech helpful and relevant...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEO Talks Trade-Offs to HBS Grads | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...He’s extremely passionate about college basketball,” Kinsman says as he describes Wagoner??s decision to send a representative to Albuquerque, N.M., to try to sway the NCAA. “He served as executive chairman and literally led the corporate initiative. I think the NCAA was extremely impressed by his manner and presentation. He just does a fabulous...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEO Revamps General Motors | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

Susan Sherer, who also sat on Detroit’s NCAA committee, says Wagoner??s leadership was paramount to securing the Final Four...

Author: By Risheng Xu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CEO Revamps General Motors | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

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