General Motors Corporation

More Time for Work? Let the Car Drive Itself

If only we could get work done on the way to work! In the next decade, the idea might become a reality. In business, the opportunity to let the car do the dr...  Read more

GM, Chrysler and How Not to Build a Valuable Company

Want to destroy value? Create a cash-guzzling, labor-intensive, commoditized business.  Read more

How Would You Fix GM and Chrysler?

Chrysler and GM, two companies that once changed the face of the automotive industry in America, are bankrupt. How can the automakers get back on track? Five...  Read more

Does Detroit Deserve a Bailout?

A Big Three collapse could cripple many small businesses with ties to the automotive industry. We asked several Inc. 500|5000 CEOs for their opinions about a...  Read more

Boutique Automakers Find Success Where Big Three Struggle

Despite industry woes, American car and motorcycle entrepreneurs have prospered by pursuing the high-end -- and high-speed -- specialty market.  Read more

All Hail These Cabbies

Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: M...  Read more

U.S. Automakers Still Struggle with Small Suppliers

Facing mounting pressure over offshoring, just 5% of suppliers cited General Motors as preferred partner.  Read more

How Would You Fix General Motors?

One suggestion: a 100 percent money-back guarantee on all new cars.  Read more

Disaster Management 101

Is it time for FEMA and the Read more

Health-Care, Job Cuts at GM Bad News for Suppliers

Oct. 19, 2005 --A deal struck Monday by General Motors and the United Auto Workers to slash health-care costs after the U.S. automaker pos...  Read more

General Miasma

What's good for General Motors may no longer be good for the USA. Hell, it might not even be good for Liechtenstein. Recently, a media brouhaha broke out ...  Read more

No One Asked Me But...

The business press hasn't quite known what to make of GM's recent promotion, which offered consumers the same "insider" price on its showroom-languishing ...  Read more

How to Get Rich in America

Climb the ladder or start your own company: which is the surest path to financial security for you and your family?  Read more

Fame

Profiles of celebrity CEOs and the repercussions of recognition and publicity.  Read more

Pricing For Profit

Whenever you're tempted to cut prices, it's probably time to start raising them  Read more

Caddy Shack

Companies from far and wide are lining up at Sewell Village Cadillac to learn a thing or two about bringing customers back for more  Read more

Economist;

His "share economy" may be the best new idea since Keynes: substituting profit sharing for fixed wages as a cure for unemployment.  Read more

Tow-away Zone

Chrysler, Ford, and GM have seen the future, and it is not parked in the garage. As the Big Three diversify, small companies have plenty to fear.  Read more

Speaking Terms;

USER-FRIENDLY THOUGH THEY might be, many computers aren't speaking to one another. Their incompartibility has been wreaking havoc in many offices, but th...  Read more

Sometimes Opposites Attract

Two decades ago, two major auto companies -- Chrysler Corp. and General Motors Corp. -- had already diversified into permanent magnet production ("Towaway...  Read more

Putting The Customer In The Driver's Seat

Rob Mancuso's approach to running his dealership is so successful that he has begun to package parts of it for sale. Even competitors are lining up to buy.  Read more

John De Lorean And The Icarus Factor

Endowed with a reputation for genius by an adoring press and public, John De Lorean came close to pulling off an entrepreneurial miracle. But this ego, like ...  Read more

Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM)

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) makes equipment or components that are then marketed by its client, another manufacturer or a reseller, usually u...  Read more

Strategy

Related Terms: Business Planning "Strategy...  Read more

Would You Buy a Car From These Guys?

A survey finds most Americans would steer clear of bankrupt automakers.  Read more

Twitter Gets GM's Attention; Second Life Lives Again

GM bows to the power of Twitter. Hard to believe that the once powerful auto giant would ever listen to feedback from a bunch of microbloggers, but...  Read more

Woe is a Bankrupt Dinosaur

The largest auto supplier in the country, Delphi, filed for bankruptcy...  Read more

Capitol Ideas

Entrepreneurs take note: When it comes to economic development, the serious business isn't getting done in Washington, D.C., these days.  Read more

Horse? What Horse?

Don't blame the government. The auto industry has brought the problems it faces on itself by making products that lack quality and cater to auto executiv...  Read more

The Change Masters, By Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Simon Schuster, 1230 Avenue Of The Americas, New York, Ny 10020, 432 Pp., $19.95.

The major difference between the old corporate ethic and the new, says this Yale professor and management consultant, is that the former expected workers ...  Read more

Makes You Wanna Holler

A quote from Steve Mariotti on the obstacles to inner-city entrepreneurship.  Read more

Company Profile: Crash Course

A close-up look at how an entrepreneur took over a company developing automobile collision-avoidance technology.  Read more

Getting It Together

In "Unlimited Partners," Joel Kotkin identifies an important facet of the strategy for companies that compete in increasingly volatile and sophisticated m...  Read more

Sunstroke

Winning the Pentax World Solar Challenge proved a bit of a problem for our boys from John Paul Mitchell Systems Inc. (see "Are We Having Fun Yet?" October...  Read more

There's A Robot In Your Future

Increasingly, robots are turning up in smaller companies -- and so far there are few complaints.  Read more

Are Business Schools Teaching Business?

More students want to be entrepreneurs, but their professors are turning them into bureaucrats.  Read more

With all five indexes trending down, plus two of three groups of new issues, this month's Investing in Growth Companies paints one of the saddest pictures...  Read more

A Look at the Losers

The standouts on this year's list are the cities that know how to attract entrepreneurs.  Read more