How the "New GM" Can Steal from Toyota
Engage Volume 11, Issue 3, December 2010
December 23, 2010
Adam Mossoff“What is good for General Motors is good for the nation.” This iconic statement by Charles (“Engine Charlie”) Wilson, the then-U.S. Secretary of Defense and former CEO of GM has long been condemned as an exemplar of corporate hubris. But last summer it achieved something even more important: It became true. When GM moved out of bankruptcy in July 2009, the federal government took a 60.8% ownership stake in this classic American automobile manufacturing company.
