Time Magazine is acknowledging Barra by naming her one of its "100 Most Influential People" for 2014, and Barra is even on one of the available covers. Author: Chris Bruce ...

The challenges they face are anything but new. Mary Barra, the first-ever female CEO of a major global automaker, has boldly accepted responsibility for an ignition defect that resulted in 12 deaths.

General Motors CEO Mary Barra confirmed that the Justice Department interviewed her last year as part of sweeping investigations into ignition switch recalls that have been blamed for 111 deaths ...

Barra became the auto industry's first female CEO in January and promptly faced GM's largest vehicle recall ever (29 million so far) from a faulty ignition switch linked to at least 13 deaths ...

And in the meantime Barra has tripled profits, to $13.9 billion, in less than three years as CEO. Sure, the stock price has been stuck in neutral, but Barra has engineered a dramatic, seemingly ...