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Did GM’s corporate culture help obscure safety issue?

Clip: 6/5/2014 | 12m 1s

Did GM’s corporate culture help obscure safety issue?

The CEO of General Motors acknowledged that the American automaker faces public outrage for its delay in acting on the deadly ignition switch problem. Mary Barra released the details of an internal report on the defect and announced that 15 employees had been fired. Judy Woodruff talks to Micheline Maynard of Forbes and Erik Gordon of the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

06/05/2014 | Rating NR

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