Untitled

GM’s Mary Barra and “Real” Asset Management

Mary Barra may have the reputation of being the first female Chief Executive of a Big 8 automaker company but with the crisis that General Motors is in – would it be enough to just tell people that they are going to bounce back starting this year?

Mary Barra, GM CEO

See. Before Barra became GM’s CEO, she was the company’s EVP of Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain– which makes…

McDonald’s and the $15 strike

So, McDonald’s is charged for punishing its workers.

According to The New York Times, the charges said that McDonald’s and its franchisees illegally disciplined employees who had protested, reduced their hours, spied on them and restricted their ability to communicate with union representatives.

Regardless of McDonald’s and business groups’ protestations on the fastfood chain giant being adjudged…

Employment: Robot or Human

As technology advances, more and more jobs would be filled in by robots – from machines that administers sedatives to bellhop robots that delivers items to hotel rooms to a future of self-driving vehicles.

So, obviously what comes to mind is the displacement of humans. The increase of unemployment. As well as the question of emotional intelligence in robots and the skills development of workers.…

Sony. Racism.. and Rationality.

“Should I ask him if he liked Django?” (referring to the film “Django Unchained” which was a story about slave revenge) wrote Amy Pascal, Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman in an exchange of emails with producer Scott Rudin. Yes, they joked about the type of movies the President might like particularly those with African-American stars or themes.

Scott Rudin (L), Amy Pascal (R)

Is that…

Korean Air and Macademia Nuts

The incident of a flight attendant being forced out of a Korean Air flight from New York to Seoul has gotten the attention of many – from media to the people of Korea to the world. 

Why is this?

Korean Air’s EVP Cho Hyun-ah, who is also the daughter of the CEO, didn’t like how her macademia nuts were served. It was in a packet rather than in a bowl.

So, Cho asked the purser to leave the plane as…

Last November 27, social media was on fire with a tweet coming from Malaysia Airlines which went like this..

“Want to go somewhere, but don’t know where?” ..as we can see from the Twitter photo. Well, many felt it was simply the wrong choice of words what with flight MH370 still missing.

True. And so, the airline deleted its tweet, apologized, and explained that it was just for their year-end…

When I heard an arts advocate being included in Forbes most powerful, I took notice – just like when any entertainer or so makes it to the list.

I mean, being in arts and entertainment, what exactly makes you powerful? You don’t command an army. You don’t sit in the boardroom. You don’t lead any company. So?

Then again, our feature does lead an institution for that matter. And it’s the Qatar…

Sanofi’s Christopher Viehbacher: Fired but Recognized

Have you heard of a chief executive being fired yet the company continues his programs? Yes, of course. And not just once.

Well, that’s what happened at pharmaceutical giant Sanofi. After CEO Christopher Viehbacher steered the company to global competitiveness, the board decided to let him go yet continue on his strategies.

Viehbacher has led the way from crucial hirings to acquisitions to…

Xi Jinping has backed a plan of cutting executive pay in efforts to curb corruption and let state-owned corporations be run only by those who truly supports the party.

Do you think he’s doing the right thing?

True, corruption cuts away profits and contributes to poverty, that’s why it should be stopped. But would cutting executive pay do the trick? I don’t think so.

Instead, for those already…

Richard Broadbent and Tesco’s Profit Fiasco

What is this? An independent investigation found out that Tesco overstated its profits by $422 million as a result of accounting errors even before 2013. This means, they were actually incurring losses instead of gaining profits.

Hmm… do you think this is premeditated? If so, then its in fact embezzlement by “management.” Because, hey, an accounting error even before2013?! That’s a long time!…

Just last October 21, we all heard a loud thud from Russia. It was a plane crash. And Total’s chief executive, Christophe de Margerie was on board.

Another leader was lost.

De Margerie joined Total way back in 1974, climbed up the corporate ladder, and eventually becoming its CEO in 2007. And like many responsible CEOs, he oversaw many operations – from Indonesia to the Middle East to Kazakhstan.

Kim Jong-un. Public Appearances. Nuclear Threat.

So Kim Jong-un finally appears after more than 5 weeks of being away from the public eye. And apparently, Kim was said to have visited housing projects and was using a cane in his left hand – where speculations from having an illness to diminishing power ran about during the time of absence.

But then, what gives? So what if Kim has an illness, sure he’s going to be attended to. So what if he lost…

Hewlett-Packard: The Split Up

Yes, it’s been all over the place. Hewlett-Packard has finally split up. One has become two. What HP CEO Meg Whitman used to say that Hewlett-Packard is inseparable – as she contended that HP has this most coveted pricing power in all its markets – is no longer a fact.

It’s now Hewlett-Packard Enterprise led by Meg Whitman and HP Inc. where Dion Weislerwould be CEO. The former would be focusing…

Rosalind Brewer, Sam’s Club President and CEO

Many of us just knows that Rosalind Brewer is the first woman and African American to get a top post for a Walmart division, and that is Sam’s Club.

Rosalind Brewer of Sam’s Club

But do you also know that she’s actually a chemist? Yes, she is. At least, that’s what she finished in college and what she initially practiced before taking up management programs in renown universities – leading her to…