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EVALUATION OF THE GENERAL MOTORS
CORPORATION

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General Motors Corporation

Introduction
General Motors Corporation is more than just cars and trucks. This corporation is involved in Telecommunications, Aerospace, Defense, Financial and Insurance Services, Locomotives, Automotive Systems and Heavy Duty Automatic Transmissions. General Motors comes in second on the Fortune 500 list behind only Wal-Mart, with total revenues of over 186,736 million dollars. This massive corporation employs over a quarter million people, and has thousands more wishing they could work for this industry leader (Fortune, 2003).
Company Background
Under Billy Durant's leadership, General Motors Company is organized in 1908, incorporating the Buick Motor Company. Olds Motor Works was sold to GM on November 12, 1908, and a few months later GM also bought out Cadillac Motors for 5.5 million dollars. During the next 80 years General Motors......

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