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General Motors' two-degree turnaround

By Rick Newman

Posted: July 28, 2006

Rick Wagoner might have been boasting too soon. When General Motors recently announced second-quarter earnings that surprised and impressed Wall Street, the CEO crowed, "Conventional wisdom is that you can't turn a ship as big as GM around quickly. We aim to prove that conventional wisdom wrong."

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Justin Ewers is a senior editor in the Money & Business section at U.S. News & World Report, where he covers small business, Silicon Valley, and executive management. Most recently, he has written about eBay's growth strategy and Garmin's dominance of the GPS market. His cover stories for the magazine have tackled subjects ranging from Abraham Lincoln's boyhood to the latest trends in college admissions. He also reviews books occasionally for the Washington Post. Ewers earned both a bachelor of arts and a master of arts in history at Stanford University.

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