汽车业七大创新领袖

    玛丽•巴拉

    通用汽车公司首席执行官。

    玛丽•巴拉是一位电气工程师，一直效力于通用汽车公司（General Motors Co.）。去年12月，她成为了首位执掌汽车制造商的女性。如今，她面临着任期内的第一个大考验：通用汽车点火开关的故障迄今为止已经造成了13人死亡，联邦政府已经就此对通用小型汽车的缺陷展开调查。巴拉的应对非同寻常，她亲自承担责任，召回了160万辆点火开关存在隐患的汽车。通用在早些时候承认，早在2004年，他们已经就知道了这个问题的存在。

    Mary Barra

    Mary Barra, CEO, General Motors Co.

    Barra is an electrical engineer and lifelong GM (GM, Fortune 500) employee who in December became the first woman tapped to run an automaker. She is facing the first major test in her tenure: a federal defect investigation of GM small cars that's so far revealed 13 deaths due to accidents caused by an apparently faulty ignition switch. In an unusual move, Barra has taken charge personally of GM's recall of 1.6 million cars with the suspect ignition. GM earlier acknowledged that it knew as early as 2004 about the problem.