Mary Barra, the Ambivalent One Responsible for Driving General Motors' Electric Jump

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It is as if she had been born for the job. Or if, at least, she had been raised for it. Mary Barra (Royal Oak, 63) is from the state of Michigan, the cradle of the American car, and daughter of a worker with more than three decades of experience in General Motors. She has also held the position of executive head of the firm for 13 years, in which she has had time to live almost everything. From some other scandal, to the intensification of the b…