Karl Slym's hefty challenge at Tata Motors

Ex-head of General Motors (GM) India Karl Slym may not have realised this, but he has a few things in common with Alan Mulally, the global head of his former arch rival, Ford Motor Co. One, the......

Karl Slym: GM India's goalkeeper

The first name suggests Germanic origins but no, research shows he's British. "Or 'Britisher' as Indians like to say. I was born in Derby in the West Midlands. That's Derby with an 'e', not 'a',"......

GM's damage control strategy

On June 1, news broke out the world over that General Motors had filed for bankruptcy in a court in the United States. That day, General Motors India President & Managing Director Karl Slym gave......