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Welcome to the HBR idea cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Allison Beard.

On this show for nearly 800 episodes now, we've aimed to bring you the most cutting-edge ideas

in business, management, and leadership in ways you can understand them. And while we

gained so much insight from researchers and academics, those who study business, we also

learn a whole lot from practitioners, the people in the trenches building and running companies.

This month, we wanted to bring you a series of interviews with some of the world's leading

current and former CEOs to hear their perspectives on their most important challenges and aspirations.

Look for a new special episode of this idea cast CEO series dropping in your feed each

Thursday in May. To start, we'll hear from Mary Barra, the CEO of Automaker General

Motors. We invited her to our recent virtual conference, HBR Live, leaders who make a difference,

to talk about her commitment to a future full of electric vehicles. She was interviewed

by Amy Bernstein, the editor of our magazine. We hope you enjoy the conversation.

Hello, I'm Amy Bernstein, and I'm the editor of Harvard Business Review. I'm thrilled

to be here today with Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors. Mary rose through the ranks

of GM to become its CEO in 2014 and its chairman in 2016. The first female CEO of a major

automaker, she previously served as the Executive Vice President of Global Product Development

Purchasing and Supply Chain at General Motors. Mary has long spoken of an all-electric future

for GM. In January, she made the startling announcement that GM would completely phase

out vehicles using internal combustion engines by 2035 and will also go completely carbon

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