Is Fritz right man for top job at GM?

DETROIT: At the new GM, the buck now stops with the board.

The surprise decision by General Motors Co to drop a plan supported by Chief Executive Fritz Henderson to sell the company's Opel unit has raised new questions about the standing of the veteran GM insider after just six months on the job.

"It isn't clear who is running GM," said Peter Morici, a professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. "They've got a problem here."