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In Conversation with Dan Akerson

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Dan Akerson reflects on competition, transition, and reinvention across five decades of American industry.

In Conversation with Dan Akerson Conversation No. 006 The 100 Year Conversation Published June 13, 2026 Guest Dan Akerson General Motors (117 yrs) Subscribe I I n 1970, a kid from Mankato, Minnesota, graduated from the United States Naval Academy and began a career that would take him through some of the most important industrial transitions in modern American business. Dan Akerson spent five years as a surface warfare officer in the Atlantic Fleet before joining Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. From there, he was sent to Europe, where he worked offshore in the North Sea, helped s

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