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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
a dealer’s back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the...
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Charles A. Coffin
Coffin led General Electric into the production of other electrical products besides arc lights, including railway motors and alternating generators and transformers. In the...
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Fabricated Goods
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
(both MBA 1992) have written, produced, and directed Live Another Day, a documentary in the spirit of Inside Job that delves into the government bailout of General Motors and the Chrysler-Fiat merger through...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
Photography by King Lawrence Jay Rogers (MBA 2007) is holding a manager’s meeting while driving 70 mph up I-75 in Kentucky. As Rogers pins his phone horizontally against the dashboard, his Local Motors team, gathered around a conference...
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John G. Smale
Known for his patient managerial style, Smale worked at Procter & Gamble for 38 years. Under Smale's leadership as CEO, P&G's earnings and stock price doubled while the company expanded abroad and into higher margin products. Two years after retiring as...
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Personal Care & Home Products
Frederic G. Donner
An accountant by training, Donner was recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds in business. His overwhelming command of the financial aspects of running GM led him to set new records for sales, profitability, and dividend payments. He is principally credited...
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Automotive & Aerospace
Walter P. Chrysler
In 1924, Chrysler created a car, which bore his name, and offered new innovations to the automobile, including the four-wheel hydraulic brakes and a high compression engine. In 1928, Chrysler purchased the Dodge Brothers Company for its manufacturing facilities,...
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Automotive & Aerospace
William Durant
its own sources of parts. In order to realize this vision, he created General Motors through a merger of Buick, Cadillac, Oldsmobile, Oakland (later Pontiac) and numerous parts manufacturers. After losing...
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Automotive & Aerospace
Lester M. Alberthal, Jr.
Under Alberthal's leadership, EDS regained its prominence as the leader in information technology services. He is credited with tripling revenues and lessening the firm’s dependence on General Motors as a...
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Services
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
Photos courtesy of Mobius Motors Driving in Kenya can be a rough ride, over bumpy dirt roads and potholed urban streets, made worse by dust, heat, and torrential rain. And that’s if you’re lucky enough to own a vehicle that will stand up...
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Amy Yee
Herbert V. Kohler
Kohler built the second largest plumbing supply company in the United States. He is also responsible for widening the company’s scope of production. Today, Kohler makes electric generators for standby power systems, yachts, View Details
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Fabricated Goods
- 14 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Business Summit: China in the Global Economy
Stropki, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.G. Richard Wagoner, Chairman and CEO, General Motors CorporationMarjorie Yang, Chairman, The Esquel Group While the...
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Re: William C. Kirby
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
where his father eventually landed a job at a General Motors factory in Doraville. Stan O’Neal attended the General Motors Institute (which later...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Dinner Celebrates Professorships
Roy D Shapiro, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration (at right), shares a laugh with Philip Caldwell (MBA '42), former chairman and CEO of Ford Motor Company. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons Linda A. Hill, the Wallace...
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Robert R. Young
Young set out to take over the holding company that owned the C&O Railroad, and despite losing substantial backing from a group of General Motors executives, Young eventually gained control of the...
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Transportation
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
What do thirty second-year MBAs know about automotive technology? When it comes to communications and infotainment systems, more than you might think. That’s why Ford Motor Company executive vice president Mark Fields (MBA ’89) welcomed...
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- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
communicate and made abbreviations like RT (retweet) and ICYMI (in case you missed it) part of the lingo of Twitter users everywhere. What to make of all this? Senior Lecturer Chet Huber, who joined the School's General Management unit...
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- 18 May 2011
- News
U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?
expect net labor costs for manufacturing in China and the United States to converge by around 2015. As a result of the changing economics, you’re going to see a lot more products ‘Made in the USA’ over the next five years.” Even now some firms are looking close to home...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy
Nissan aims to introduce 23 electrified models, including 15 all-electric vehicles. General Motors announced multiple entries in pickup, SUV and luxury segments that represent about 70% of EV industry...
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Kyle Bisutti
Responsibility: overseeing one-hundred employees building the thrust reversers that ensure the uneventful deceleration of aircraft on airport runways. With two summers at General Motors in Detroit, and six...
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