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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Rust Belt Turns ‘Sun Belt’ with Solar
facility in Indiana, where photovoltaic solar modules will be manufactured. Said Tiller, “Henry Ford transformed the auto industry with his assembly line. As we build to scale, our simpler process will give...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
Chirchirillo, “It’s a game-changer. Now we can go from print-to-part faster than anyone in the world.” The coin of the realm: The intricate patterns of metal stampings form the innards of component parts for a variety of manufactured products in a range of View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
today goes to telecom, high tech, or software,” said Mahesh, founder and CEO of Sundaram Medical Devices in Chennai. Mahesh trained at Stanford as an engineer and worked for McKinsey and Toyota before attending HBS. He plans to apply engineering and cost control...
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- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
portfolio of companies. Some go great and some don't. But the individual entrepreneur has all his or her eggs in one basket. They are the real actors; we're just the stagehands. Where the new economy is going We've clearly had our excesses, but when the View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Terence P. Stewart
Auto Workers in a 1980 case that led to the voluntary restraint agreement with Japan; the bearings industry since the 1970s; and the steel sector in the 1970s and 1980s - as examples where legal intercession...
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Garry Emmons
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 25 May 2011
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Race to the Finish?
economies getting behind the wheel in the coming years, automakers have an added responsibility: For the industry to maintain its social license to operate, it must ensure its growth does not come at the expense of the world’s climate...
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Garry Emmons
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
oil by 2050. Written by energy analyst and physicist Amory Lovins, the book noted the lack of efficiency of modern auto manufacturing. Rogers saw an opportunity. And after seeing firsthand the political and human consequences of the...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
representing a large part of what remains of the American industrial economy. Should these companies file for Chapter 11 and fail to get financing, there could be a loss of several million jobs. But the threat is far worse than those...
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- 01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
marketing in the early stages of a drug's development. In a lunchtime address, Jacques Nasser, president and CEO of Ford Motor Company, touched on a number of experiences from his 33 years at the auto giant, including what he referred to...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
increased workplace opportunities for blacks and women, and heightened job security and compensation for workers generally, things began to unravel in the 1970s. As the manufacturing sector declined and the country transitioned to a “service economy,” Americans saw...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Lessons from the Auto Industry by Pat Schuch (MBA 1986) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Schuch relates her adventures as a young wife and mother of two who embarked on a 30-year career in the...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
enters an auto showroom and meets an aggressive salesperson and sees a display of trophies and hints of a special offer. “These objects may trigger vague images of predator and prey, which in turn may prime the innate ‘fight or flight’...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark
Abernathy, we used our experiences in the auto industry in Japan to better understand what was going on in productivity, quality, and innovation. I became an inveterate comparatist. And I've never met a...
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- 01 Oct 1997
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Doing Something Real
have been campaigns in favor of automobile insurance reform and against smoking. As told in the book, both efforts were conducted with typical frenetic panache. Tobias, whose principal residence is Miami, spent more than $250,000 of his own money to push for reform of...
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Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
philanthropy and art collecting. But his legacy continues, saving millions of computer users from their worst nightmare. « Back Driven to Serve W. James Hindman (9th OPM) created Jiffy Lube - the nation's first quickie auto fluids change...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
make money on it," says Vietor. "The problem is that getting back and refurbishing the parts is expensive. So they're hoping for the best." Michael E. Porter, C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, believes that it is indeed possible for companies...
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- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
self, but also the innovation of the automobile industry globalized and the best place to get the sexiest sports car is probably in Italy. And the capital of raw engineering might be in Germany. And the most reliable cars come from Japan....
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
Ford, for the auto itself and his influence on the work force," while another noted Ford's "perfection of the use of interchangeable parts and the assembly line, concepts employed by essentially all of business today." Alfred P. Sloan of...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors...
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Julia Hanna