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Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Steve Miller has a knack for taking over companies just before they are about to smash into a wall," the Wall Street Journal observed. "In fact, it is his specialty." For thirty years---beginning with the legendary Chrysler bailout, which he negotiated as a key member of Lee Iacocca's team, to the revival of the U.S. steel industry---Miller has done the messy, unpleasant work of salvaging America's lost companies ...
83) Fast muscle
Author
Publisher
Gabbard Publications
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 372 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a spectacular success, attracting seventy exhibitors and nearly...
86) Henry Ford
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiii, 306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception. He championed his workers, offering unprecedented wages, yet crushed their attempts to organize. Virulently anti-Semitic, he never employed fewer than 3,000 Jews. An outspoken pacifist, he made millions producing war materials. He urbanized the modern world, and then tried to drag it back into a romanticized rural past he'd helped to destroy. As the...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the American inventor and industrialist who is best known for making the automobile practical, through both his revolutionary assembly lines and his desire to make a car every working man could afford.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 418 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s America enjoyed massive growth and affluence, and no companies contributed more to its success than automakers. Their leadership was revered, their methods imitated, and their brands synonymous with the nation's aspirations. By the end of the 1960s Detroit's profits had evaporated and its famed executives had become symbols of greed, arrogance, and incompetence. No company suffered this reversal more than General Motors, which found itself...
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 336 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Heartbreaking and hilarious, Seoul Man is Frank Ahrens' story of the three years he spent in Korea as the highest ranking non-Korean executive at Hyundai, shedding light on a business culture very few Western journalists have been able to experience"--
Author
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
The world's bestselling Lean expert shows service-based organizations how to go Lean, gain value, and get results-The Toyota Way . A must-read for service professionals of every level, this essential book takes the proven Lean principles of the bestselling Toyota Way series and applies them directly to the industries where quality of service is crucial for success. Jeff Liker and Karyn Ross show you how to develop Lean practices throughout your organization...
92) Henry Ford
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man responsible for mass producing the automobile in the early part of the twentieth century.
Author
Language
English
Description
Henry Ford, a major architect of modern America, has lived on in the imagination of his fellow citizens as an enduring figure of fascination, an inimitable individual, a controversial personality, and a social visionary from the moment his Model T brought the automobile to the masses and triggered the consumer revolution. Ford first made the automobile affordable, but grew skeptical of consumerism's corrosive impact on moral values; insisted on a...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the 1950's in Detroit and Connie Minor has the job of selling the Edsel to America. Before he can start, he's hit with a hardball proposition from union leader Walter Reuther and a zealous politician. Minor dives into the Detroit underworld of mobsters, wrestlers, and ex-cops, where he finds someone with deadly plans for Henry Ford's dream.
Author
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and accomplishments of Henry Ford who, among other things, is credited with inventing the assembly line, which changed not only the automotive industry but all industries.
Publisher
Dpunkt-Verl
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1. Aufl.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xiv, 317 pages) : illustrations
Language
Deutsch
Description
Automotive SPICE ist ein ISO/IEC 15504-kompatibles, speziell auf die Automobilbranche zugeschnittenes Assessmentmodell. Es hat in den letzten Jahren stark an Bedeutung gewonnen -- u.a. empfiehlt der Vorstand des Verbandes der Automobilindustrie seinen Mitgliedern die Anwendung von Automotive SPICE. Die Herausforderung bei der Einführung und Umsetzung von Automotive SPICE besteht darin, die Norm richtig zu interpretieren und auf eine konkrete Problemstellung...
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