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    Olive Ann M. Beech

    In 1932, Beech assisted her husband in forming the Beech Aircraft Corporation, and within a short time, the company prospered and dominated the market for privately-owned small, commercial planes. Beech... View Details
    Keywords: 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... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

        Charles S. Mott

        Under Mott’s management, the family owned company grew into a key supplier of automobile parts for General Motors. Realizing the great future of the automobile industry, Mott changed the firm’s activity from bicycle wheel production and... View Details
        Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

          Robert J. Eaton

          Following Lee Iacocca as head of Chrysler, Eaton led the company to a banner year in 1994 with earnings of $3.7 billion and sales of $52.2 billion, both far above previous records. In 1996, Eaton’s Chrysler led auto makers in profits... View Details
          Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

            John L. Collyer

            off from its crude rubber sources. Summoned by the nation, Collyer developed and executed a program to provide the armed forces and the country with critical man-made rubber products. View Details
            Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

              Roy D. Chapin

              Chapin reorganized Hudson’s finances, and as a result, the original stockholders, who paid in $100,000 in 1910, received $16 million in new stock and $7 million in cash. View Details
              Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

                Robert A. Stranahan, Jr.

                Stranahan maintained Champion’s position as the world’s largest manufacturer of spark plugs. He cultivated the lucrative after-market business and continued Champion’s international expansion. View Details
                Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

                  Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

                  GM, one that gave each divisional manager more autonomy and allowed the larger conglomerate to function more smoothly. By the time Sloan left the presidency to become chairman of the board, GM’s earnings had grown to over $460 million. View Details
                  Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace

                    Henry Ford II

                    Motor overtook Chrysler and claimed second place in industry sales. Ford Motor also became an industry innovator, introducing new models such as the Falcon, which sold more than 417,000 units in 1959, an all-time first year record. View Details
                    Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
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                    This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

                    • 01 Mar 2010
                    • News

                    Lords of Strategy

                    of all time” demonstrated an early penchant for competition. A peripatetic Army brat, Porter was an all-state football and baseball player in New Jersey before majoring in aerospace engineering at Princeton... View Details
                    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
                    • 04 Apr 2018
                    • Op-Ed

                    Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

                    nuclear designs are subject to rigorous casualty testing and national licensing, there is no reason to think of nuclear power any differently than we think of other technologies and their use in civil... View Details
                    Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology
                    • 01 Jan 2008
                    • News

                    Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

                    Jeff Immelt’s night table—Railway Age, Aviation Week, Broadcasting & Cable—represents just a few of the industries encompassed by General Electric, the company founded by Thomas Edison where Immelt is entering his ninth year as chairman... View Details
                    • 13 Jul 2016
                    • News

                    From Money to Ministry

                    He handled lending for the airline and aerospace industry during deregulation and many reorganizations. “I learned about relationship banking, as opposed to now, where it’s all... View Details
                    Keywords: Margie Kelley
                    • 01 Oct 1996
                    • News

                    Sherman Baldwin: Leadership under Fire

                    conditions and often with extraordinary and unheralded courage -- to fulfill the mission they have been given by the President and the American people as the nation's first... View Details
                    Keywords: James E. Aisner
                    • 28 Mar 2018
                    • News

                    Fueling the Future

                    and then added basic materials and aerospace and defense.” After seven years leading teams at Vista, Kovatch joined Covanta, a renewable energy... View Details
                    Keywords: Jill Radsken
                    • 01 Jun 2022
                    • News

                    Ink: Start Small, Rise Above

                    degree in aerospace engineering and several years at a real estate development and investment firm. But they collaborated on multiple ventures over the last 17 years. The most... View Details
                    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
                    • 17 Jan 2025
                    • News

                    Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

                    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
                    • 30 Oct 2005
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

                    vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value chain (in aerospace or... View Details
                    Keywords: by Robert Simons
                    • 22 Aug 2011
                    • Research & Ideas

                    Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

                    to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. View Details
                    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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