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Alfred P. Sloan was the company chief during the Nazi era and responsible for many of the company’s policies at the time. The inside story of how General Motors helped mobilize the Third Reich As the Nazis amassed power, what did General Motors know — and when?
Nov 4, 2021 · Alfred P. Sloan was now on the GM board of directors and head of all “accessory” (parts) divisions. He was forty-three years old and had twenty years of experience running businesses behind him. He was also a large shareholder in General Motors.
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Sloan was named vice president of Operations for GM in 1920. Three years later, at a time when General Motors was still struggling to define itself, Sloan was named president. Sloan began methodically examining all facets of GM’s operations.
Apr 9, 2024 · Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (born May 23, 1875, New Haven, Conn., U.S.—died Feb. 17, 1966, New York City) was an American corporate executive and philanthropist who headed General Motors ( GM) as president and chairman for more than a quarter of a century. The son of a coffee and tea importer, he was brought up in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Oct 25, 1999 · His book criticized the auto industry for what he considered a profits-before-safety mentality and focused on the dangerous handling of General Motors’ Chevrolet Corvair.
Sep 6, 2005 · Did Alfred P. Sloan’s brainchild collude with the Nazis? No, is the short answer from Yale historian Henry Ashby Turner Jr. But as Turner explains in this fascinating and troubling book, the longer answer is nuanced and infinitely more complicated.
Jan 1, 2018 · In addition to architecting General Motors’ multidivisional organization structure, Alfred Sloan helped to make one of the twentieth century’s most pivotal strategic decisions: in the early 1920s, Sloan’s General Motors began out-competing the dominant Ford Motor Company by offering a well-coordinated suite of branded products, each aimed at dif...
