How the iPhone Got Tail Fins -- Part 2
In a stroke of genius, GM invented the annual model change. Sloan borrowed this idea from fashion where styles changed every year and applied it to automobiles starting in the 1920s.
In a stroke of genius, GM invented the annual model change. Sloan borrowed this idea from fashion where styles changed every year and applied it to automobiles starting in the 1920s.
Steve Blank | Posted 12.18.2011
First it was a craft business, then driven by relentless technology innovation and then a price war as economies of scale drove production. No, it's not Apple and the iPhone. It was General Motors and the auto industry.
The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 07.03.2011
A company's reputation is formed not only by the products it sells, but by the decisions it makes in times of crises. For some, that's a good thing. F...
AP | DEE-ANN DURBIN | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — A decade ago, the PT Cruiser roared onto the road with trendsetting looks and Al Capone swagger. In a sea of bland Honda Civics and To...
AP | TOM KRISHER and KEN THOMAS | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — Toyota Motor Corp. plans to start sending parts to dealers in the coming days to fix a sticky gas pedal problem that has tarnished its...
Norman Lear | Posted 05.25.2011
What's going on with our car companies breaks the heart of this member of the Greatest Generation. The American motor car played such a significant part in our "American Dream."
New York Times | MICHELINE MAYNARD and MICHAEL J. de la MERCED | Posted 05.25.2011
It is not just lawyers who will be busy handling a G.M. bankruptcy filing, which would be perhaps the biggest and most-watched in legal history. Beca...
Ian Welsh | Posted 05.25.2011
The debt holders will go to the judge and argue that they deserve to own much more Chrysler or that it should be broken up and that their claims take precedence. I don't know if they'll succeed.
Reuters | Chelsea Emery and Soyoung Kim | Posted 05.25.2011
General Motors Corp is in "intense" and "earnest" preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing, a source familiar with the company's plans told Reute...
AP | KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON | Posted 05.25.2011
DETROIT — Shares of Ford Motor Co. soared 16 percent Monday after the company said it completed tender offers that will reduce its debt by 38 pe...
Bloomberg | Jeff Green | Posted 05.25.2011
General Motors Corp. is speeding up preparations for a possible bankruptcy filing even as directors seek deeper savings this week to avoid that outcom...
New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011
It might be hard to find a better example of biting the hand that feeds you. American automakers, the subject of much attention and beneficiaries of a...
Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011
If we're going to minutely examine autoworkers' wages, and dictate the travel plans of one industry we are bailing out, then it seems eminently reasonable to do the same for the banking industry.
Rick Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
Gas prices are down -- it's party time! All it takes is a hearty appetite, and a good-old-American willingness to forget that the rest of the storm is still headed our way.
Steve Blank | Posted 12.21.2011