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Alfred P. Sloan
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a longtime president, chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of General Motors (GM). First as a senior executive and later as the head of the company, Sloan presided over the growth of General Motors into one of the largest corporations in the world. During this period, GM spearheaded the adoption…
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business · American business executive (1875–1966) · entrepreneur · also Alfred P. Sloan, Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr., Alfred P. Sloan Jr., Sloan
Born 23 May 1875 · Died 17 February 1966 · Q344045
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2024· 2 entries
Yahoo: ‘Love Me’ Wins Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize for Science-Themed Movies
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2023· 1 entry
BroadwayWorld: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation And Sundance Institute Award Recipients For Science In Film Initiative
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2013· 1 entry
EurekAlert!: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards $600,000 grant to Commons Lab to continue mass collaboration work
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2005· 1 entry
Sloan's work at GM came under criticism for creating a complicated accounting system that prevents the implementation of lean manufacturing methods
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1990· 1 entry
With a new introduction by Peter Drucker (ISBN 978-0385042352)
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1976· 1 entry
Awarding the degree of Master of Science in Management
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1966· 1 entry
Died 1966-02-17.
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1959· 1 entry
“Alfred P. Sloan, quoted in: Forbes, Forbes Incorporated, (1959), p. 54”
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1955· 1 entry
At Cornell University, a Sloan Fellows Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1957, and at London Business School in 1965
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1954· 1 entry
Won Hoover Medal (1954).
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1952· 1 entry
With the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed the Alfred P
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1951· 1 entry
Sloan received the Hundred Year Association of New York's Gold Medal Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the City of New York"
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1939· 2 entries
“s continued industrial production for the Nazi government was merely sound business practice. In a letter to a concerned shareholder, Sloan said that the manner in which the Nazi government ran Germany”
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That GM's continued industrial production for the Nazi government was merely sound business practice
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1936· 2 entries
Sloan found that espionage had little value in the face of such open tactics, and instead the successful strike legitimized the United Auto Workers as the exclusive bargaining representative for GM workers
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Sloan issued a statement pledging not to further support the Sentinels
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1934· 2 entries
Sloan organized the Alfred P
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Established the philanthropic, nonprofit Alfred P
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1931· 1 entry
At MIT under the sponsorship of a Sloan Foundation grant
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1919· 1 entry
And his corporate deputies created the General Motors Acceptance Corporation, a financing arm that practically invented the auto loan credit system, that allowed car buyers to bypass having to save for years to buy Fo
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1916· 1 entry
Hyatt merged with other companies into United Motors Company, which soon became part of General Motors
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1899· 1 entry
When his father and another investor bought out the company from the previous owner
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1898· 1 entry
Sloan married Irene Jackson of Roxbury, Massachusetts
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1875· 1 entry
Born 1875-05-23.
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