General Motors
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The company that invented the modern multidivisional corporation and then spent fifty years being written about as its cautionary case.
10 books · 3 people behind it
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- Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to DisasterPaul Ingrassia, 2010
- My Years with General MotorsAlfred P. Sloan Jr., 1963
- On a Clear Day You Can See General MotorsJ. Patrick Wright, John Z. DeLorean, 1979
The people behind it 3
Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.
Academics 1
Strategists 1
Journalists 1
Books 10
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. · 1963 · Insider account: Sloan's own record of decentralized management.
J. Patrick Wright, John Z. DeLorean · 1979 · Insider account: DeLorean's dissent, ghostwritten by Wright.
Paul Ingrassia · 2010 · Pulitzer-winning reporter on the bankruptcy and bailout.
Maryann Keller · 1989 · Analyst's contemporaneous diagnosis of the Roger Smith years.
Paul Ingrassia, Joseph B. White · 1994 · Detroit's early-1990s crisis and the GM boardroom coup.
Bob Lutz · 2011 · Insider account: Lutz on product culture versus finance control.
Alex Taylor III · 2010 · Fortune correspondent's inside look at the collapse.