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...Honda can sometimes outthink itself, creating cars that are more appealing in the design lab than on the dealer's lot, like the clunky Insight. "Toyota may have engineers that aren't as smart as Honda's, but they are certainly better at listening to consumers," says Noble. John Mendel, senior vice president for American Honda, notes that there are "robust conversations" between the design and the sales sides but says the emphasis on conservation means that Honda has long anticipated consumer desires. "We were doing fuel efficiency when gas prices were a $1 a gallon," he says. "This...
...History of Science fixture for 45 years—has returned to teach a junior seminar (History of Science 90w, “The Atom Bomb in History and Culture”) and a freshman seminar (43q, “Historian and the Genes–From Mendel to Human Clones”). Students can enjoy his pseudo-British accent (à la Reverend Gomes) and bathe in his deep knowledge of all things Larry Summers.An efficient Italian with shocking dark curly hair, Mario Biagoli is on leave in the fall. So teaching Renaissance science is left to a visiting...
...Ford Motor needs the kind of head-knocking leadership that, undermined by endless management shuffles and power struggles, Bill Ford didn't provide. Ford's product-development staff has been reorganized half a dozen times since the early '90s. John Mendel, a former sales executive, recalls a management meeting in the late '90s at which an analyst warned that Ford needed to invest in next-generation car designs and engineering. "The overwhelming response was that Ford is making more money than ever," he recalls, "and 'How could we be in trouble...
Away from the family atelier, Mendel experimented with fur in ways that defied the teachings of his father. ?My father was like a diamond cutter,? he says. ?He excelled at what he did, but it didn't have any connection to the outside world.? Gilles created coats in which he sheared off all the hair so that they felt and looked like cashmere; he cut swaths of mink into pieces and sewed them back together in loose, fragile strips that offered neither bulk nor insulation. ?I was the only furrier who sold fur that didn...
...opened the Madison Avenue store, taking over chief design duties for the label from his father, who still runs the Paris shop. The younger Mendel, however, wouldn't mind if the company, still privately held, lost the family management by being bought by a fashion conglomerate. ?I'd like to do accessories, bags, shoes,? he says. ?I'd also have a more global reach. For that, I need additional backing.? His timing seems perfect...