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...world's largest supplier of computer software, have assumed the role long played by Big Blue as the industry's pacesetters. What is taking place is a generational shift unprecedented in the information age -- one that recalls a transition in the U.S. auto industry 70 years ago, when Alfred Sloan's upstart General Motors surpassed Ford Motor as the nation's No. 1 carmaker. The transition also reflects the decline of computer manufacturers such as IBM, Wang and Unisys, and the rise of companies like Microsoft, Intel and AT&T that create the chips and software to make the computers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ibm's Unruly Kids | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...whose charismatic leader Alfred Sloan pioneered modern corporate management, get into this fix? In large part, the company has been a victim of its past success and an insular culture that has refused to change. For 70 years, GM has operated along lines that Sloan first laid down in a 1919 memo to top managers of what was then a struggling company. Sloan separated the firm into operating groups and divisions, which were presided over by executive committees that set corporate policy. This blend of top-down control and decentralized execution helped GM build cars at lower cost than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? Everything at Once. | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

...biggest challenge will be to shift from the top-down style of management that has characterized the company since Alfred Sloan to a more collegial style in which everyone from the shop floor to the executive suite participates in decision making. That is no longer a revolutionary idea among GM's rivals or industry at large. Ford developed its Taurus using nearly autonomous teams of workers, and Chrysler last year opened a mammoth $1 billion technical center that will bring together 6,000 technicians, designers and engineers to work on joint car projects. Perhaps not surprisingly, Ford and Chrysler have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Went Wrong? Everything at Once. | 11/9/1992 | See Source »

Twenty teams from Boston University, Brandeis, Brigham Young, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, The University of Pennsylvania and Williams participated in the event, held Saturday at MIT's Sloan Business School...

Author: By Eon KYU Shin, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Harvard Team Takes College Bowl; Qualifies for National Tournament | 11/4/1992 | See Source »

Cancer-pain management has also changed dramatically. Physicians today give megadoses of morphine without great risk of depressing a patient's breathing. Sloan-Kettering's Foley estimates that the morphine doses she prescribes for chronic cancer patients, usually as time-released tablets, are at least ten times the amount she gave a decade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Less Pain, More Gain | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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