Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...raised at the fundraiser will go toward the "transformation of the college's North Hall into a dynamic, multi-function facility," according to printed remarks from MassArt President Kay Sloan...
...list, recognizing only 20 people, is by definition subjective, especially since we sought to recognize leadership in several different industries. If, as I believe, the automobile is the product of the century, we could easily have filled the list with the names of famous automakers, including Alfred P. Sloan, Charles Kettering and William Durant (all from General Motors), Walter Chrysler, Ferdinand Porsche (Porsche and Volkswagen), Ransom Olds, Clement Studebaker and the Dodge brothers. Henry J. Kaiser not only built cars but also played a key role in shipbuilding, construction, housing and hospitals. In the end, however, we settled on Henry...
...bias toward innovators and company founders and against managers kept several famous names off the list--not only Sloan, whose organizational and management skills helped consolidate several disparate automakers into General Motors, but also a number of chief executives best known for their ability to manage large enterprises and increase shareholder value. It should be remembered that Ford Motor Co. was foundering when Henry Ford died, and it was left to his grandson Henry Ford II to revive the company after World War II with the help of a group of button-down managers, the "Whiz Kids," including Robert McNamara...
This semester, Martin is taking four courses,including one at the Sloan Business School at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Balancingwork and classes means taking courses that meet at8 a.m. or in the evening...
...course it's O.K. Kiss and its siblings, including Victor Mignatti's Broadway Damage and Brian Sloan's Big Chill-ish I Think I Do, are as geezer friendly as a sappy sitcom. Like the ruck of hetero indie films, many in the Gay Wave have ambitions no higher than a Friends rerun. They are comedies of courtship manners...