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Alfred P. Sloan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whose total assets had a market value of over $1.5 billion in 2005 Sloan retired as chairman on April 2, 1956 and died in 1966. GM under Sloan became famous for managing diverse operations with financial statistics such as return on investment; these measures were introduced to GM by Donaldson Brown, a protege of GM vice-president John J. Raskob who was in turn the protege of Pierre du Pont -- the DuPont corporation owned 43% of GM. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_P._Sloan   (557 words)

Sloan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred P. Sloan, the long-time president and chairman of General Motors Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, one of the largest philanthropic organizations in the world Sloan is the name of several places in the United States of America: en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sloan   (164 words)

Alfred P. Sloan, Sloan Museum Exhibit Alfred P. Sloan served as President of General Motors from 1923 to 1937 and as Chairman of the Board from 1937 to 1956. Alfred P. Sloan was a young graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology when he took over the troubled Hyatt Roller Bearing Company and made it a success. Sloan gave a lot of his wealth to help other people. www.ipl.org.ar /webink/sloan/alfred.html   (174 words)

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. 20th Century American Leaders Database Sloan's attention to efficiency spurred his development of a new corporate structure at GM, one that gave each divisional manager more autonomy and allowed the larger conglomerate to function more smoothly. Though he started his career at a roller bearing manufacturer, Sloan eventually sold the company to GM after realizing that the rapid growth of the automobile industry was essentially controlling his business. By the time Sloan left the presidency to become chairman of the board, GM's earnings had grown to over $460 million. www.hbs.edu /leadership/database/leaders/834   (84 words)

A Ghost's Memoir: The Making of Alfred P. Sloan's _My Years with General Motors_ Alfred P. Sloan's My Years with General Motors is one of the classics of twentieth century business history, but as John McDonald emphasizes it almost never came to press. In 1949, Sloan expressed to McDonald, whom he had met in 1948, an interest in writing an article on the effectiveness of big business using General Motors as an example; McDonald was to provide editorial assistance. Significantly, while GM was aware of the Sloan project, and several executives provided the authors with interviews and documents, no one at the automobile giant seemed particularly interested in it. www.eh.net /bookreviews/library/0524.shtml   (886 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr was born in New Haven, Connecticut, May 23, 1875, the first of five children of Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Sr., and Katherine Mead Sloan. Sloan as Chief Executive Officer, were years of enormous expansion for the Corporation and of a steady increase in its share of the automobile market. Sloan was named Vice President in Charge of Accessories and a member of the Executive Committee. www.sloan.org /sloanbio.shtml   (584 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr was born in New Haven, Connecticut, May 23, 1875, the first of five children of Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Sr., and Katherine Mead Sloan. Sloan as Chief Executive Officer, were years of enormous expansion for the Corporation and of a steady increase in its share of the automobile market. Sloan had developed by then his system of disciplined, professional management that provided for decentralized operations with coordinated centralized policy control. www.sloan.org /sloanbio.shtml   (584 words)

GM - Corporate Info - History - 1920 Alfred P. Sloan is elected President and Chairman of the Executive Committee May 10, 1923, following a meeting of the Board of Directors. Alfred Sloan articulates GM’s product strategy of "A car for every purse and purpose" in his Message to Shareholders in the 1924 Annual Report. This is the most far reaching effort yet made by a large corporation to align interests of management and stockholders through having leaders become large stockholders themselves. www.gm.com /company/corp_info/history/gmhis1920.html   (1198 words)

Alfred P. Sloan, Late Chairman of General Motors Corporation Alfred P. Sloan was without question one of the greatest industrialists in history. If you want to get some money from Sloan (he had a billion, I don't have any), here is where to go: The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Alfred P. Sloan, Late Chairman of General Motors Corporation www.ishipress.com /al-sloan.htm   (655 words)

Sloan Foundation Grant The designation is by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which is establishing its 23rd Center for Industry Studies at USC with $400,000 in seed money. In 1990, the Sloan Foundation established its industry centers program to create academic communities that would cultivate a thorough understanding of a particular industry through research and observation and ultimately make practical contributions to the industries studied. Plans call for the Sloan Center, when fully operational, to work in tandem with USC's proposed Center for Tourism and Technology Research, which will be housed in Moody's college. mooreschool.sc.edu /moore/pr/releases/Sloan_gift.html   (604 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation - Pre-Tenure Leave Fellowship Program Sloan Pre-Tenure Leave Fellowships will provide funding to regular, untenured, tenure-track faculty at selected institutions faced with urgent family responsibilities so that they could take a leave with salary or, after a leave, resume research. Applications from faculty whose department Chairs have credibly certified are making good progress toward meeting the department's standards for tenure would be judged solely on the extent to which receiving a Sloan Pre-Tenure Leave Fellowship is likely to contribute to the retention and career success of the applicant. Applicants would also be required to make a specific request for financial support and provide a budget for use of the Sloan Pre-Tenure Leave Fellowship and of the institutional matching funds. www2.mc.duke.edu /admin/aa/notices/sloan02.htm   (1187 words)

Columbia News ::: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Award $286,000 toward Production of First Feature Films by SOA Students, Recent Alumni The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has awarded Columbia's School of the Arts (SOA) an unprecedented two-year, $286,000 grant to provide funding toward the production of two feature-length science films by film division students or recent alumni. "The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Film Award is the largest single grant available to Columbia School of the Arts students and the first to support feature films," says Bruce W. Ferguson, SOA dean. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been supporting SOA since 1998 with annual screenwriting and production awards to graduate students. www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/02/sloan_foundation_award.html   (384 words)

Alfred Sloan's Concept of the Corporation Alfred Sloan’s conception of the modern American corporation is one of these inventions. Sloan soon became chairman of GM and then took over as president in 1923. Sloan’s ideas included how to break down GM into smaller divisions – something we see in almost all companies today. www.inventhelp.com /Alfred-Sloans-Concept-of-the-Corporation.asp   (583 words)

Wriggers Receives Prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship The Sloan fellowships are awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic non-profit institution established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. Currently, a total of 112 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships are awarded annually in seven fields: chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. The fellowship supports computationally-sophisticated young scientists who wish to pursue a multi-disciplinary career and to apply their computational expertise to the complex problems facing molecular biology. www.uthouston.edu /Media/newsreleases/nr2003/wriggers.html   (400 words)

Sloan Rules, an interview with David Farber Sloan, however, absolutely hated to see corporate executives get caught doing anything that placed their corporations or the free market in a bad light (I emphasize that it is the getting caught that would offend him). Sloan was an outspoken advocate of international free trade (for which he was blasted by Republicans in the early 1930s!) and an unregulated marketplace. Sloan was probably the first car man to accurately predict that someday most American families would have at least two cars in every garage. www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/238040in.html   (2363 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation The objectives of the Sloan Foundation Industry Centers' program are to create an academic community that understands a particular industry and to encourage a direct approach to data collection and observation through contact with the companies and people from that industry. The Sloan Foundation has determined that observation-based work by well-informed academics will, in the long run, lead to practical contributions to the industries, which are studied. The Sloan Foundation grant for over $2 million, which will be complimented by direct industry-based funding, will create an academic community that studies business issues and needs central to the paper industry. www.ipst.gatech.edu /news/archive/2000/sloan.html   (692 words)

Press Release The grant provides funding for the creation of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, to be presented to an outstanding dramatic feature film that insightfully probes science or technology and is screening at the Sundance Film Festival. Los Angeles, CA — Sundance Institute, with an important grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is committed to the development and exhibition of new independent film projects that explore science and technology themes or that depict scientists in engaging and innovative ways. The New York based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, founded in 1934, makes grants in science, technology, and economic performance. institute.sundance.org /jsps/pag_ex_news.jsp?resource=pag_ex_news_press_release&sk=IlGLcnMEzWv9cWNG&mbr=pr_prl_Feature_Film_Program_13   (1019 words)

Prof. Hicks Named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow The Sloan Research Fellowship, an extremely competitive award, is given to top scientists at research universities early in their careers, in the fields of chemistry, economics, mathematics, neuroscience and physics. The Sloan Research Fellowship carries a grant of $30,000 to be used in an unrestricted manner to support the Fellow's research. Hicks's research focuses on the study of the structure and dynamics of chemical environments such as liquids and surfaces, primarily by using ultrafast pulsed laser methods that achieve sensitivity and time resolution of unprecedented magnitudes. www.georgetown.edu /departments/chemistry/S95/hicksslo.htm   (271 words)

Sloan Industry Studies At the program's core are the Sloan Industry Centers, each of which consists of a group of faculty and students from a variety of disciplines, such as business, engineering, economics, etc., who study many aspects of a single industry. Since 1990, the Sloan Foundation’s Industry Studies program has been founded on the belief that industries are sufficiently different from one another that they individually deserve rigorous and deep academic study. The industry studies community is composed of scholars who deeply understand industries by taking a direct approach to the companies and people of each industry for data and observations. www.industry.sloan.org   (277 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation :: Sloan Foundation Awards Industry Studies Fellowships Sloan's Industry Studies program seeks to develop a deep understanding of industries by supporting academic research grounded in direct observation. Similar to the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships, the Industry Studies Fellowships provide support and recognition to junior faculty from a wide variety of academic disciplines -- economics, management, engineering, political science, and related or interdisciplinary areas. Once chosen, Industry Studies Fellows are free to pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them in close consultation with people in their chosen industries, and they are permitted to employ fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims. sev.prnewswire.com /education/20060105/DCTH03005012006-1.html   (551 words)

Alfred P. Sloan (1875-1966) - Forbes.com As President of General Motors (nyse: GBM - news - people), Alfred P. Sloan attacked Ford (nyse: F - news - people) Motors' dominance by offering customers what Ford refused to: a wider selection of cars, available in different colors, with updated models annually. Forbes.com readers and editors rank Alfred P. Sloan as the 12th most influential businessman of all time. Sloan led by persuasion, listening to his executives, workers, dealers and customers to improve production and give customers what they wanted. www.forbes.com /business/2005/07/13/sloan-general-motors-ford-cx_0714bizmansloan.html   (452 words)

SloanPhDs.org - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Graduate Scholarship Programs Since November 2001, NACME has been proud to partner with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in managing two innovative graduate scholarship programs focusing on increasing the number of underrepresented American minorities in mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering graduate programs. The American Indian Graduate Program (AIGP), initiated in 2003 through a partnership between the University of Arizona and the Sloan Foundation, was expanded in Fall 2005 to include the participation of select faculties and departments at The University of Montana, Missoula and Montana Tech of The University of Montana, Butte. The Minority Ph.D. Program, established by the Sloan Foundation in 1995, offers eligible doctoral candidates the opportunity to pursue their Ph.D. degrees with financial, mentoring, and guidance support through recognized participating faculty and departments approved by the Sloan Foundation. www.nacme.org /sloan   (180 words)

Five researchers from University chosen as Alfred P. Sloan fellows Five University professors recently were selected to receive 2000 Alfred P. Sloan research fellowships for their exceptional promise to contribute to the advancement of knowledge. Once chosen, Sloan fellows may pursue whatever lines of inquiry are of most interest to them, and they are permitted to employ fellowship funds in a wide variety of ways to further their research aims. Goolsbee will use his Sloan fellowship award to study the economics of Internet commerce and the role of government policy in the information age. chronicle.uchicago.edu /000427/sloan.shtml   (614 words)

MIT Sloan School of Management MIT Sloan and its corporate partners are driven by the conviction that business must stay ahead of global progress. Pioneering leaders at the MIT Sloan Sloan School of Management are transforming global business with innovative solutions. MIT Sloan Professor Andrew Lo analyzes the physiological and emotional characteristics that influence financial decision-making and how these factors affect the outcome of trading. mitsloan.mit.edu   (208 words)

The Leadership Genius of Alfred P. Sloan : McGraw-Hill Professional Books Legendary General Motors CEO and visionary business leader Alfred P. Sloan created the breakthrough organizational and marketing approaches that have become the models for all large companies to the present day. The Leadership Genius of Alfred P. Sloan helps you to apply Sloan’s timeless principles to your own organization, distilling lessons from top companies across a wide range of industries (IBM, Federated,Trader Joe’s) that are effectively implementing the concepts. Alfred P. Sloan’s proven principles for success, completely updated for today’s business professional books.mcgraw-hill.com /getbook.php?isbn=0071457968   (246 words)

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation :: Online Education is Entering the Mainstream The study was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (http://www.sloan.org/) and conducted by the Sloan Center for OnLine Education at Olin (http://www.olin.edu/) and Babson Colleges (see http://www.babson.edu/) and The Sloan Consortium (see http://www.sloan-c.org/). ORLANDO, Fla., Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- The 2004 Sloan Survey of Online Learning, Entering the Mainstream: The Quality and Extent of Online Education in the U. http://www.sloan-c.org/resources/survey.asp), was released today at the 10th Annual Sloan-C International Conference. The report shows online enrollments continue to grow at rates faster than for the broader student population and institutes of higher education expect the rate of growth to continue increasing. sev.prnewswire.com /education/20041112/DCF00112112004-1.html   (384 words)

The Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children & Work The Alfred P. Sloan Working Families Center is funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and is located at NORC and the University of Chicago. Moderated postdoctoral student presentations at the Alfred P. Sloan Center on Parents, Children, and Work Conference. Organized by the Business and Professional Women's Foundation in association with the Center for Families at Purdue University and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. www.sloanworkingfamilies.org /presentations.html   (6663 words)

Sloan-C - Home The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve the quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines. Funded by the Sloan Foundation and in partnership with the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB), Sloan-C offered students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita an opportunity to continue their education at no tuition cost. Join more than 20,000 Online Educators on the Sloan-C list and get access to the Sloan-C View, Key Research and Information About Online Learning, and Upcoming Events for Online Educators. www.sloan-c.org   (371 words)

NOVA Funders Alfred P. Sloan Foundation PBS Since 1984, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been a generous supporter of NOVA, funding the many programs listed below for the series and the WGBH Science Unit. The Sloan Foundation's "Public Understanding of Science and Technology" program supports the use of media to enhance people's lives by providing a better understanding of the increasingly scientific and technological environment in which we live. A gripping saga of achievement and struggle against the odds, "Percy Julian" is a two-hour television biography of one of the most remarkable 20th-century African-American scientists, a chemist who was the first black ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences. www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/redir/http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/funders/sloan.html   (428 words)

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