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	Sloan-C - About Sloan-C
		The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve 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.
		Created with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction.
		The Effective Practice Awards were nominated by the Sloan Consortium Effective Practice Editors and selected by a panel of expert practitioners in the field of online learning.
	www.sloan-c.org /aboutus (428 words)

	Alfred P. Sloan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sloan was averse to violence of the sort associated with Henry Ford.
		A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the "ideal manager", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, one of the world's premier business schools.
		Sloan retired as chairman on April 2, 1956 and died in 1966.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Sloan (685 words)

	University of Arizona - Alfred P. Sloan Foundation \| Fellowships for Underrepresented Minorities
		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 then named Honorary Chairman of the Board, a title he retained until his death on February 17, 1966.
	grad.arizona.edu /multi/sloan/sloan_life.php (593 words)

	Sloan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sloan is the name of several places in the United States of America:
		Alfred P. Sloan, the long-time president and chairman of General Motors
		John Sloan, Treasurer of the United States from 1850 to 1852.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sloan (163 words)

	Alfred P. Sloan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Under Alfred P. Sloan's leadership, public transport systems of trams in the US were successively replaced by buses.
		Frequencies of bus services were decreased on less profitable routes, helping to encourage people to buy their own automobiles and travel independently (but with a higher fuel/km/person cost than for trolleys or even buses).
		Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whose total assets had a market value of over $1.3 billion in 2002 (http://www.sloan.org)
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Alfred_P._Sloan,_Jr. (306 words)

	Amazon.ca: My Years With General Motors: Books: Alfred P. Sloan,Peter Ferdinand Drucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sloan is seen as the first person to have worked out systematic organization in a big company, planning and strategy, measurements, the principle of decentralization - in short, basic concepts of a discipline of management.
		Sloan seems to be able to keep his ego in check and deliver the facts in a straightforward manner.
		Alfred P. Sloan's account of his time with General Motors is a "just the facts, ma'am" telling of how the world's largest manufacturing concern teetered, tottered, and eventually overcame it's problems to become the symbol of American Industrialism that it is today.
	www.amazon.ca /Years-General-Motors-Alfred-Sloan/dp/0756783666 (871 words)

	Sloan
		The Sloan Industry Centers are a powerful resource for industry, as well as those whose work is concerned with overarching issues that affect industries.
		Each Sloan Industry Center dedicated to a single industry is able to examine in-depth the features of that industry and work closely with its leaders.
		More Sloan Industry Centers and partnerships with additional industries are on the horizon as the collaborative undertakings of Center researchers and their industry partners are recognized for reputation and results.
	www.industry.sloan.org /centershome.htm (626 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.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0524.shtml (886 words)

	BookRags: Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. Biography
		Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., was born on May 23, 1875, in New Haven, Conn., the son of a prosperous businessman.
		Sloan quickly resuscitated the firm by moving into the manufacture of steel roller bearings for the mushrooming automobile industry.
		Sloan made a great philanthropic contribution in 1937, when he endowed the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with $10 million; to 1966, his gifts totaled over $305 million.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/alfred-pritchard-sloan-jr (457 words)

	Alfred P. Sloan, Sloan Museum Exhibit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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.
		Alfred P. Sloan served as President of General Motors from 1923 to 1937 and as Chairman of the Board from 1937 to 1956.
		Sloan gave a lot of his wealth to help other people.
	www.ipl.org.ar /webink/sloan/alfred.html (174 words)

	Alfred Sloan: My Years with General Motors - Bøger
		Sloan recognized that research was just as important as manufacturing and put both research and operations on the same organizational plane.
		Sloan is at his best describing the period 1921-1929 when the industry fell into place.
		Sloan is glib when it comes to showing off the attitudes of management of that time.
	www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/product_details.php/0385042353 (1358 words)

	History of MIT Sloan — MIT Sloan Newsroom
		In 1938 the program received full funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and was formally named the MIT Sloan Fellowship Program for Executive Development at MIT.
		In 1963 a grant from the MIT Sloan Foundation permitted the School to offer doctoral fellowships to attract outstanding young managers to careers in business and research and thereby create a pool of educators both for future management professionals and for serious research in the field.
		In 1993 MIT Sloan initiated a five-year plan with six specific initiatives that built upon the School’s existing international focus and inherent strengths, particularly through its relationship to the industrial, scientific, and technological expertise of the Institute as a whole.
	mitsloan.mit.edu /newsroom/b-history.php (1146 words)

	MCN: Sundance Alfred P. Sloan Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		ALFRED P. Park City, UTThe 2006 Sundance Film Festival is pleased to announce that THE HOUSE OF SAND, directed by Andrucha Waddington and written by Elena Soarez, is the recipient of this years Alfred P. Sloan Prize.
		The Prize, which carries a $20,000 cash award to the writer/director provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, is presented to the outstanding feature film focusing on science or technology as a theme, or depicting a scientist, engineer or mathematician as a major character.
		The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is a major component of the Sundance Science-in-Film Initiative, which is made possible by a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
	www.moviecitynews.com /festivals/sundance_2006/pr-060128-sloan.html (770 words)

	Columbia News ::: Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Award $286,000 toward Production of First Feature Films by SOA ...
		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.
		This new grant builds on the existing program with the Sloan Foundation and takes the focus on science to the next level, from screenplays and short films to produced feature-length films.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/03/02/sloan_foundation_award.html (384 words)

	Alfred P. Sloan, Inventor of the Modern Corporation
		Alfred Sloan's conception of the modern American corporation is one of these inventions.
		Alfred Sloan created structure so people could be more creative with their time and have it be well spent.
		Sloan soon became chairman of GM and then took over as president in 1923.
	www.inventhelp.com /Alfred-Sloans-Concept-of-the-Corporation.asp (615 words)

	Amazon.com: Sloan Rules: Alfred P. Sloan and the Triumph of General Motors: Books: David Farber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan was the ultimate organization man: he rose to the top of the auto industry after pioneers like Henry Ford built it, and then he transformed it with innovative management practices that today are studied and copied by business executives everywhere.
		Mr Sloan major contribution was taking General Motors,in the early 1920s, an amalgam of deals put together by Durant, which were in a state of disarray and puting together a rational and effective organization.
		Sloan was meticulously careful not to leave material which would provide insight into his personal life, his thoughts, or his motivations.
	www.amazon.com /Sloan-Rules-Alfred-Triumph-General/dp/0226238040 (1494 words)

	Sloan Rules, an interview with David Farber
		Sloan was probably the first car man to accurately predict that someday most American families would have at least two cars in every garage.
		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, 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).
	www.press.uchicago.edu /Misc/Chicago/238040in.html (2363 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.
		Application for a Fellowship would normally precede the faculty member's taking a leave and applicants are requested to apply with as much leadtime as possible in their particular circumstances.
	www2.mc.duke.edu /admin/aa/notices/sloan02.htm (1187 words)

	CSHL - Stillman Receives Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. Prize
		The Sloan Prize recognizes the most outstanding recent contribution in basic science related to cancer research.
		As part of the commitment to cancer research, the automaker established the GMCRF in 1978 to recognize the outstanding accomplishments of basic scientists and clinical scientists in cancer research around the world.
		The Sloan Prize, among the most prestigious in the field of medicine, is one of three awards GM announces annually.
	www.cshl.edu /public/releases/sloan.html (1110 words)

	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation :: Sloan Foundation Awards $5.2 Million in Research Fellowships
		NEW YORK, Feb. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today that 116 outstanding young scientists and economists have been selected to receive the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship, the oldest fellows program in the United States.
		The new Sloan Fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience, and are faculty members at 54 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
		In the 50 years that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been awarding research fellowships, 32 Sloan Fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes and hundreds have received other prestigious awards and honors.
	sev.prnewswire.com /education/20050228/DCM05728022005-1.html (345 words)

	Alfred Pritchard Sloan
		Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr., 1875—1966, American businessman and philanthropist, b...
		The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic nonprofit institution established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr.,
		The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution, was established in 1934 by Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., then president and...
	www.eligiblembas.com /mba_resources/alfred-pritchard-sloan.html (528 words)

	Alfred P. Sloan Foundation :: Sloan Foundation Awards $5.2 Million in Research Fellowships
		NEW YORK, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today that 116 outstanding young scientists and economists have been selected to receive the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship.
		The new Sloan Fellows are engaged in research at the frontiers of physics, chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics and neuroscience, and are faculty members at 55 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
		In the 50 years that the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been awarding research fellowships, 33 Sloan Fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes and hundreds have received other prestigious awards and honors.
	sev.prnewswire.com /education/20060223/DCTH01723022006-1.html (337 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Home > Search Results > Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr.
		[Sloan, Alfred Pritchard, Jr.] 1875-1966, American businessman and philanthropist, b.
		Sloan Foundation Grants $700,000 to Preserve Electronic History Of September 11, 2001.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/11975.html (182 words)

	Alfred P. Sloan, Late Chairman of General Motors Corporation
		The reason why you may be driving a Ford automobile, but have never driven a Sloan, is that Henry chose to name his car after himself, but Al chose to name his car the Pontiac.
		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.
	www.ishipress.com /al-sloan.htm (655 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Leadership Genius of Alfred P. Sloan: Invaluable Lessons on Business, Management, and Leadership for ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Alfred P. Sloan was one of the most influential business leaders of the 20th century, under his management as president and CEO, (1923-1946) General Motors became the world's greatest car manufacturer.
		This book brings Sloan's innovative practices up to date with instructive case studies that show managers how to duplicate the methods in their own companies.
		Alfred P. Sloan’s achievements during his 42-year career at General Motors went far beyond manufacturing and selling popular cars.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Leadership-Genius-Alfred-Sloan-Management/dp/0071457968 (404 words)

	Sloan - Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Sloan was a member, Advisory Council of the American Liberty League.
		Sloan was vice-president and then president (1923) and GM’s chairman (1937-1956).
		Sloan unceasingly propagated the myth that corporations are central to public happiness and prosperity.
	coat.ncf.ca /our_magazine/links/53/sloan.html (503 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 fl ever elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/funders/sloan.html (457 words)

	MIT Sloan School of Management
		Pioneering leaders at the MIT Sloan Sloan School of Management are transforming global business with innovative solutions.
		MIT Sloan is on the vanguard of leadership innovation.
		MIT Sloan and its corporate partners are driven by the conviction that business must stay ahead of global progress.
	mitsloan.mit.edu (220 words)

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