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Today's managers feel that a once clear separation between public and private sectors has broken down. Specifically, managers are spending heavily on...
Israel faces an imperative to grow in the 1990s. This year, Israel welcomed 200,000 Russian immigrants (a number that will double in the coming year)....
Volkswagen AG is arguably the most daring company in Europe today. Since becoming chairman of the board of management in 1982, Carl H. Hahn has spearheaded a breathtaking program of expansion, acquiring the Spanish carmaker Seat in 1986 and Czechoslovakia’s Skoda in 1990. Today Volkswagen is building or refitting new plants from East Germany to […]
Like the company he heads, George Fisher has built his career around technology. He became Motorola’s CEO 12 years after joining the company from AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he had spent more than a decade as an engineer and technical manager. He holds a master’s degree in engineering and a doctorate in applied mathematics from […]
According to Wickham Skinner (“What Matters to Manufacturing,” HBR January–February 1988), too many managers now approach production difficulties with “a menu of textbook techniques”—CIM, for example—when they should be thinking through the same old questions: What is my business? Where is the market? What machines and flexibilities do I really need? With Skinner’s strictures in […]