Cover of Time Magazine (December 27, 1926)

Alfred Pritchard Sloan, Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966), long-time president and chairman of General Motors, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He studied electrical engineering and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1892. Image File history File links Cover of Time Magazine (December 27, 1926) w/ Alfred P. Sloan This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the... Image File history File links Cover of Time Magazine (December 27, 1926) w/ Alfred P. Sloan This image is of a scan of a magazine cover, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the magazine or the individual contributors who worked on the... May 23 is the 143rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (144th in leap years). ... 1875 (MDCCCLXXV) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... Nickname: The Elm City Official website: www. ... Official language(s) English Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport Area  Ranked 48th  - Total 5,549 sq. ... This article treats electronics engineering as a subfield of electrical engineering, though this is not typical use in some areas. ... The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or MIT, is a private research university located in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT is one of the worlds leading research institutions in science and technology. ...

He became president of a machine shop making ball bearings in 1899. In 1916 his company merged with United Motors Corporation which eventually became part of General Motors Corporation. He became Vice-President, then President (1923), and finally Chairman of the Board (1937) of GM. In 1934, he established the philanthropic, nonprofit Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 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. General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution in the United States, was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. ... Donaldson Brown (1885-1965) was a financial executive and corporate director with both DuPont and General Motors. ... John Jakob Raskob (1879-1950) was a financial executive and businessman who became chairman of the Democratic National Committee and a key supporter of Alfred E. Smiths candidacy for President of the United States. ... Pierre Dupont (1821-1870), songwriter Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739-1817), entrepreneur Pierre Samuel du Pont IV (1935-), once governor of Delaware This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the DuPont company. ...

Sloan is credited with establishing annual styling changes, from which came the concept of "planned obsolescence". He also established a pricing structure in which (from lowest to highest priced) Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick and Cadillac did not compete with each other, and a buyer could be kept in the GM "family" as their buying power and preferences changed as they aged. These concepts, along with Ford's resistance to the change in the 1920's, propelled GM to industry sales leadership by the early 1930's, a position it retains to this day. Under Sloan's direction, GM became the largest and most successful and profitable industrial enterprise the world had ever known. Chevrolet, or Chevy for short, is a brand of automobile, now a division of General Motors. ... This article concerns the automobile; for the Native American leader, see Chief Pontiac, for the city in Michigan, see Pontiac, Michigan. ... The final Oldsmobile Logo, an update of the Rocket theme used in various forms since 1948, debuted in 1997 until the final Olds rolled off the line in 2004. ... Buick is a brand of automobile built in the United States, Canada, and China by General Motors Corporation. ... Cadillac is a brand of luxury automobile, part of the General Motors corporation, produced and mostly sold in the United States and Canada; outside of North America, they have been less successful. ...

During Alfred P. Sloan's leadership of GM, many public transport systems of trams in the US were replaced by buses. Many of the trams themselves were literally burnt in order to prevent any reversal in public transport policies. Some believe that GM orchestrated this bustitution; see General Motors streetcar conspiracy for details. Frequencies of bus services were decreased on less profitable routes, helping to encourage people to buy their own automobiles and travel independently. This article refers to the mass transit vehicle running on rails. ... First bus in history: a Benz truck modified by Netphener company (1895) TheBus, established by Mayor Frank Fasi, is Honolulus only public transit system. ... Bustitution is sometimes used to name the practice of replacing train service, whether street railways (light rail or tram/streetcar systems) or full-size railway systems, with a bus service, either on a temporary or permanent basis. ... The General Motors streetcar conspiracy refers to a contention that General Motors (GM), acting in conjunction with several other companies and through the National City Lines (NCL) holding company, illegally acquired many streetcar systems in various cities around the United States, dismantled and replaced them with buses for the express... This article or section is missing references or citation of sources. ...

In the 1930s GM, long hostile to unionization, confronted its workforce, newly organized and ready for labor rights, in an extended contest for control. Sloan was averse to violence of the sort associated with Henry Ford. He preferred the subtle use of spying and had built up the best undercover apparatus the business community had ever seen up to that time. When the workers organized a massive sitdown strike in 1936, Sloan found that espionage had little value in the face of such open tactics. Further information: Ford Motor Company Time Magazine, January 14, 1935 // Early life Henry Ford, 1888 Ford was born on a prosperous farm in Springwells Township (now in the city of Dearborn, Michigan) owned by his parents, William Ford (1826-1905) and Mary Litogot (c1839-1876), immigrants from County Cork, Ireland. ... A sitdown strike is a form of civil disobedience in which an organized group of workers, usually employed at a factory or other centralized location, take possession of the workplace by sitting down at their stations, effectively preventing their employers from replacing them with scab labor or, in some cases...

The world's first university-based executive education program — the Sloan Fellows — was created in 1931 at MIT under the sponsorship of Sloan. 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. A second grant established a Sloan Fellows Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1957. The program became the Stanford Sloan Master's Program in 1976, awarding the degree of Master of Science in Management. The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. MIT Sloan is one of the worlds leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic management, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, supply...

Sloan retired as chairman on April 2, 1956 and died in 1966. April 2 is the 92nd day of the year (93rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 273 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Lammot du Pont (1831-1884) was a key member of the du Pont in the mid-nineteenth century. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... Charles Erwin Wilson (July 18, 1890 - September 26, 1961), American businessman and politician, was United States Secretary of Defense from 1953 to 1957 under President Eisenhower. ... Pierre Samuel du Pont (1870-1954) was president of the DuPont company from 1915 to 1919, and served on its Board of Directors until 1940. ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... William S. Knudsen, March 25, 1879-April, 27, 1948, was a leading automobile industry executive and a general in the U.S. Army. ...

See also

• The Alfred P. Sloan Prize. Given to films dealing with science and technology by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation each year at the Sundance Film Festival

The Alfred P. Sloan Prize is an award given each year, starting in 2003, to a film at the Sundance Film Festival. ... The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a philanthropic nonprofit institution in the United States, was established in 1934 by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. ... The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks amongst the top five events of its type in the world. ...

External links

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whose total assets had a market value of over $1.5 billion in 2005
• review of Klein and Olson's film Taken for a Ride
• contribution of Alfred P. Sloan to changes in rapid transit systems
• extract from Bradford C. Snell, American Ground Transport: A Proposal for Restructuring the Automobile, Truck, Bus and Rail Industries. Report presented to the Committee of the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, United States Senate, February 26, 1974, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1974, pp. 16-24.