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The company's sacred divisional structure, created by Alfred Sloan in the 1920s, is being eroded.
ECONOMIST: The quiet man
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He taught us about Alfred Sloan's General Motors and about pension fund capitalism.
FORBES: Our fragile golden age
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When Alfred Sloan took over a nearly bankrupt General Motors in the early 1920s, the rival Ford Motor Co. had an almost 60% market share.
FORBES: GOP: Stuck in Failure
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Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.
FORBES: Connect