WHY JAY LENO IS WRONG ABOUTJAMES NANCE AND PACKARD – PART TWO
MACAULEY’S GHOST KILLS PACKARD’S LAST CHANCE Barely five years after Packard invested in a new…
WHY JAY LENO IS WRONG ABOUTJAMES NANCE AND PACKARD – PART ONE
ALVAN MACAULEY SQUANDERS PACKARD’S CAPITAL, WITH LASTING EFFECT In his Octane magazine column, Jay Leno…
WHY JAY LENO IS WRONG ABOUTJAMES NANCE AND PACKARD – PART THREE
JAMES NANCE: THE RIGHT MAN ARRIVES TOO LATE James Nance would become Packard’s president on…
FIN TALES – A BOOK REVIEW
Fin Tales is chatty, engaging, and easy to read. Written by John Smith about his…
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A DOSE OF REALITY
The herd mentality is alive and well among automobile industry executives, not excluding Mary Barra…
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PAT FOSTER AND THE MYTHS OF PACKARD’S DEMISE
Pat Foster of Hemmings blames the One-Twenty model for Packard’s demise - perpetuating a myth…
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CADILLAC AND THE PENALTY OF FAILURE
To the management of Cadillac, today is about SUVs. Tomorrow is electric. The Cadillac luxury…
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TESLA NEEDS DEALERS TO MAKE A PROFIT
Over one hundred years ago, automobile manufacturers invented dealers to save themselves the capital cost…
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GHOSN v. JAPAN, INC.
In engineering the arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the executives at Nissan displayed their nation’s barbarous…
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MUSK SETS UP THE SEC
You won't see a headline reading "Musk sets up the SEC." But the Securities and…