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Automotive Industry

Auto making is one of the world’s most important manufacturing industries – but for how much longer? Learn about traditional American brands, Japanese management methods, alternative fuel engines and the future prospects for an industry that runs on oil.

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Summaries

7 Video

A New Climate for Doing Business
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World Economic Forum, 2016
8 Book

Myths of the Oil Boom
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Steve A. Yetiv
Oxford UP, 2015
9 Book

The Grid
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Gretchen Bakke
Bloomsbury USA, 2016
8 Book

The Toyota Way
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Jeffrey K. Liker
McGraw-Hill, 2003
9 Book

Toyota Kata
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Mike Rother
McGraw-Hill, 2009
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The Toyota Way Fieldbook
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From Big Oil to Big Green
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Marco Grasso
MIT Press, 2022
8 Article

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Henry Sanderson
The Wire China, 2022
9 Book

Learning to Lead, Leading to Learn
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Katie Anderson
Katie Anderson, 2020
8 Article

Boosting ESG Performance in Today’s Energy Supply Chains
Alex Dolya et al.
Boston Consulting Group, 2022
9 Book

Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster
Adam Higginbotham
Simon & Schuster, 2019
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Toyota Production System
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