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Safety and affordability for motorcyclists who shift to the Nano and Ratan Tata's vision for the Nano
01/08/2008
About 1800 people die in traffic accidents in New Delhi each year and most of them are on motorcyles, whole families on a motorbike. This was the image in Ratan Tata's mind behind his vision of a 1 lakh rupee ($2000) car affordable to the motorcycle Indian. Is it safe, for the motorcycle rides and passengers its a lot safer being in a car.
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Economist 01/10/2008
Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 CarNew York Times 01/08/2008
A tolerant Islamic world- the world of Hamza
01/06/2008
A more tolerant world has existed in Islamic Central Asia, South Asia and Iran, over long perids that were also punctuated by periods of conflict. Europe has experienced this also as the ebb and flow of religious strife and of tolerance prevailed in different periods.
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New York Times 01/06/2008
Eat Your Heart Out, HomerNew York Times 01/06/2008
Ford Motor Company and the shift in message to "Quality, Green, Safe and Smart" from "American" or being "powerful" (1)
01/06/2008
Farley brings fresh thinking to marketing and advertising at Ford to get themes like safety and green into buyers minds.
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Wall Street Journal 03/18/2008
Ford's EcoBoost Engine Excites MarketerNew York Times 01/06/2008
Bosch and Tata Motors
12/30/2007
Bosch wants to invest $500 million euros in India by 2010. It plans get to sales of 1 billion euros by 2010 selling to lowcost makers like Tata for which it makes a specially designed engine for the $2500 Nano car.
Linked Articles
Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 Car
New York Times 01/08/2008
Bosch Wants to Expand Supply For Low - Price CarsNew York Times 12/30/2007
Ford in the Indian market.
12/13/2007
Ford to invest $500 million to make small cars in India and turn it into a regional manufacturing hub with sales goal of 200,000 cars for 2010.
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Wall Street Journal 12/13/2007
Ford to Expand in India, Planning a Small Car and an Engine PlantNew York Times 01/08/2008
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11/20/2007
On the decline of the US dollar and how the countries of the Persian gulf are dealing with this issue.
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Economist 11/29/2007
Wealthy Nations In Gulf Rethink Peg to DollarWall Street Journal 11/20/2007
Ford's expansion in Asian markets 2007-2008
10/10/2007
Ford's investments across Asia, in China, India and Thailand and plans for lower cost cars for the hundreds of millions of customers who can afford a really low priced car in the $2500- $7500 price range.
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Ford to Build Car Plant in Thailand
New York Times 10/10/2007
Ford to Expand in India, Planning a Small Car and an Engine PlantNew York Times 01/08/2008
Conversation with Ratan Tata.
08/27/2007
Tata will get Land Rover and Jaguar for about $1 billion when it cost $5 billion to acquire these assets and has invested heavily since then. The credit squeeze gives Tata these assets at a good price.
Linked Articles
Tata May Bid for Ford's Luxury Brands
Wall Street Journal 08/27/2007
Tata Pulls Ford Units Into Its OrbitNew York Times 01/04/2008
VW's transition from failing in the U.S. market to competing effectively with Toyota and American automakers- 2007-2013
07/23/2007
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VW Gains Traction With Big U.S. Push
Wall Street Journal 01/11/2013
Can VW Finally Find Its Way In America?BusinessWeek 07/23/2007
Doug Parker of US Airways and the proposed merger with American Airlines (AMR) in 2012
11/20/2006
Linked Articles
Lessons Learned? How US Airways Would Navigate Merger - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal 11/20/2006
Steven Pearlstein: Two can play the airline bankruptcy game - The Washington PostWashington Post 04/29/2012
Handan Iron & Steel Works, Hebei Province, and ThyssenKrupp, Dortmund, Germany, a world away- bad decisions and environmental pollution in China
10/02/2006
Did China's government officials underestimate the cost of environmental pollution in bringing the old polluting plant from Dortmund, Germany? How much will a cleanup cost? In 2007? In 2015 or 2020? Were these costs figured in? Who got the better deal- Germany or China?
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Why Beijing Is Trying to Tally The Hidden Costs of Pollution As China's Economy Booms - WSJ.com
Wall Street Journal 10/02/2006
China Grabs West’s Smoke-Spewing FactoriesNew York Times 12/21/2007
How the U.S. views Japan, China, and Japan-China relations (1)
05/11/2006
Linked Articles
The Limits on Nationalism in Japan
New York Times 07/23/2013
New York Times 05/11/2006
Southwest Airlines' continuing effort to overturn the 1979 Wright Amendment, a federal law restricting flights from Dallas Love Field
05/10/2005
Efforts were made in 2005 to increase flights beyond the restriction to 7 states- originally the law restricted flights to 4 states. Southwest has been fighting this law passed as an amendment to an aviation law by U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright in 1979. Its intention was giving American Airlines the incentive to build a giant hub at the new 1974 Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
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Southwest, United Locked in Dogfight
Wall Street Journal 05/24/2012
Southwest's Dallas DuelWall Street Journal 05/10/2005
How McDonalds has changed by borrowing ideas from Starbucks and from the next generation of franchisees
01/07/2008
McDonald's takes the ideas of baristas from Starbucks and gets ideas for picture based ordering, credit card payment and community event participation from younger franchisees. Along the way it is trying to change perception of the chain as not being healthy eating. A lot remains to be done to move away from the super size obsesson.
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McDonald's Takes On A Weakened Starbucks
Wall Street Journal 01/07/2008
'Super Size Me' Generation Takes Over at McDonald'sWall Street Journal 03/08/2012
The military and civilian leadership in Pakistan for six decades since independence and the U.S. involvement in S. Asia
01/06/2008
Militancy shifts to a younger generation of leaders in the border provinces of Pakistan, Baluchistan, Northwest Frontier province and Waziristan. Taliban was a creation of the Pakistan army to create strategic depth for Pakistan by getting a Islami militant run organization take over Afghanistan after the Russians left. It has turned into a complete mess as that militancy has spread to Pakistan's border provinces.
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New York Times 01/06/2008
Next-Gen TalibanNew York Times 01/06/2008
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01/05/2008
European examples of ethnic conflict over centuries, here the Scottish-English conflict -the struggles of William Wallace Robert Bruce and others. Ethnic and religious conflict caused the creation of Pakistan.
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New York Times 01/06/2008
Of Braveheart and BushWall Street Journal 01/05/2008
Reform at Pemex and opening up Mexico's oil industry to foreign investment held up for a decade and the cost to the Mexican economy
12/19/2007
Reforms at Pemex and opening up the oil industry to foreign investment were held up in the Calderon administration after repeated efforts by the PAN party government to get the PRI and PRD's support. The final changes to the bill to make it more attractive for foreign oil companies to compete with Pemex were pushed by PAN in alliance with the PRI Nieto administration in 2013. The cost to Mexico is a lost decade in oil exploration in deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and a steep decline in oil revenues as Mexico turned into a net energy importer in March 2013, according to the WSJ.
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Economist 12/19/2007
How Shale Helped Frack Mexico's Energy ImpasseWall Street Journal 12/12/2013
How changes in free trade policies are being shaped by the efforts to improve lives of Ohio, Iowa midwesterners.
11/21/2007
How Ohio and Iowa are calling for changes in free trade policies to improve the lives of ordinary Americans.
Linked Articles
A Globalization Winner Joins in Trade Backlash
Wall Street Journal 11/21/2007
It Must Be OhioNew York Times 02/24/2008
Ratan Tata and his vision for the Nano automobile
10/12/2007
Ratan Tata's small car vision coming true. Ingenuity of Indian engineers to build a car for the motorcycle millions. who can upgrade to an Indian style jellybean vehicle on 4 wheels.
Linked Articles
Four Wheels for the Masses: The $2,500 Car
New York Times 01/08/2008
In India, a $2,500 Pace CarNew York Times 10/12/2007
The experience of Petrobras of Brazil and Mexico's Pemex compared.
08/30/2007
Transformation of state oil companies, Pemex and Petrobras. Struggling with the similar issues, President Calderon of Mexico takes them on over 10 years after President Cardozo faced them in Brazil in 1995.
Linked Articles
Economist 12/19/2007
How a Sleepy Oil Giant Became a World PlayerWall Street Journal 08/30/2007
Richard Branson's Virgin America and Virgin Atlantic
07/30/2007
Virgin America Richard Branson's American airline brings new competition to America. Branson's Virgin operations do things differently, have their own ways of doing things to stand out with customers, and in costs and facilities.
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Wall Street Journal 01/05/2008
No, the CEO Isn't Sir Richard BransonWall Street Journal 07/30/2007
Auto parts manufacturing in China and India.
06/07/2007
As the auto parts manufacturing shifts to Asia and other countries companies like Visteon and American Axle close US plants and move to new plants overseas. China and India become major base for autoparts manufacturing and determine the economics of the autoparts industry.
Linked Articles
Wall Street Journal 01/23/2008
Chinese Auto Parts Enter the Global MarketNew York Times 06/07/2007
Doug Parker of U.S. Airways working on his second merger wih American Airlines after difficulties with the first merger
11/20/2006
Linked Articles
US Airways Chief Describes Biggest Challenges in AMR Settlement
Wall Street Journal 12/02/2013
Lessons Learned? How US Airways Would Navigate Merger - WSJ.comWall Street Journal 11/20/2006
Friedman of NYT compared Detroit carmakers to "crack dealers."
06/02/2006
With their gasoline rebates and gasoline purchase paid credit cards to buyers of large SUV's, GM and Ford were increasing America's dangerous dependence on imported oil. Contrst that with the vigorous approach of Hyundai to fuel efficiency. And go fast forward to 2009 when Hyundai sees August 2009 sales 47% higher than August 2008 sales, Hyundai being the only large car company to increase sales by end of 2009 in the American market.
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Detroit's No Good, Very Bad May
BusinessWeek 06/02/2006
Hyundai Aims for Efficiency LeadWall Street Journal 09/03/2008
Toyota's IMV series of vehicles for emerging markets reaches a milestone in 2012- 1 million vehicles on one platform
05/12/2005
This is the best any automobile manufacturer has done on one platform. The design, single chassis, lower price points and customization for rough road conditions in emerging markets, give the IMV architecture and manufacturing operations a unique advantage.
Linked Articles
Toyota Pushes Emerging-Markets Production
Wall Street Journal 04/07/2012
For Toyota, a New Small Truck Carries Hopes for Topping GMWall Street Journal 05/12/2005
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