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Toyota's Tylenol moment
Alex Taylor III 2010-02-01 11:11By Alex Taylor IIIIn the midst of its biggest recall ever, Toyota is grappling with an existential crisis.By suspending production and sales of eight ...
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A bump in the road to Toyota’s destruction?
Stanley Bing 2010-03-17 08:09This morning brings mixed emotions, I am sure, to Toyota executives, many of whom are probably considering the memo on their desks entitled “Procedure...
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Can the Toyota Way survive Toyota's ways?
Nin-Hai Tseng 2010-03-16 12:42In the 1950s, a Toyota engineer named Taiichi Ohno, just back from visiting the United States, where he was wowed by its supermarkets, began to think ...
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BP's "Mission accomplished" moment
Peter Elkind and David Whitford 2010-08-14 02:41From the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, the end almost seems to be in sight.We flew out to the scene of the Deepwater Horizon explosion on Saturday mo...
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Toyota's CEO on the hot seat
Alex Taylor III 2010-02-26 10:04By Alex Taylor IIIIn making his debut before a congressional committee, Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda could be forgiven for feeling the anxiety of any novice...
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Toyota's no-show leadership
Alex Taylor III 2010-02-08 11:49By Alex Taylor IIIThe last time anyone looked, Toyota was a Japanese company controlled by a Japanese family. But during the entire accelerator recall...
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What's really behind the Toyota debacle
Alex Taylor III 2010-04-20 05:47At 77, Hiroshi Okuda, chairman of Toyota, is still causing trouble for the automaker.He is being painted, most recently in Wednesday's Wall Street Jou...
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Toyota's low-risk dialogue on Digg
Jon Fortt 2010-02-10 07:00by Jon ForttIf you’re Toyota (TM) right now, the last thing you want is more surprises. That might explain why Jim Lentz, president of the U.S. sales ...
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Toyota's Tesla stake heats up the electric car race
Alex Taylor III 2010-05-27 01:39Toyota's announcement that it is making a $50 million investment in upstart electric car maker Tesla got the auto industry's attention this week.If th...
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Buyer interest in Toyota tanks
Alex Taylor III 2010-03-24 10:38On the surface, Toyota would seem to be surviving its sudden acceleration crisis in remarkably good shape.Thanks to one of the most aggressive campaig...