Chrysler's strength demonstrates that even a North American legacy auto company can achieve durable success by coming up with a continual stream of new or improved vehicles--the Jeep division has great new products on line and in the pipeline--and by paying painstaking attention to costs.
Primerica's history dates back to the booming 1980s, when celebrated investor Gerald Tsai turned an aluminum- and tin-can maker American Can into a financial services company.
The book touches on the subjects of the success and failures of the an iconic American company and shows how a leading family can cause so much harm to the company.
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So essentially, I can see any North American company would want to be buying either Nokia or RIM.
What makes this situation more complicated is that it creates an environment in which a legitimately-run foreign firm that buys an American company, and thus can raise money by issuing shares, is lumped in with companies that operate nefariously.
Clearly, the Mitsubishi companies have paid no attention to the lessons learned years ago by American companies: that no one company can do everything.
Clearly the Mitsubishi companies have paid no attention to the lessons learned years ago by American firms: that no one company can do everything.
Buying an American company and hiring American employees can be fraught with legal problems if the Chinese investor is not clearly aware of the allowances given for American workers.
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American Airlines and any other company that can't fulfill its core mission on a regular basis, whether it's safe and efficient airline travel or safe peanut butter or cynanide-free Tylenol, may not be long for this world.
With its space shuttles now museum pieces, NASA is paying Russia to launch U.S. astronauts until SpaceX or another American company comes up with spaceships than can safely fly crews.
The wealthy Chinese businessperson who owns a Chinese company and wants to buy an American company so his son or daughter can go to UCLA. These purchases tend to be more random.
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Just as e-commerce brought a virtual shopping mall of products and services into every American living room, e-work can give any company, small or large, access to virtually any skill set they need.
Later this year, Lucent, an American telephone company, will launch a system where surfers can have a conversation with a call centre over the Internet.
So this company is a great example of what American manufacturing can do in a way that nobody else in the world can do it.
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For Fujitsu, the market for smart phones is far more attractive than its earlier North American foray into ordinary cell phones because smart phones can provide the company with higher margins.
Otherwise how can Yahoo stop itself becoming an American version of a Japanese bureaucratic company?
American firms can incorporate in any state, and that state's company law governs the firm throughout America.
With the NFL Network is available in only about 40% of American households, Sprint executives hope the NFL games can do for their company what the league's Sunday Ticket package has done for satellite-television provider DirecTV Group.
Its posh, company-owned American Girl stores are as close as you can get to Apple Store profitability in the toy-selling business.
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Beijing time the only window in which Asian, American and European executives can realistically connect, says Liu (no relation to the company founder).
In British or American takeovers, shareholders can easily sue if they feel that any other shareholders, including company directors, have been especially favoured.
An entrepreneur can get started on little capital in the American heartland and keep his or her costs low if the company takes off.
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