Wharton MBA for Executives

Random musings, diatribes, and possibly curious insights of a student of the Wharton MBA for Executives (West) program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Good Bye NUMMI

August 25th, 2009 by RVD · 1 Comment

In John Paul MacDuffie’s Management of People class we discussed the NUMMI plant in Fremont. It’s a fascinating plant run by Toyota and GM and they produced some great cars. In fact, I wrote a blog post about it last year here.
Well, it looks like they are finally shutting it down. Toyota, […]

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Nummi Plant

July 10th, 2008 by RVD · 1 Comment

I grew up in Detroit so I grew up around the auto industry. The UAW basically ran Detroit (and in my opinion, ultimately ruined the city). But anyway, our management professor has done a lot of research in the auto industry and last session we discussed the Nummi plant in Fremont, CA. […]

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