The Engine That Could: Seventy-Five Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company - Hardcover

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L.; Sicilia, David B.

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9780875846132: The Engine That Could: Seventy-Five Years of Values-Driven Change at Cummins Engine Company
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ISBN 10: 0875846130 ISBN 13: 9780875846132
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 1997

Synopsis

The rise of Cummins Engine Company from a tiny Indiana machine shop to one of the world's leading producers of diesel engines is a story rich with lessons for today's managers. By responding to challenges familiar to all American manufacturers with a tough competitive stance and a uniquely people-centered philosophy, Cummins has carved out a distinctive position in the international industrial landscape. From its early days with charismatic founder Clessie Cummins to its continued proud independence in an age of hostile takeovers, Cummins has done business with confidence and creativity. This vivid book depicts the tough choices--often with enormous consequences--that must be made by successful managers.

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About the Author

Jeffrey L. Cruikshank is President of the Cruikshank Company, Inc., and the author or coauthor of numerous business books, including several published by HBS Press.

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"Carefully researched and written with verve, The Engine That Could shows us what it takes to be successful in an era of take-overs, mounting political pressures, and intense global competition. A must for the aspiring business leader as well as for the general reader who wants to understand America's shifting role in the world economy." --Louis Galambos, Professor of Business and Economic History, Johns Hopkins University

"The Engine That Could should be required reading for business managers, analysts, and historians who seek to understand how an extraordinarily well managed firm maintained its competitive core capabilities through depressions, war, and the postwar boom, and then navigated through the temptations of diversification, threats from unfriendly capital markets, and challenges from powerful foreign competitors, to emerge as the nation's sole remaining independent diesel engine producer. This is a model business history." --Alfred D. Chandler Jr., Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, Harvard Business School

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Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0875846130
ISBN 13 
9780875846132
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
640
Rating
  • 4.60 out of 5 stars
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