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WILL - Focus - July 16, 2012 ~ Comment (0)

Inside Apple: How America’s Most Admired—and Secretive—Company Really Works

Adam Lashinsky, Senior Editor at Large, Fortune Magazine

Host: David Inge

Apple is the richest company in the world. Apple is also one of the world’s most secretive companies. By all accounts it’s not a very nice place to work. As journalist Adam Lashinsky says, employees are expected to follow orders, not offer opinions. At the same time, Apple employees are very loyal, and the company has done very well. It’s the richest company in the world. What is the secret to Apple’s success? And should others take it as a model? We’ll explore these and other questions as we talk with the author of the book "Inside Apple."

This is a repeat broadcast from Monday, March 05, 2012, 11 am

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Categories: Business

WILL - Focus - June 27, 2012 ~ Comment (0)

American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

Bryce Hoffman, Award-Winning Journalist

Host: David Inge

At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was running on empty. In an effort to save the American auto industry, Congress offered a bailout. GM and Chrysler took the money, but Ford decided to save itself. The company did it by hiring an outsider, Alan Mulally. It turned out to be a very good hire. By early 2010, it was clear Ford had pulled off one of the most amazing turnarounds in history. We’ll get the story from our guest, Bryce Hoffman, author of "American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company."

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Categories: Business, Economics

WILL - Focus - May 02, 2012 ~ Comment (0)

Innovation and the Role of the University

With Debasish Dutta, Ph.D. (Associate Provost and Dean of the Graduate College; the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering; Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois; Scholar-in-Residence at the National Academy of Engineering), and , and Larence Schook, Ph.D. (Vice President for Research; the Edward William and Jane Marr Gutgsell Professor, Department of Animal Sciences; Director of the Division of Biomedical Sciences, University of Illinois)

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Categories: Business, Education




WILL - Focus - October 28, 2011 ~ Comment (0)

Collision Course: Ronald Reagan, the Air Traffic Controllers, and the Strike That Changed America

With Joseph A. McCartin, Ph.D. (Associate Professor of History; Director, Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor, Georgetown University)

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