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Biographical Sketches
WILLIAM J. ABERNATHY has been a professor of business
administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of
Business Administration since 1972. Before joining Harvard he
taught at Stanford University and at the University of California
at Los Angeles. Dr. Abernathy holds a B.S. in electrical
engineering from the University of Tennessee and an M.B.A. and
D.B.A. from Harvard University.
ALAN A. ALTSHULER is a professor in and the chairman of
the Political Science Department at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1957
and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1959 and
1961, respectively. Dr. Altshuler has taught at several
institutions, including Swarthmore College and Cornell University,
and has served as the chairman of the Governor of Massachusetts'
Task Force on Transportation. He is a member of the National
Academy of Public Administration and the American Political
Science Association and is the author of several books.
J. AMES K. BAKKE N has been Vice-President, Operations
Support Staff, at the Ford Motor Company since 1979. Before
assuming that position he was Vice-President, Body and Assembly
Operations, at Ford. Mr. Bakken holds a degree in engineering
from the University of Wisconsin and an M.B.A. in industrial
management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He
has held numerous positions at Ford, having begun his career there
as a student engineer in 1945.
KIM B. CLARK is an assistant professor at the Harvard
University Graduate School of Business Administration. He holds
an A.B., an A.M., and a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard
University and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Before joining the
Harvard faculty, Dr. Clark worked as an economist in the Office
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of the Secretary, U.S. Department of Labor. He is the author of
numerous papers and has served as a member of The Brookings
Institute's Panel on Economic Activity.
DONALD F. EPHLI N is Vice-President and Director of the
N ational Ford Department of the United Auto Workers (UA W).
Before assuming that position, he served as the director of the
UAW's Region 9A and as administrative assistant to the then UAW
President, Leonard Woodcock. Mr. Ephlin began his career with
General Motors and has spent most of his career with the UAW,
having served as president of one of its locals from 1949 to 1960.
DONALD A. HURTER is the manager of Arthur D. Little's
Automotive Technology Unit. Prior to joining Arthur D. Little,
Mr. Hurter served in a managerial capacity with several firms,
including six years as Vice-President, General Manager, of the
Aircraft Division of Standard Thomson Corporation. He received
his B.S. in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and his M.S. in engineering from Yale in
thermodynamics and internal combustion engines. He is a mem-
ber of the Society of Automotive Engineers and is a registered
professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
TREVOR O. JONES, Vice-President and General Manager,
Transportation and Electrical and Electronics Operations, TRW,
Inc., is responsible for all engineering activities within that
organization. Prior to joining TRW in June 1978, Mr. Jones spent
19 years with General Motors (GM). His most recent position was
as Director of GM's Proving Grounds, which he assumed in 1974.
Mr. Jones served on the National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory
Council, up.. Secretary ot ~ ransportat~on, in 1971 and was
appointed Vice-Chairman of the council in 1972. In 1975, Presi-
dent Ford appointed him to a three-year term on the National
Highway Safety Advisory Committee. He received the U.S.
Denartment of Transportation's Safety Award for Engineering
Excellence in 1978. He is a fellow of the British Institute of
Electrical Engineers and received its Hooper Memorial Prize in
1950. He is also a fellow of the American Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers. Mr. Jones holds many patents and is
the author of many papers on the subjects of automotive safety
and electronics.
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H ELK N R. KAH N is the Washington Bureau Chief for
Automotive News. She holds a B.A. degree, magna cum laude,
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f rom Bridgewater College and an M.A. from Vanderbilt Univer-
sity. From 1944 to 1947 she worked for Pathfinder Magazine and
for the U.S. Army Intelligence doing crytoanalysis for the Bureau
of National Affairs. She has taught in the English Department of
the University of Maryland and has been a free-lance writer of
magazine articles and ghost writer for books.
DUANE F. MILLER is Vice-President, Engineering, at Volks-
wagen (VW) of America, Inc. His entire professional career prior
to joining V W in 1977 was at the Pontiac Motor Division of
General Motors. Mr. Miller holds a B.S.M.E. from the University
of Nebraska and an M.B.A. from Michigan State University. He is
a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers, the Engineer-
ing Society of Detroit, and Rotary International.
RALPH L. MILLER is Vice-President of Market Development
and Strategic Planning for the Light Vehicles Group at Rockwell
International. Prior to assuming that position, lDr. Miller was the
Director of Manufacturing Facilities Planning, Worldwide Product
Planning, at General Motors. He has a B.A. degree from Amherst
College and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology. Dr. Miller has taught at the University of Detroit and was
marketing manager for Adam Opel in Germany.
RICHARD H. SHACKSON is the President of Shackson
Associates, Inc. Prior to founding his own business, Mr. Shackson
was Assistant Director of Transportation Programs at the Energy
Productivity Center, Carnegie-Mellon Institute of Research, and
the Director of Environmental Research at the Ford Motor Com-
pany. He holds a B.S.E.E. from the Case Institute of Technology
and has served on the National Academy of Sciences' Transporta-
tion Research Board, Office of Technology Assessment Advisory
Panels, and has served as President of the Transportation
Research Forum.
P. ETER D. ZAGLIO is Vice-President, Securities Division,
Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. His professional analytical career,
which has included employment at Smith Barney; Harris Upham;
and Loeb Rhoads, Hornblower, has been focused on the automo-
tive industry. He holds a B.A. in economics from Cornell
University and an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton Graduate
School.
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The Committee on Technology and International Economic and
Trade Issues (National Academy of Engineering-National Research
Council) has conducted a series of seven industry-specific studies.
Each study provides a brief history of the industry, assesses the
dynamic changes that have been occurring or are anticipated, and
offers a series of policy options and scenarios to describe
alternative futures of the industry.
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Representative terms from entire chapter:
business administration
