In fact, Sloan's memoir and management treatise, My Years With General Motors, foresaw some of these problems.

However, unlike many GM executives, Sloan did not put Drucker on his blacklist for writing the 1946 book ; Drucker, in his new introduction for the 1990 republishing of Sloan's memoir, said, " When his associates attacked me in a meeting called to discuss the book, Sloan immediately rose to my defense.

'" Drucker related that for 20 years after that meeting, Sloan and Drucker had a good relationship, in which Sloan would invite Drucker to lunch once or twice a year to discuss Sloan's philanthropic plans and the memoir that Sloan was working on assembling ( what became My Years ).

Sloan's memoir, particularly Chapter 8, " The development of financial controls ", indicates that Sloan and GM appreciated the financial dangers of excess inventory even as early as the 1920s.

It was rumored that Williams got into a shouting match with head coach Sloan during a game against the Chicago Bulls, which preceded Sloan's resignation and eventually, the Jazz's decision to trade Williams.

After young Martin is carried away, Sloan is confronted by his father who, having seen the documents and money with future dates on them in Sloan's wallet, now believes his story.

However, the magnitude of Sloan's philanthropy suggests that he saw himself differently — a man with greater talents and greater responsibilities than others, who was thus entitled to authority but also obligated to, and committed to, beneficence.

A Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the " ideal manager ", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, one of the world's premier business schools.

An Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant established the MIT School of Industrial Management in 1952 with the charge of educating the " ideal manager ", and the school was renamed in Sloan's honor as the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management.

Examples of MIT Sloan's primary initiatives in this arena are the MIT-China Management Education Project, the International Faculty Fellows Program, and partnerships with IMD, IESE, Tsinghua University, the Sungkyunkwan University Graduate School of Business, the New University of Lisbon, and the Skolkovo Moscow School of Management.

Playing coach Jerry Sloan's scrappy and tough style and perfecting the pick and roll to a maximum degree of efficiency, the Jazz regularly made the playoffs with a winning record.

Because of his influential career with the Bulls, the franchise retired Sloan's No. 4 jersey, the first jersey retired by the Bulls.

The Jazz lost, 91 – 86, on February 9, in a game with various subplots such as former Jazz forward Carlos Boozer, now a Chicago Bull, revisiting his former club, and Sloan's long association with the Bulls as a player and coach.

Spanning the period from 1906 to early 1913, the diary soon grew beyond its initial purpose, and its publication in 1965 supplied researchers with a detailed chronicle of Sloan's activities and interests.

Sloan's growing discontent with what he called " the Plutocracy's government " led him to join the Socialist party in 1910.

But in 1894 he had begun attracting attention with decorative illustrations in a new style related to the poster movement ; these works combine the influences of European artists of the late 19th and early 20th century, including Walter Crane, and reveal Sloan's study of Botticelli and Japanese prints.

He discovers Sloan's true name, and compels Sloan with his true name to travel towards Du Weldenvarden, along with his staff and enchantments to stop Sloan from being harmed on his journey.

Pierre du Pont resigned the chairmanship of GM in response to GM President Alfred Sloan's dispute with Raskob over Raskob's involvement with the Democratic National Committee.

Gregg initially set out to improve the English adaptation by John Matthew Sloan of the French Duployé Shorthand, while working with one of Sloan's sales agents, Thomas Malone.

Despite his failure to secure the nomination, Sloan was the first to submit petitions to the board of elections with the Libertarian Party line, which effectively gives him the nomination ; the down-ballot selections on Sloan's petitions are identical to those confirmed by the party committee.

Sloan's visits frequently resulted in feedback and strong interaction with the community.

" History seems to have vindicated Drucker in his belief that Sloan's faith in rationality alone — and in the ability of other white-collar managers to be as astute as he himself was — was overardent, because 40 years later, the management and board of directors who had run the original General Motors Corporation into the ground by 2009 were not " in a position to appraise the broad long-term trends of the market "— or were in that position, but not doing the job successfully therein.

Viking was part of Alfred Sloan's companion make program introduced to help span gaps in General Motors ’ pricing structure, and was marketed through GM's Oldsmobile division.

While Murphy has written more of the band's songs than any of the other members, Pentland is nonetheless responsible for having written many of Sloan's most recognizable hits.

" Sloan's approach to making urban realist art was based on images seen and remembered ( and sometimes written down ) rather than sketched in the street, even though his autographic handling of paint and print media conveys the look of a rapid drawing.

Dembski had known Sloan for about three years, having taught Sloan's daughter at a Christian study summer camp not far from Waco, Texas.

The album's most successful single was Sloan's rendition of " A Case of You ", from Mitchell's 1971 album Blue.

Data from this sample support Van Valen and Sloan's identification of topotypic lower molars, and also demonstrate that the lower dentition of P. unio includes seven postcanines.

Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan's art.

Another of Sloan's assistants, Tyrone Corbin, was named the new head coach, while Scott Layden, the other assistant, remained as well.

Sloan's playing career was cut short by successive knee injuries, and he turned his attention to coaching.

Assistant coach Tyrone Corbin was named as Sloan's replacement.

Sloan's final Dunhill release was a solo single, " I Can't Help But Wonder, Elizabeth " b / w " Karma ( A Study Of Divinations )", once again released under the name Philip Sloan.

In that same year, the important collector Albert C. Barnes purchased one of Sloan's paintings ; this was only the fourth sale of a painting for Sloan ( although it has often erroneously been counted as his first ).

Henri's mentorship was significant in Sloan's training because he encouraged him to paint more, and introduced him to the work of various artists, whose techniques, composition, and style Sloan studied.

Sloan's work had an honest humane-ness, a frank sympathy, he refused to flatten lower-class New Yorkers into stereotypes of misery, and his strong sense of the moments in which ordinary people are seen unawares, or isolated, was to deeply affect the leading artist of the next generation, Edward Hopper.

Sloan's Liniment ( at right ) was once a popular over-the-counter drug store item.

Contemporaries of Sloan, their early work was on Sloan's Murderecords label.

Winning Hearts, the band's fourth and final album, was released in 1998 on Sloan's Murderecords.

Sloan's overall win-loss record at NC State was 266 – 127 in fourteen seasons.

He is best known to audiences as Mark Sloan's ( played by Dick Van Dyke ) police officer son, Lieutenant Detective Steve Sloan, on Diagnosis: Murder, in which fictional relatives were typically played by real-life ones.

He later buys exclusive rights to use Thomas Sloan's machine for making screws which is in the show.

Victor Sloan's video work includes a 44 minute video of an 8 mm looped film fragment of The Little Rascals ,( 1930s ), which destroys itself and catches fire.