Japanese competition recognized by, 654-655
in job hunt, 613-617
on layoff, 607-609, 613-616
under psychological stress, 614-615
recall of, 654
at small nonunion shop, 616-617, 653-654
wages of, 608
Goddard, Joyce Ford, 608, 610, 611, 614, 615, 616, 617
Goddard, Kim, 608
Goddard, Scott, 658
Go-Go-Mobile, 427
Goldman, Sachs, 223, 224, 486, 528, 692
Goldwater, Barry, 367
Gorham, Don, 266-267
Gorham, Hazel, 263, 264, 267
Gorham, William, Jr., 266, 267
Gorham, William R., 263-267, 299
Goto, Mitsuya, 634
Gray, Harry, 692
Gray, John, 70
Great Britain, 641
Nissan plant in, 644-651
Greathouse, Pat, 408, 586-588, 590-592
Great Society, 367
Greece, 698
Greenhill, Bob, 690-691
Greenwald, Jerry, 206-207, 564, 565, 567, 571, 742
Grew, Joseph, 113
Grisanti, Arturo Hernandez, 700
Grosse Pointe, Mich., 188-189
Grosse Pointe Farms council, 39
Grossman, Richard, 501
Guest, Edgar, 355-356
Gunther, John, 108
Hadas, Frank, 87
Haddad, Bill, 640
Haig, Alexander, 626
Halaby, Najeeb, 679
Halsey, William, 107, 108
Halston, 681
Hambrecht, Bill, 335
Hammer, Armand, 460-461
Hara, Teiichi, 298, 301
Harashina, Kyoichi, 400, 424
Harder, Del, 205, 539
Harmon, Kelly, 640
Harriman, W. Averell, 109, 187
Harvard Business School, 254, 407, 601-602
Harvard Law School, 499-500
Hasegawa, Norishige, 704
Hatada, Michio, 139, 146, 148, 182
Hayashi, Tsuyoshi, 283-286
Hayes, Walter, 660
Hertz Rent-a-Car, 604, 622
Higgins, Patillo, 75
high-compression engines, 324, 325
high technology, 702, 703, 708
highway network, U.S., 324
Hiki, Takuzo, 279-280, 281, 282
Hirohito, emperor of Japan, 108
Hiroshima, 133-134
Holbrooke, Richard, 695-696
Holler, Bill, 362
Holusha, John, 736
Honda, Soichiro, 272, 307, 486, 543-544, 582
Honda company, 307, 486-487, 647, 735-736
Hong Kong, 48
Hooven, Fred, 210, 521
Hooven, Jack, 206-207
Hoover, J. Edgar, 347
Hope, Bob, 532
housing, 421
Houston, Tex., 50
Houston Chronicle, 50
Houston Post, 50
Hout, Thomas, 309
Hudson Motors, 39, 329
Hudson’s department store, 52
Hughes Aircraft, 204
Hurd, Peter, 512
hydraulic brakes, 93
Hyundai company, 715-717, 719, 721-724
Iacocca (Iacocca), 678, 682-683
Iacocca, Antoinette, 356, 357
Iacocca, Lee, 32, 352-367, 678-686, 745
audit of, 532, 535
background of, 356-357
board members and, 549-552
Caldwell and, 523-525, 548, 549, 550, 551, 552
Cardinal model killed by, 522
Chris Craft offer to, 385-386
in Chrysler financial crisis, 561-566
in commercials, 569-570
company jet used by, 35-36, 531-532
Davis and, 562-563
dealers and, 353-354, 359
DeTomaso and, 483-484
as Detroit’s spokesman, 35, 389-390
in downsizing debate, 539-541, 543, 545
as egocentric, 570-571
on European trips, 479-480
finance men and, 353-354, 364, 371, 375, 535-536
firing of, 547-552
five-fifty warranty revived by, 568
Ford exiles hired by, 565
as Ford marketing director, 352
Ford Motor Company’s performance under, 535
as Ford president, 388-390
at Ford West Germany meeting, 530
Fraser and, 567, 679
Frey and, 381, 384-385, 569
Fugazy and, 532-535, 685
government bailout engineered by, 564-567
as head of Statue of Liberty restoration project, 684-685
Henry Ford II and, 40, 353, 357-358, 366, 371-373, 376, 377-380, 384, 388, 477-480, 482-484, 519, 527-532, 534-535, 547-552, 678-682
in Honda engine proposal, 543-544
Japanese competition underestimated by, 518-519
on Japanese market share, 736
K car and, 567
Knudsen and, 380-385, 388, 389, 478
large cars favored by, 389-390
Lundy and, 254, 255, 257-258, 353-354, 375, 387, 477, 528-529, 536
Lutz hired by, 741-742
McKinsey study and, 548
McNamara and, 205, 207, 352-353, 356-357, 364-366
market share under, 536
Minivan and, 575-576
Mustang and, 366-367, 370-376
new-product development program and, 528
PIPs program planned by, 466-467, 477
as potential political candidate, 684, 685-686
power consolidated by, 477
publicity on, 374, 376
on quality issue, 508
rivals of, 379-381
salary of, 478, 683
sales bank and, 563-564
as salesman, 360, 362-364
in Samsung deal, 713
Sperlich and, 479, 480, 481, 519, 523, 547, 556, 557, 560, 561-562
Iacocca, Mary, 380, 386, 390
Iacocca, Nick, 356-357, 358, 377-378
IBJ, see Industrial Bank of Japan
IBM (International Business Machines), 229
Ibn Saud, Abdel Aziz, king of Saudi Arabia, 327, 328
Ibrahim, Youssef, 699-700
Ichikawa, Ichiro, 317-318, 320
Ichikawa, Kaoru, 320
Ichimada, Hisato, 397
Ickes, Harold L., 327
Idris, king of Libya, 459
Ikeda, Hayato, 123-124, 303-304
immigrants, 62-63, 67, 277-278, 355-356
India, 698
Industrial Bank of Japan (IBJ), 131-133, 135, 136, 143, 148, 164, 166, 399, 400
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), 84
inflation, 537, 538, 621
Inoue, Kaoru, 130
interest rates, 33, 35, 567, 569, 626
Interior Department, U.S., 201
Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 99, 223, 224
International Harvester, 53, 166, 586
International Nickel (Inco), 691-692
Introduction to Analysis, An (Takagi), 282
Iran, 15-16, 17, 23, 38, 457, 458, 461, 463, 464, 531-532, 581, 613, 697, 699
Iranian State Oil Company, 463
Iraq, 23, 457-458, 699
Ireland, 62
Ishibashi, Tanzan, 114
Ishida, Taizo, 304
Ishihara, Takashi, 434-438
as accounting director, 579
British factory planned by, 644-651
capitalization requests from, 437-438
finance men and, 436-437
Fraser’s meeting with, 591-593
Katayama and, 436-437
as Nissan president, 579-580, 586
one-liter car pushed by, 580
personal qualities of, 585-586
production cutbacks planned by, 580-581
protectionism and, 585
Runyon and, 634-635, 637, 643
Shioji and, 589-590, 643-652
as U.S. exports h
ead, 435
in U.S. plant negotiations, 588-593
voluntary restraints and, 628
Israel, 10, 327, 458, 462, 528
Isuzu, 165, 733
Italy, 645
Iwakoshi, Tadahiro, 580
Jackson, C. D., 41-42
James Flowers and Brothers, 66
Jamieson, John, 460
Japan:
banking in, 131-132
civil service in, 19-20
as hierarchical society, 126-127, 138
Korea’s relations with, 717-719
middle-class surge in, 419-420
nation concept in, 272-273
personal freedoms in, 273
planning in, 17-18, 272-273
population concentration in, 308
postwar industrial design for, 271-274
postwar living conditions in, 127-129, 302
trade policies of, 23-25, 701-706
in World War II, 27-28
Japan, occupied, 106-125
Dodge policy in, 122-125
puritan instinct in, 276-277
Japan Auto Workers (JAW), 184
Japanese Diet, 626-627
Japanese economy:
Asian countries as competitors of, 24
auto industry in, 581-582
communal capitalism in, 20, 24, 273
competitive heavy industries in, 286
consumer market in, 303, 307-308
Darwinism in, 306-307
exports in, 306-307
fragility of, 704-705
in 1950s, 302-303
1986 yen crisis in, 743-744
oil dependency of, 17, 22-23, 511-512
steel industry in, 274-276, 582-583
trading companies in, 294
zaibatsu in, 109, 112, 114, 119, 123, 126, 129, 130, 141
Japanese education:
authority in, 18-19
as competitive advantage, 24
Confucianism and, 272
engineering emphasized in, 276, 277, 278
in industrial advancement, 276, 277
social status and, 277-278
Japanese Union of Engineers, 317
Japan Sinks, 511
Japan Tobacco Inc. (JTI), 702-703
Jews, 85, 188, 277, 327, 355, 357, 358
jobs, export of, 707-708
Joffre, Joseph Jacques Césaire, 77
John Deere, 369
Johnson, Chalmers, 19, 624
Johnson, Deane, 471
Johnson, Edward, 228-229
Johnson, Lady Bird, 194
Johnson, Lyndon B., 194
Ford and, 367, 380
Great Society programs of, 367
Reuther and, 349, 350, 351
Johnson, Peggy, 681
joint production ventures, 712, 713
Jones, Jimmy, 374
Jouppi, Arvid, 43
junk bonds, 689, 694
Juran, Joseph, 314
Justice Department, U.S., 45, 48
just-in-time theory of manufacturing, 81
kachos, 150-151, 419
Kahn, E. J., 224
Kahn, Herman, 704
Kaiser, Edgar, 331, 335
Kaiser, Henry, 331-335, 638
background of, 331
public offerings by, 332
Kaiser-Frazer, 332-335
Kaplan, Sanford, 237, 241
Katayama, Yutaka, 287-293, 424-449, 725-726
in advertising campaign, 512, 513
as antiunion, 289-290
in Australian endurance race, 290-293
background of, 287-288
Datsun 510 and, 446-449
Datsun modifications requested by, 432, 433-434, 441-442, 445, 446-447
dealership network established by, 427-428
forced retirement of, 516-517
high-living charges against, 515
home office and, 513-517
Ishihara and, 436-437
on MacArthur, 288
Majima and, 515-516
Matsumura and, 445-446
as Nissan U.S. West Coast head, 287-288, 289, 424-425, 439
personal qualities of, 439-441
service emphasized by, 429-430
Shioji and, 514
U teams and, 425-426
Kawamata, Katsuji, 131, 135-136, 143-146, 152, 293, 402
Asahara and, 143, 144-145, 399-400, 434-435
background of, 157-159
in British plant debate, 647-651
death of, 742
Dodge Line enforced by, 136, 145-146
economy cars and, 304
expansion pressures on, 308, 394-398
Ishihara and, 580, 647
as Keidanren representative, 581-582, 583-584
labor relations under, 134-135, 144-146, 152, 153, 398
as Nissan president, 400-401
strike crushed by, 163, 164-167, 179, 182-183
supplier companies and, 453-454
U.S. exports and, 301
Kawasaki, Ichiro, 170
Kawasaki Steel, 275-276, 396-397, 695
Kawazoe, Soichi, 396, 426, 430-431, 514
Kefauver, Estes, 330
Kefauver Senate Monopoly Subcommittee, 45, 330
Keidanren business group, 318, 581-582, 583-584, 647, 649
Keller, K. T., 41, 333, 553
Keller, Maryann, 33, 538, 733, 736, 737-739, 743
Kelsey-Hayes company, 344-345
Kemp, Jack, 673
Kempton, Murray, 336
Kennan, George F., 119
Kennedy, John F., 367
Kenyon & Eckhardt, 569-570
Kettering, Charles F., 324-326
Keynesian economics, 26-27
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 15
Killefer, Tom, 8, 9, 10, 554-555
Kim, Stewart, 718
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 350
Kinsley, Michael, 500-501
Kissinger, Henry A., 15, 684
Klann, Bill, 90
Klestadt, Eric, 302
Knudsen, Bill, 88-89, 93, 96, 347, 381-382
Ford and, 88-89
Knudsen, Bunkie, 380-388, 390, 603, 679
Knudsen, Florence, 387-388, 390
Knudsen, Semon E.:
background of, 381-382
as Ford president, 380-381
Ford’s firing of, 386-388
Iacocca and, 380-384, 385, 388, 389, 478
Koch, Ed, 682
Konoe, Fumimaro, 113
Korea, South, 24, 706, 712-724
industrial surge in, 716-717
Japanese competition with, 24
Japan’s relations with, 717-719
U.S. joint ventures with, 712-713
U.S. suppliers and, 713, 714-715
wages in, 716
workers in, 719-724
Korean War, 146-148
Kotz, Nick, 501
Krandall, Norman, 40, 355, 378-379, 573-576
Kucher, Andrew, 369
Kulick, Frank, 83, 87
Kumagai, Tokuichi, 142
Kuze, Hideo, 453
labor unions, Japanese:
Communists in, 114-118
Dodge Line on, 124-125
legalization of, 110-111
under U.S. occupation, 110-111, 114-116
see also Japan Auto Workers (JAW); Nissan Motors Masuda union; Nissan Motors Miyake-Shioji union
Larsen, Wendell, 569
Lasch, Christopher, 682
Laux, Gar, 565
League of Nations, 628
learning curves, 308-309
LeMay, Curtis, 602
Lemcke, Nancy, 673
Lemcke, Norman, 673
Lemke, Ray, 427
Lennox, Don, 509, 541, 710
at Chester plant, 213-221
in manufacturing, 216-221, 242
Vincent and, 217-218
Levin, Hillel, 639
Levy, Gus, 528
Levy, Walter, 461
Libya, 23, 459-461
Liebold, E G.,
86
Little Orphan Japan Syndrome, 705
Litton Industries, 204, 386
Lorenz, Paul, 257
Los Angeles Times, 518
Los Angeles Times-Mirror company, 549
Love, George, 553
Lovett, Robert, 201
Lucas, Anthony, 75
Ludendorff, Erich, 77
Luedke, Kurt, 467
Lundy, J. Edward, 204, 214, 220, 235, 244, 246-259, 740-741
background of, 249-250
cadre developed by, 485-486
diversification opposed by, 486, 487
finance division promoted by, 256-258
financial presentations controlled by, 252-253
Iacocca and, 254, 255, 257-258, 353-354, 375, 387, 477, 528-529, 536
Mini/max and, 575
Niskanen and, 621
personal qualities of, 247-250
personnel policies controlled by, 250-252
power consolidated by, 477
protégés of, 253-256
Runyon and, 506
Sperlich and, 482
Lutz, Bob, 661, 741-742
MacArthur, Douglas, 105-122, 156
Communists suppressed by, 117-118
Dodge and, 122-123
Draper and, 119-120
as generous victor, 107-108
Japanese reforms sought by, 108-110
Katayama on, 288
as thespian, 106-107
McCardell, Arch, 166
McCracken, Paul, 47
MacDiarmid, Orville, 123
McDonnell, Anne, see Ford, Anne McDonnell
McKenna, John, 215
McKinsey company, 548
McLaughlin, Matt, 361, 362
McNamara, Robert, 204-210, 258, 259, 349, 370
as austere, 208-210
Crusoe vs., 234-237
factory men vs., 219-220, 234, 237-238, 240-242
as Ford division manager, 237-238, 240-241, 379
Iacocca and, 205, 207, 352-353, 356-357, 364-366
in paint oven battle, 241
profit drive under, 243-244
as statistically minded, 205-208, 209-210
as Whiz Kid leader, 204-205
McNaughton, Jim, 568
Majima, Hiroshi, 515-516
Maki, Shin, 298, 301
Making Democracy Safe for Oil (Rand), 328
Makino, Nobuaki, 113
Malayan Language Study Group, 148
Malaysia, 706
Malcolmson, Alexander, 70
management-speak, 198
managerial class, 197-198
Manchester Guardian, 368
Manchukuo, 131
Manhattan Fund, 230
Mansfield, Mike, 591
Manufacturers Hanover, 556
Marathon Oil, 53, 695-696
Marcos, Imelda, 472, 531
Marquis, Samuel, 87-88
Marsh, Barbara, 166
Marshall, Harry, 265
Marshall, Mayfield, 440, 448-449, 512-513, 516, 725
Martin, Ed, 93
Martindale, Charles, 100
Marx, Karl, 25
mass production, 59-60, 72-74
at Ford, 59-60, 72-74
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