When Detroit looked like Silicon Valley

Mike Smitka Autos are today a hi-tech industry; more on that in subsequent posts. The same was true circa 1900. A quick window on the contem...

The Auto Industry: Journals from Detroit

My students have now a cumulative 150+ blog posts on the auto industry, plus 13 separate journals from our visits to firms and other events ...

Mack Stamping, or a Tale of Detroit's Decline

...[Mack] was a six-story structure [from] 1916... Detroit is in bankruptcy for three reasons. One is that a city is a fixed cost enterprise...

Suppliers Constrain Output

By Alisa Priddle, Detroit Free Press Business Writer excerpted by David Ruggles from Could automotive supply chain snap?, June 16, 2013 A c...

Detroit and New Orleans

Detroit’s Recovery Edited from a May 14th, 2013 post by Marybeth Benjamin on the Econ 244 web site The eye opening drive through the city of...

Click on the logo for information on the Automotive News PACE "Supplier of the Year" Award The Award Ceremoney will be Monday, Apr...

Downsizing

W hile interrupted from time to time by the business cycle – exceptionally so at the moment – automotive demand has expanded steadily since ...