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Alfred P. Sloan Jr.

An American businessman (1875-1966) who was president and chairman of the board for General Motors. He began his career as president of Hyatt Roller Bearing, which made ball bearings. In 1916, this company merged with United Motors Company, which became part of GM two years later. Sloan remained at GM for the rest of his career and became president in 1937. Sloan is believed to have been the first to change designs of car models from year to year. This concept became known as planned obsolescence. He was also a noted philanthropist; however, he was accused of assisting Nazis during World War II.

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Milligan of the University of British Columbia organized the meeting, which was sponsored by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Longer Working Lives and Labor Demand

We are excited to screen this film for our audiences in Qatar before it releases commercially elsewhere in the region." The winner of the Audience Award and Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance Film Festival 2018, 'Searching' is the story of a desperate father, who breaks into his missing 16-year-old daughter's laptop to look for clues to find her.

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In other news, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation granted DPLA $1.5 million to help the organization expand public libraries' access to ebooks for their collections, making them more easily available to readers.

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) joined forces with the Library of Congress (LC) for a new collaboration

The daughter of a NASA engineer, author Margot Lee Shetterly is an independent scholar and an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award recipient, currently at work on The Human Computer Project, a digital archive of the stories of NASA's Human Computers.

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Menlo Innovations has won the Alfred P. Sloan Award for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility for eight years running and has tripled the size of its physical office several times.

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Durham, NC, October 27, 2013 --(PR.com)-- DesignHammer is honored to receive the Alfred P. Sloan “Excellence in Workplace Effectiveness and Flexibility” award for the second year in a row.

DesignHammer Recognized Again for Exemplary Workplace Practices

Riverbed Technology (NASDAQ: RVBD) said it has been honored with the 2012 Alfred P. Sloan Award for Excellence in Workplace Effectiveness and Flexibility.

Riverbed rewarded for workplace practices

He also attended two non-degree programs at Harvard University, including as an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and the Goldman Sachs Nonprofit Leadership Program at Harvard Business School.

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Valley of Saints , which won the audience award as well as the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance, will open the Hamburg festival, scheduled to take place from September 27 to October 6.

Valley film to inaugurate Hamburg film fest

But all the new services will not be eligible for Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant subsidized pricing, as were previous services.

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The survey is designed, administered and analyzed by the Babson Survey Research Group with support from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.