阿尔弗雷德·斯隆

小阿尔弗雷德·普里查德·斯隆（，），曾經長期擔任通用汽車公司的總裁、執行長及董事長。

批評
在2005年，斯隆在通用汽車的工作受到批評：斯隆創造的複雜會計制度，令到美國製造商不能實行精益生產，從而導致這些製造商不能與‘非斯隆式公司’－－例如豐田公司等，進行有效的競爭。總括而言，批評者認為，在斯隆的方法之下，一家公司將存貨的價值，等同現金的價值，即是說大量的庫存不會對公司有不利的影響。不過，事實上過量的庫存，不但不利公司的運作，而且會產生很高的隱藏成本。 (Waddell & Bodek 2005)

另一項批評是斯隆把車間的員工，看作為可以消耗的製造業成本之一。這種觀點，正好跟豐田的看法相反。豐田認為車間的員工，是節約成本和提高生產率的主要來源。(Waddell & Bodek 2005)

然而在麻省理工學院教授所著關於汽車業的書籍"改變世界的機器"(另譯臨界生產方式)一書中指出，豐田精實生產方式是豐田汽車在二戰後資金設備不足，所以無法買進大量零件，只好有多少訂單才買多少零件，並設法將沖壓鋼板形狀的機械改成能多型車款使用，並非豐田原本就如此安排，豐田的零件供應商發生火災意外時曾造成豐田生產線停擺一星期。再者美國的汽車銷售方式也與日本不同，美國許多汽車經銷商營業土地廣大，常一次買進大量各顏色配備車款擺在展售現場供客戶當場挑選，成交後兩三天就可交車，與日本人願意接受下買車訂單後等一兩個星期再交車不同。

有批評者聲稱斯隆就是破壞美國城市大眾運輸系統的元兇。詳見通用汽車電車陰謀。

通用汽車公司因違反反托拉斯被罰5000美元，同時每位經理被罰一美元。

慈善事業
艾爾弗．斯隆基金是一個慈善非營利組織，於1934年由當時身任通用汽車公司總裁兼董事長的艾尔弗雷德·斯隆創立於美國。這個基金會致立於資助各種科學、科技、提高生活水平及經濟發展的研究開發，且提供科技人員教育的機會。

整個基金會的資產大約在180億美元左右。史隆基金會在1956年曾資助華納兄弟的暢銷卡通《》。

名言
*经营是企业的天职。（The business of business is business.）
*以各類車型滿足各階層，各種用途的需要 （A car for every purse and purpose.）(Sloan 1963, p. 438)

• "I am sure we all realize that this struggle that is going on though the World is really nothing more or less than a conflict between two opposing technocracies manifesting itself to the capitalization of economic resources and products and all that sort of thing." - 1941年5月
• "It seems clear that the Allies are outclassed on mechanical equipment, and it is foolish to talk about modernizing their Armies in times like these, they ought to have thought of that five years ago. There is no excuse for them not thinking of that except for the unintelligent, in fact, stupid, narrow-minded and selfish leadership which the democracies of the world are cursed with… But when some other system develops stronger leadership, works hard and long, and intelligently and aggressively - which are good traits - and, superimposed upon that, develops the instinct of a racketeer, there is nothing for the democracies to do but fold up. And that is about what it looks as if they are going to do." -1940年6月

參見
*The Alfred P. Sloan Prize. Given to films dealing with science and technology by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation each year at the Sundance Film Festival
*Sloan was a leading member of The Crusaders, an organization that promoted the repeal of National Prohibition of alcohol in the US.

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註解
外部連結

• [http://www.sloan.org Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, whose total assets had a market value of over $1.5 billion in 2005]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20021115122755/http://www.interactivist.net/transportation/ride.html Review of Klein and Olson's film Taken for a Ride]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20071213102723/http://rapidtransit.com/net/thirdrail/9905/agt4.htm Contribution of Alfred P. Sloan to changes in rapid transit systems]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20021107195145/http://www.corpwatch.org/campaigns/PCD.jsp?articleid=4368 Extract from Bradford C. Snell, American Ground Transport: A Proposal for Restructuring the Automobile, Truck, Bus and Rail Industries. Report presented to the Committee of the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly, United States Senate, February 26, 1974, United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1974, pp. 16-24.]
• [http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070505&articleId=5571 Hitler's Carmaker: The inside story of how General Motors helped mobilize the Third Reich]
• [http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=us&vol=334&invol=573 Find Law]
• [http://www.culturechange.org/issue10/taken-for-a-ride.htm Taken for a Ride]