The bibliography [<== link!] is on a separate page.
Week I
Monday 24 Apr Course Introduction: Smitka & Warrian Chs 1-2
Entry/Exit, Monopoly, Oligopoly,
Vertical Integration, Product Differentiation
Interactions with technology
Tuesday 25 Apr Dynamics: Smitka & Warrian Chs 3-4
Entry/Exit, Geographic Realignment (Klepper)
Product Differentiation: Horizontal, Vertical (Offer)
Wed 26 Apr Dynamics: Smitka & Warrian Ch 5 (early class end)
Industrial Policy and Developing Markets
Thurs 27 Apr Durable Goods and Product Cycles (Durable Goods)
Ford’s greatest rival in 1920? – himself (Tedlow)
Lemons (Akerlof)
Presentation: CarMax
Fri 28 Apr Franchising (doublemarginalzation)
Car production as a cash production machine
The implications of OEM cost structure
Franchising: Issues & Structures
Presentation: AutoNation
Week II
Mon 1 May Guest speaker David Ruggles, including lunch and dinner.
CANCELLED due to health issues
Tues 2 May from distribution to manufacturing
Vertical Integration or not (Chandler on GM)
Presentation: General Motors
Wed 3 May Suppliers
New roles: Smitka & Warrian Chs 6-7
Presentation: Ford
Thur 4 May Suppliers
Smitka & Warrian Ch 8-9
Case Studies: Gentex
Presentation: Federal Mogul
Fri 5 May Labor and misc
Smitka & Warrian Ch 10
Rothstein Chs 1 & 4
Presentation: Delphi
Week III
Sun May 7th
Arrive in Detroit
Dinner at Al Ameer in Dearborn
Mon May 8th
Ford Rouge tour [one every 20 mins or so]
Henry Ford Museum [point of departure/return for Rouge tour; lunch venue]
Detroit drive
Tues May 9th
8:30 am Federal Mogul, Port Street at M-14 & Beck Rd
11:30 am Mcity, Baxter Rd at Huron Pkwy in Ann Arbor
1:00 pm lunch with Bruce Belzowski of UMTRI at Zingerman’s Deli
2:00 pm visit to UMTRI with a talk by Belzowski and by Dr. Sullivan the simulation lab (Human Factors Group)
dinner in Ann Arbor
Wed May 10th
Fed Reserve at 10 am
Drs. Paul Traub & Martin Lavelle
Piquette Museum [where the Model T was made]
Dinner with Automotive News / Wards
Jim Treece (AN), Dave Versical (AN), Steve Finlay (Wards)
Thurs May 11th
9:30 am Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor
1:30 pm Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) in Auburn Hills
3:30 pm Giffin in Auburn Hills
6:00 pm Dinner at Triple Nickel, 555 S. Old Woodward, Ste. 100 Birmingham, MI 48009
Fri May 12th
leave by 7 am
9:30 am CSP Carey Ohio: factory tour (also see Giffin installation)
Week IV
Mon 15 May no class
Tues 16 May
Morning: Carvana presentation
Skype with David Ruggles
Skype with David Ruggles
Wed 17 May
Skype with David Ruggles
Thur 18 May: prepare posters for Spring Festival
Final Dinner at The Palms
Fri 19 May: Spring Festival 12-2 pm