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Ulrike Schaede comments on Toyota's Congressional trial and recovery

02/24/2010
Micheline Maynard, The New York Times

WASHINGTON — There are no crown princes at the Ford Motor Company, its late chief executive, Henry Ford II, was fond of saying about the family business.

But for a quarter-century, there has been a crown prince at Toyota.

And now it is up to Akio Toyoda, grandson of the company’s founder, to steer his family’s battered company back on course.

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Schaede is an authority on Japanese business organization. Her expertise was recently utilized by The San Diego Union-Tribune, also reporting on Toyota's slide.

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