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Selling China's Cars to the World: An Interview with Chery's CEO
7/23/2008 - China's top car exporter, Chery, sold about 120,000 cars in nearly 70 foreign countries in 2007 and has seven assembly plants in Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America. To learn more about Chery and its automotive export plans, McKinsey & Company interviewed Chairman and CEO Yin Tongyao, who explains why the looming energy crisis is an opportunity to sell Chery's small and mid-market cars in mature markets.

Building a Better Way: Winning Automotive Production Strategies
7/23/2008 - An automotive manufacturer's ability to boost its efficiency continues to play the most important role in achieving success. Learn about the six essential ideas that can help automotive players boost their production performance.

Preparing for a Slump in Earnings
7/16/2008 - Economic trends suggest that earnings may decline more than most executives expect. Learn why boards and executives shouldn't postpone efforts to plan for downturns – and should develop initiatives to seize the competitive opportunities that a slump may unearth.

Driving Your Dollars: Boosting Auto Marketing Spend Effectiveness
7/16/2008 - Auto marketers need new ways to cut through the clutter and cut costs. Learn more about five marketing spend imperatives that can help marketers hone their messages, successfully target and reach customers during the shopping process, and simultaneously reduce their marketing costs.  

Take the Total Company Performance Challenge and Win an Amazon Gift Certificate Worth €50!
7/9/2008 - In autumn 2008, McKinsey & Company will release the findings from its 2008 Total Company Performance (TCP) analysis. The TCP analysis provides a holistic performance rating of all major automotive OEMs. McKinsey would like to invite Automotive & Assembly Extranet users to try their hand at identifying the five highest-performing automotive OEMs in terms of their TCP results prior to their announcement. Those who name the Top 5 in the right order have a good chance to win 1 of 10 Amazon gift certificates. Take a chance and good luck!

Speeding Up Metals and Mining Post-Merger Integration
7/9/2008 - The boom in commodity prices over the past five years has led revitalized metals and mining companies to embrace mergers and acquisitions as a route to growth. As transaction prices have risen, however, financial markets are putting new pressure on management teams to deliver the value embedded in deals more quickly. Learn more about the key levers that managers can apply to accelerate the integration process.

Starting Up as CFO
7/2/2008 - As an increasing number of executives become chief financial officers (CFOs), their abilities to understand where and how value is created, and to develop strategies for influencing ongoing performance management will shape their future success. Learn more about the select vital tasks that all CFOs must tackle in their first hundred days on the job.

McKinsey Interview: Stefan Knupfer, Director and leader of McKinsey's North American Automotive & Assembly Sector, and Russell Hensley, an Automotive Expert
7/2/2008 - The debate surrounding greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change is unlikely to cool down anytime soon. Because of the outsized role the automotive industry will likely play, the Automotive & Assembly Extranet asked Stefan Knupfer and Russell Hensley of McKinsey & Company's Automotive & Assembly Sector in the US for their perspectives on the likely impact of GHG abatement on the auto industry. Read what they said about the differences in GHG abatement solutions across regions in the automotive industry, the prospects for meeting the challenging new industry fuel economy standards, and how "green car" innovations could save the industry from commoditization.  

 
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