A global gathering of International Motor Vehicle Program (IMVP) researchers and guests at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, hosted April 2-3 by IMVP Co-Director John Paul MacDuffie (right), discussed industry changes from Detroit to Brazil.

University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor and IMVP Research Scientist Frits Pil presents during the April 2-3 researchers' meeting in Philadelphia.

Research reports included Sloan Industry Fellow Matthias Holweg and University of Pittsburgh Assistant Professor Frits Pil's update on their book-in-progress. Case Western Reserve University Professor Susan Helper discussed new research on 2nd tier suppliers. Helper is looking at the impact of factors such as global competition and economic pressures from both auto industry original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and raw materials producers.

IMVP Co-Director John Paul MacDuffie (left) talks with Francisco Veloso (right) of Carnegie-Mellon, who shared research on manufacturing systems.

The two-day session included demonstrations of Wharton's FutureView, an interactive teaching tool, and a web-based case study of brown field transformation, developed by the MIT Engineering Systems Learning Center headed by CTPID's Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld.

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Program Leadership

John Paul MacDuffie
Co-Director
Associate Professor in Management,
the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Cusumano
Co-Director
Sloan Management Review Distinguished Professor of Management

John B. Moavenzadeh
Executive Director

Donna Carty
Program Manager