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Published: May 26, 2009
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The Best Years of the Auto Industry Are Still to Come

Reprint No. 09204

Author Profiles:

  • Ronald Haddock is a Booz & Company partner based in Zurich. He has been with the firm since 1994 and has spent 10 years in Asia in the firm’s China, India, and Korea offices. During his recent assignment in Shanghai, he led the auto and industrials practice in Greater China.
  • John Jullens is a principal with Booz & Company in Cleveland. He specializes in demand-side transformation issues, including revenue growth strategies, brand management, customer retention, and retail channel effectiveness for clients in North America, Europe, and Asia.
  • Also contributing to this article was consulting editor Michael Sisk.
 
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Resources

  1. American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and Booz & Company, “China Manufacturing Competitiveness 2008–2009,” 2009: Overview of manufacturing in China, with a window into global strategies for the short and near term.
  2. Stewart Brand, “City Planet,” s+b, Spring 2006: Where the owners of those millions of new automobiles will live.
  3. Joyce Dargay, Dermot Gately, and Martin Sommer, “Vehicle Ownership and Income Growth, Worldwide: 1960–2030,” Energy Journal, October 2007: Further data and analysis on the threshold of mobility.
  4. Pankaj Ghemawat, Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter (Harvard Business School Press, 2007): Long-term view of international enterprise, with high relevance for global vehicle makers.
  5. Bill Jackson and Vikas Sehgal, “One Billion New Automobiles,” s+b, Winter 2006: Prescient glimpse of the forces described in this article.
  6. Barry Jaruzelski and Kevin Dehoff, “Beyond Borders: The Global Innovation 1000,” s+b, Winter 2008: How auto components company Visteon and others are building out worldwide R&D footprints.
  7. Art Kleiner, “Pankaj Ghemawat: The Thought Leader Interview,” s+b, Spring 2008: The seer of “semiglobalization” discusses how to recognize and manage the distance among nations.
  8. Jim O’Neill et al., BRICs and Beyond (Goldman Sachs Global Economics Group, 2007): From the team that coined the term BRICs, research on Brazil, Russia, India, China, and the “next 11” countries (similar to what we call REEs).
  9. Jessie Scanlon, “What Can Tata’s Nano Teach Detroit?” Business Week, March 18, 2009: Posits inexpensive cars in emerging markets as the wave of the future.
  10. Eric Spiegel and Neil McArthur with Rob Norton, Energy Shift: Game-Changing Options for Fueling the Future (McGraw-Hill, 2009): How the power train and other energy options may evolve, taking vehicle makers with them.
  11. IHS Global Insight Web site; Economist Intelligence Unit Automotive Briefing and Forecasts Web site: Sources of statistics on current and forecasted future automobile demand.
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