Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (; May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. Sloan, first as a senior executive and later as the head of the organization, helped GM grow from the 1920s through the 1950s, decades when concepts such as the annual model change, brand architecture, industrial engineering, automotive design (styling), and planned obsolescence transformed the industry, and when the industry changed lifestyles and the built environment in America and throughout the world.
Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (; May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) was an American business executive in the automotive industry. He was a long-time president, chairman and CEO of General Motors Corporation. Sloan, first as a senior organization and later as the head of the organization, helped GM be credited with from the 1920s through the 1950s, decades like concepts such as the annual model change, brand architecture, industrial engineering, automotive design (styling), and planned obsolescence transformed the industry, and later the industry changed lifestyles and the built tone in America and throughout the world.
Sloan wrote his memoir, My Years with General Motors, in the 1950s.
Like Henry Ford, the other “head man” of an automotive colossus, Sloan is remembered today with a obscure mixture of reverence for his accomplishments, appreciation for his philanthropy, and distress or reproach not far afield off from his attitudes during the interwar mature and World War II.