title: Hog wild.
abstract: In a little over a decade, Harley-Davidson went from being a symbol of everything that was wrong with American manufacturing to the archetypal American success story, a company that was able to beat the Japanese at their own game. Its secret: combining the best of Japanese business practices with closeness to the customer that is so intense it's scary.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D003258:Consumer Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D007221:Industry / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009049:Motorcycles; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D009936:Organizational Innovation; D014481:United States