{"id":4761,"date":"2010-03-11T17:08:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T22:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4761"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:01:06","slug":"toyota-pushing-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/03\/11\/toyota-pushing-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota pushing ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4762\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/03\/Toyota-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"Toyota logo\" width=\"136\" height=\"91\" \/>Despite recalls and bad PR , Toyota says it will use no-interest loans and lease discounts to help <a title=\"regain\" href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-11\/toyota-seeks-to-regain-most-of-lost-u-s-market-share-in-2010.html\" target=\"_blank\">regain<\/a> over the rest of 2010 the U.S. market share lost over the past two months.\u00a0 School of Management Dean <a title=\"Louis Lataif\" href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\/about\/dean\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Lataif<\/a>, a former Ford executive, says when one automaker launches a big incentive program others\u00a0usually follow.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;In this instance, however, with Toyota uniquely suffering a precipitous drop in February sales as a consequence of the spate of unfavorable headlines, competitors will likely wait to judge the impact.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Louis Lataif, 617-353-2668, <a href=\"mailto:lelataif@bu.edu\">lelataif@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite recalls and bad PR , Toyota says it will use no-interest loans and lease discounts to help regain over the rest of 2010 the U.S. market share lost over the past two months.\u00a0 School of Management Dean Louis Lataif, a former Ford executive, says when one automaker launches a big incentive program others\u00a0usually follow. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[2465,2464,2466,1336],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7848,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions\/7848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}