In 1997 a team led by Bernd Matthes, chief engineer at a BorgWarner transmission plant in Germany, came up with a concept for a dual-clutch transmission technology, which gives a fuel-efficient manual transmission the smooth feel of an automatic.
Talk about pressure: Nissan's Mississippi plant is a key component in Chief Executive Carlos Ghosn's ambitious plan to boost worldwide sales by 1 million vehicles, or nearly 40%, by 2005.
In the second experiment, subjects were assigned to act in a scenario where achief financial officer of a pharmaceutical company was negotiating to sell a manufacturing plant.