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Ford groomed Mark Fields to assume the automaker’s top position for a long time, but his tenure as CEO will be short-lived. On Sunday the company announced that he’ll be officially replaced amid a downturn in the auto industry and concerns over Ford’s stock price. So what happened?
In case you were, you know, sleeping overnight, reports of a huge management shakeup at Ford came out. Ford confirmed it Monday, announcing Mark Fields was out as CEO and Jim Hackett would take over. But a person promoted under Hackett, Jim Farley, is probably the real future of Ford.
Like General Motors and Fiat Chrysler, Ford Motor Company has continually failed to convince Wall Street analysts and investors of the worthiness of its stock price over the last few years. Tonight, reports indicate that situation may have cost Ford CEO Mark Fields his job at the automaker.
Since Donald Trump’s campaign for U.S. president began, the real estate mogul has been intensely critical of Ford and its plans to shift all small car to production to Mexico after 2018. So, within days of Trump taking office, it was striking that Ford CEO Mark Fields announced Tuesday that his company will actually…
Ford has come a long way in defending itself from targeted attacks and threats by President-elect Donald Trump, and CEO Mark Fields is now taking his company’s position as the top automotive manufacturer in America to lay down some ground rules.
“That’s right!” said Ford CEO Mark Fields, almost to himself. He’d just announced that Ford would offer a fully-autonomous car by 2021. The crowd seemed less than enthused. “Woo,” Fields added.
In a December 14th interview Ford Motor Company CEO Mark Fields told with NPR radio host Ari Shapiro that the company has “plans to have a rear-wheel drive hybrid truck but the end of the decade.”
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Since Mark Fields was named incoming CEO of Ford, we don't know what outgoing CEO Alan Mulally has planned. As promised, Ford will make that clear today in a press conference at 9 a.m. Watch it here.
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Alan Mullaly is still the CEO of Ford Motor Company, but people are already thinking about what kind of company his presumed successor Mark Fields is going to run. And they're probably jumping to conclusions prematurely.
This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:30 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
A man named "Mark Fields" was just outed as probably the next CEO of Ford. But who is he? What's his background? Does he know anything about cars? Does he bring in any outside blood? And what's the deal with the luscious mane that sits atop his head? Here are all your Mark Fields questions, answered.
Surprising absolutely no one, Ford will name executive Mark Fields the CEO of Ford Motor Company, replacing Alan Mulally according to Bloomberg, who says the announcement could be made officially as soon as next month.
This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:30 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
This is The Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parse it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
Ford's been on an amazing streak building great cars that manage to sell to the masses. It's been a single brand turnaround that deserves all the praise we've been giving it. Ford's "premium" Lincoln brand is entirely made up of rebadged Fords that are slightly nicer and unreasonably more expensive. It's been a…
Forbes reports on the position Mark Fields is in, now that he has been named the chief operating officer at Ford. The promotion puts him in line to succeed Alan Mulally, but Ford chairman Bill Ford also made it clear that Fields will have to earn it. Still, Bill Ford pointed out that Fields has been through the wars…
According to Bloomberg, Mark Fields — mullet enthusiast, Ford Motor Company's then and current president of the Americas, and reportedly a leading candidate to succeed Alan Mulally as CEO of the automaker — nearly got into a fistfight with the car company's former CFO over a marketing budget and had to be restrained…
