Detroit News Online (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
Ask people in Washington or on Wall Street who they want to see running General Motors Co. and the answer is the same: another Alan Mulally. Without any experience in the auto industry, he ended Ford's decade-long decline in U.S. market share, changed its notoriously careerist corporate culture and secured enough financing to allow it to weather the economic crisis without resorting...
Detroit News Online (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
When Bill Ford Jr. decided in 2006 that fixing Ford Motor Co. was a bigger challenge than he could handle, he began making a list of the qualifications he wanted in his replacement.
Autoblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... anyway, regardless of its economic and market position. And it does kind of make us wonder if Alan Mulally could simultaneously run two carmakers... [Source: The Wall Street Journal ] REPORT: Spencer Stuart tasked with finding new GM CEO originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments
Horse Racing Tips & Tipping Review Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Winner £3,886 7 runners 1m 100.1% Fivefold 100.1% Master Of Dance 99.5% Joe Rua 99.2% Danger Mulally 98.9% Nave 98.0% Khanivorous --.-% Huygens 8:20 Groomed To Perfection, The Kia Soul Maiden Stakes (CLASS 5)(3yo+) Winner £2,590 8 runners 6f 100.0% Chosen Son 99.8% Suzi´s Dancer 99.7% Ajjaadd 99.0% Zegna 98.9% Nativity 98.7% Clever Omneya 98.1% Lady Dinsdale 97.4% Major...
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... reading the headline would probably suffice for them. [Source: Wall Street Journal ] TIP: "Mulally easily met Ford's list of qualifications" WHAT WAS IT: Pitch / Article WHY WE DIDN'T COVER: The Detroit News 's Bryce Hoffman provides so many story favors to Ford we're wondering if he's even got time to wipe his mouth in between swallowing down the missives for favorable stories...
China Car Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
... industry executives. His name often comes up in speculation about a successor to Ford CEO Alan Mulally, and has been among those mentioned as General Motors Co. searches for a new CEO to replace Fritz Henderson. Hinrichs worked for GM earlier in his career. “I have not had any inquiries from General Motors. I’m happy to be at Ford,” he said Monday. He had been Ford’s group vice president...
Re*Move (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Like a prized suburban garden, Ford is cleaning up in the neat-and-tidy-American-car-company stakes. Joe Simpson pushes past the perimeter and asks, is it enough? Last week, 100 ‘agents’ pulled the covers off the 2011 Ford Fiesta at the LA auto show in the climax of the six month-long “ Fiesta Movement ”. Just a couple of weeks before, Automobile magazine named Ford’s CEO, Alan Mulally, their...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
Next GM leader needs to accomplish what Ford CEO Alan Mulally does
1853 Chairman (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
... GM boss also is poised to unofficially teach GM a new language, much like Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally did after arriving in Dearborn three years ago. Expect Whitacre-speak to be heavy on no-nonsense facts, with a premium on clarity, simplicity and accountability — the antithesis of an inbred GM lingo that evolved in recent years from an ’80s-era patois but never really died. Out of favor,...
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Car guys know exactly what’s wrong with GM: car guys like them aren’t running the show. Otherwise, every Chevrolet, GMC, Buick, and Cadillac would look “great” (no need to be more specific) and dust the competition. Hence Bill Ford’s decision to hire Alan Mulally to take over as CEO came as [...]
TrueDelta (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Well, Henderson it out as CEO of GM, and they’re hunting for a replacement. Who should it be? The auto industry includes a number of high-profile CEOs who get a lot of press for their big personalities and willingness to make the big decisions. Then there is Alan Mulally, who has gotten credit for sound financial [...]
The Truth About Cars (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
When it comes to the freshened 2010 Ford Fusion, TTAC’s got you covered like Alan Mulally’s life insurance policy. Over the past few months, no less than three full-length reviews have served up our impressions of the base gasoline 4-cylinder SE (with manual trans, no less), the hot-rod AWD 3.5-liter V6 [...]
Just Auto (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... the CEO role on a permanent basis and elevate GM to a new level, galvanise the whole firm the way Mulally has at Ford. Maybe Henderson could have dropped hints that he would step down from the CEO role 'soon', but that he would carry on in a supportive capacity of some sort in the future if that was appropriate. Yesterday's abrupt departure looks clumsy. What does it say? Even that was not...
Emptywheel (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... auto business works–and he may well be right. But I remember how similar things were said of Alan Mulally (who came from Boeing), and he certainly stirred up Ford in a good way. Here are my thoughts. First, I was up in GM’s Tech Center just after Henderson took over. And I could tell that at least at the product level, Henderson had a great deal of support. He had said GM was going to change...
