Eventos
John S. Gray
June 16, 1903, John S. Gray invested
$10,500.00 in the Ford Company.
The $500.00 was tacked on to the
$10,000.00 to secure John’s position as
CEO of the Ford company.Henry Ford I
Ford company rolled out the first Model T 1908. In order
to meet overwhelming demand. Ford introduced revolutionary
new mass-production methods, including large production plants,
the use of standardized, interchangeable parts and, in 1913,
the world’s first moving assembly line for cars.Henry Ford II
One of his first acts as CEO was to place
John Bugas in charge of taking control of
the company from its entrenched management
and firing Harry Bennett, head of the Ford
Service Department, who had originally
been hired by Henry Ford to stifle attempts
at unionization. Next, acknowledging his
inexperience, he hired several seasoned
executives to support him. He hired former
General Motors executives Ernest Breech
and Lewis Crusoe.Phillip Caldwell
Approved and oversaw the development and
launch of the Ford Taurus (and its corporate
sister the Mercury Sable) which were introduced
to the media days before his retirement, thus
allowing him to take public credit for the Taurus
program, which became one of the biggest
successes in automobile business history.Donald Petersen
Turned around Ford's 1980 $1.5 billion
one-year loss, with a record breaking series
of new designs and revamped thinking that took
the company into black ink and end-of-the-decade
record sales, Petersen managed to increase Ford's
U.S. car market share nearly 25 percent, from 17
percent in 1980 to 21 percent nine years later.Harold Arthur Poling
During a financial crisis in the early 1980s,
Mr. Poling, as leader of Ford’s North American
auto operations, approved spending $3 billion
to engineer an aerodynamic sedan named
Taurus that became the top-selling car in
the United States.Alex Trotman
One of Trotman's main contributions at Ford was the Ford
2000 initiative, launched in 1995. This was an attempt to
unify and consolidate Ford's manufacturing, marketing
and product development forces around the world.
The initiative produced $5 billion in cost savings,
and produced $7 billion in profits for Ford in 1997.Jacques Nasser
Nasser promptly instituted a number of changes as CEO, closing
plants that were losing money and selling unprofitable operations.
He also instituted a new human resources policy mandating that 10
percent of low-performing managers could be subject to termination.
Beyond human resources, Nasser's other focus was brand management,
and under Nasser's watch, in 1999 Ford formed Premier Automotive Group
(PAG) to expand its market share in the luxury segment.William Clay Ford, Jr.
As CEO, he improved quality, lowered costs and delivered
exciting new products. During his time in that position
he took the company from a $5.5 billion loss in 2001
to three straight years of profitability.Alan Mulally
One of Mulally's first decisions at Ford was to bring back the
Taurus. Mulally Also led the effort for Ford to borrow $23.6
billion by mortgaging all of Ford's assets. Mulally said that he
intended to use the money to finance a major overhaul and
provide “a cushion to protect for a recession or other unexpected
event". At the time, the loan was interpreted as a sign of desperation,
but is now widely credited with stabilizing Ford's financial positionMark Fields
Fields oversaw the carmaker's recovery from the Great Recession
and its most profitable year ever, 2015, when the company made
almost $11 billion.But Ford shares slid by 30% under his leadership,
as investors steadily worried about slackening auto profits in a
potential US sales downturnJim Hackett
Current CEO of Ford Motor CompanyPeríodos
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