Alan Mulally

Interesting interview of Alan Mullaly here and also here.  Mulally is Ford’s CEO, and ran Boeing’s commercial airplane business until 2006 when he replaced Bill Ford in that role (Bill Ford is still Chairman).  In my mind, hiring Mulally may have been Bill Ford’s best and most important decision.  Both articles are worth a few minutes, but one thing that really stood out to me is this proclamation from Mulally: “The most important thing...  

DETROIT (TheStreet) -- Ted Reed explains how Alan Mulally has impacted the major new moves at Ford by bringing his Boeing experience to the equation and the one rule from Boeing that will forever change Ford.  

In an exclusive interview, Ford CEO Alan Mulally explains how his Boeing experience helped him lift an ailing automaker during a recession and raise the share price -- without taking a government bailout.  

WAYNE, Mich. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally says the automaker plans to speed up its debt repayment as its financial condition continues to improve. Mulally also told reporters at a briefing Friday on its new vehicles that Ford will keep its advantage over Chrysler and General Motors next year. Ford has gained sales and market share while its Detroit competitors were forced to take government aid and go through bankruptcy...  

DETROIT — Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally said the company is "not disadvantaged" compared to its competitors and won't try again to wrest cost-savings from the United Auto Workers before the current contract expires in 2011.  

The economic storm that battered the US automotive industry has forced Ford Motor Company into a better position, chief executive Alan Mulally said Friday.Ford has undergone an intense restructuring in recent years that has left it a leaner and more focused company."We're on a clear path to profitability now," chief executive Alan Mulally told reporters. "It's probably in the strongest position it's ever been in."  

2010 Man of the Year: Alan Mulally, CEO Ford Motor CompanyThe man at the helm of America's last remaining independent car company.A year ago, when the heads of Detroit's Big Three - GM's Rick Wagoner, Ford's Alan Mulally, and Chrysler's Bob Nardelli - appeared in the infamous Capitol Hill bailout hearings, many lawmakers, and many Americans, decided that this trio from the industrial heartland could all be tarred with the bad-CEO brush. There...  

Ford’s CEO Alan Mulally said that the automaker intends to pay off its private debt in an expedited fashion as the company’s finances continue to improve moving forward. Ford has already paid back $10 billion in private debt this year alone. Three years ago Ford mortgaged its assets in order to secure a $23.5 billion private [...]  

Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally said today he had talked this week with General Motors Co. Chairman and interim CEO Ed Whitacre. Mulally, who Ford hired away from Boeing Co. three years ago, did not discuss details of his conversation with Whitacre.  

Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Sheila Dharmarajan reports on the performance of Ford Motor Co. Chief Executive Officer Alan Mulally and how he may serve as a model for General Motors Co. as the automaker searches for a new CEO. Some analysts suggest hiring outside of the company, as Ford did with Mulally. (Source: Bloomberg)  

Ford Ka shares frame with Olga Kurylenko (source: Ford) The diminutive Ford Ka will not be heading to the United States according to a recent Automotive News interview with Ford CEO Alan Mulally. In the interview, Mulally stated to the trade publication, Our view is that the Fiesta is about the smallest vehicle that we think will be a real success in the United States. Some industry watchers had speculated that because Fiat will offer the Ka...  

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 Fords 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 to a government bailout.  

Ford’s global product portfolio will be trickling into the United States market later this year with the arrival of the Fiesta and, later, the world market Focus, but company CEO Alan Mulally says that’s about the end of the road – for now. The European-developed Ka subcompact and Australian-developed Ranger pickup will not enter the [...]  

Filed under: Ford, GM, Humor Word has it that Ford CEO Alan Mulally and the new interim CEO of General Motors, Ed Whitacre, had a phone conversation this week. This type of across-the-aisle conversation is not unusual, as Mulally himself placed a call to each of his competitors when he arrived in D-town from Boeing three years ago. We weren't on the call ourselves and neither CEO has divulged any details of their conversation, so we're left...  

Filed under: Hirings/Firings/Layoffs, Ford When Alan Mulally arrived at Ford Motor Company three years ago, the Blue Oval was in bad shape. New product wasn't exactly pouring in and the company's cash hoard was steadily shrinking. And word on the street is that the corporate culture at Ford was in as much trouble as the product lineup, making change difficult. Now in 2009, it appears Mulally has done the near impossible, turning around Ford's...