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Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca (/ ˌ aɪ. ə ˈ k oʊ k ə / EYE-ə-KOH-kə; October 15, 1924 – July 2, 2019) was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. [1]
Likewise, Henry Ford II hired the creative Lee Iacocca, who was fundamental to the success of the Ford Mustang, in 1964, but fired him due to personal disputes in 1978 (about the break in their relationship, Iacocca quoted Ford as saying, "Sometimes you just don't like somebody.") Iacocca later retorted, "If a guy is over 25 percent a jerk, he ...
Elena Anne Ford-Niarchos (née Ford; born May 25, 1966) is an American businesswoman. She is the Chief Customer Experience Officer at Ford Motor Company and the first woman in the Ford family to hold an executive position at the company.
Descendants of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. Pages in category "Family of Henry Ford" The following 19 pages are in this category, out of 19 total.
In 1976, Henry II famously resigned from the Ford Foundation’s board of directors, making front-page news in the major papers of the day. As the prevailing account held, he found the foundation ...
After becoming President of Ford, Henry Ford II began fearing that Iacocca would be after the CEO job next. He established a plot to fire Iacocca, and Iacocca was to resign from the company on October 15, 1978, his 54th birthday. In Part 3, "The Chrysler Story", Iacocca tells of his difficult task of saving Chrysler from bankruptcy. [3]
The great-grandson of Henry Ford rarely gives interviews. But we caught up with Edsel Ford II to talk about Le Mans 1966. When Your Dad Is Henry Ford II, Take Your Kid to Work Day Means Destroying ...
You can also count Henry Ford III — great-great grandson and namesake of the patriarch of the automaking family that brought the Model T to life at Ford's Piquette Avenue Plant 115 years ago ...