Goldman Sachs Group Inc. / Porsche / Could Ford Motor Co. / Ford Motor Co. / the Boeing / Enron / Volkswagen Group / Volvo / Nissan / Hallmark Inc. / G100 / Citigroup / Hyundai / Continental Airlines / Alan / Airbus / Nokia Corp. / Yum! Brands Inc. / Chrysler / Estee Lauder / Japan Inc. / Renault / GM / Sprint Nextel / Penguin Group (USA) Inc. / Korn/Ferry International / CTPartners Executive Search / /
Continent
America / Europe / Americas / /
Country
France / Canada / Korea / Germany / United States / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Product Issues / Bankruptcy / Product Recall / /
Facility
Ford’s headquarters / Directors Institute / /
IndustryTerm
mass producer / car / machinery / cellphone giant / race car / search industry / transportation employing alternative energy / search committees / search story / manufacturing / pony car / search strategy / search committee partners / car guy / assembly-line manufacturing / search / sleek transportation / discussed hiring a search firm to be its full partner / /
Organization
Lead Director Academy / Wharton School / Directors Institute / Clinton administration / Aspen Institute / Hockaday’s committee / MIT’s Sloan School / /
Person
Bill Ford / Recruitment / Alan Mulally / Harry Stonecipher / Henry Ford / Bryce G. Hoffman / Jorma Ollila / John L. Thornton / Alan Roger Mulally / William Clay Ford Jr. / Robert Rubin / Gordon Bethune / Nikki / John J. Keller / Mark Fields / Carlos Ghosn / Dennis Carey / Jacques Nasser / Harvey Firestone / Phil Condit / Irv Hockaday / Irvine O. Hockaday / David Novak / John Wayne / /
Position
public company CEO / vice chairman / mass producer / powerful / determined chairman / Treasury Secretary / CEO / according / encouraging chairman / chairman and CEO / fellow director / driven / purposeful general manager / excited CEO / founder / engineer / search adviser / expert and board leader / author / candidate for CEO / CEO / indefatigable manager / executive / expert and board leader / and a powerful / determined chairman / CEO recruiter / determined chairman / president and co-COO / board member / candidate in Mulally / lead director / great CEO / manager / co-author / powerful / determined chairman / William Clay Ford Jr / auto industry journalist / CEO-ready leader / skilled surgeon / leader / chairman / fictional sheriff / director / leader of their Americas group / fabled leader / former chairman / CEO / highestprofile business / chairman and former CEO / co-founder / /
Product
skepticism / Boeing 747 / Aspen / Mustang / Thunderbird / Ford GT40 / /
CEO Recruitment How the Ford board recruited Alan Mulally This was a textbook case of world-class collaboration by seasoned directors, a passionate governance expert and board leader, and a powerful, determined chairman