Jim Hackett is plotting a course for Ford Motor built around the ideas that trucks are what Ford does best, and trucks are what consumers want most. And if fuel prices soar, the CEO will have a new range of hybrids as a backup.
The new head of global human resources will serve a critical role at an organization that’s trying to balance its industrial heft and heritage with a Silicon Valley-style agility.
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft left the Texas capital to protest what they considered to be too-stringent rules. Now they’re back, but tension remains.
Britta Seeger, Mercedes-Benz’s global sales chief, says dealers are cool with the subscription service it is launching in Germany and plans to bring it to the U.S.