If Bill Ford is motivated, all he needs to do is pick up the phone.
Expansion in China, where Ford is way behind other automakers, is clearly on Bill Ford's agenda.
Bill Ford's willingness to seek help starkly shows the magnitude of the challenge facing Ford.
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The largest owner of Class B stock is Lynn Alandt, a cousin of Bill Ford Jr.
Before the battle: Mark Fields, Bill Ford's number two executive, is looking for a way forward.
While contemplating such issues, Bill Ford has plenty of immediate problems on his plate.
Named chairman in 1998, Bill Ford plays second fiddle to Jacques Nasser, the chief executive.
The deal also reflects the personal vision of Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr.
Named chairman in 1998, Bill Ford plays second fiddle to Jacques Nasser, the CEO.
And they will look at Bill Ford's speeches and The New York Times and scratch their heads.
If the market goes the way Bill Ford anticipates, he may have one less competitor to worry about.
Fields played a key role in ushering in this new internal culture, Mulally and Bill Ford have said.
In January Bill Ford unveiled a restructuring--his second in four years--to get Ford Motor back on track by 2008.
Bill Ford is preparing to announce another round of restructuring moves this fall.
FORBES: Bill Ford finds that fixing Ford is harder than he thought.
"Toyota and General Motors are now benchmarking the Rouge, which is exactly what Bill Ford wanted, " says Timothy J.
Bill Ford has been trying to straddle the fence for a while now.
Then there's another of Bill Ford's pet projects: the world's largest living roof.
Now that he's got a little breathing room, it's time for Bill Ford to decide where the company is headed.
The chairman before Bill Ford was Sir Alex (now Lord) Trotman, a Scot who spent his whole career with the firm.
In June Bill Ford summoned 20 company executives to Ford Field, the gleaming new home of his family's Detroit Lions football team.
FORBES: Bill Ford finds that fixing Ford is harder than he thought.
Bill Ford, by contrast, has seemed to take a more conservative approach.
Bill Ford is an avowed environmentalist, and yet his company is four years behind Toyota and Honda in bringing hybrid electric vehicles to showrooms.
Last year Bill Ford, a member of the founding family (which still owns 40% of the voting shares), ousted Jacques Nasser as chief executive.
Bill Ford favors a more measured approach than his company has used in other emerging markets, such as South America, where Ford invested heavily.
Ford Executive Chairman Bill Ford today said that Alan Mulally plans to continue to serve as Ford president and CEO through at least 2014.
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The company lost one CEO to a safety controversy over failed tires and then endured a disastrous run with Bill Ford at the helm.
FORBES: Ford Shares Should Pop On Word Alan Mulally Will Remain CEO Through 2014
But that's a guess, said Bill Ford, the company's executive chairman.
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Chairman Bill Ford Jr. has done it from behind a desk.
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Bill Ford, and likely many others, would call that an understatement.
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So far Bill Ford has cut 2, 700 white-collar jobs and eliminated 401(k) matching retirement funds in the U.S., as well as bonuses for high-level managers worldwide.
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