Mark Fields

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday announced it's investigating Tesla Inc's (NASDAQ: TSLA) full-self-driving Autopilot system following a series of collisions between Tesla vehicles and emergency vehicles. The investigation is rather...

The biggest thing to watch for when Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) reports earnings Monday is the company's outlook for deliveries in the second half of the year, former Ford Motor Co (NYSE: F) CEO Mark Fields said Monday on CNBC's "Squawk Box." It will be interesting to see how...

Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) deserves credit for building an "iconic brand" for electrification and investors have reason to be optimistic, former Ford (NYSE: F) president and CEO Mark Fields said Tuesday on CNBC. Tesla investors are in a position where they can "stand back" and...

Recently appointed CEO of Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) Jim Hackett hosted a meeting with analysts this week, which appears to have eased sell-side concerns following Mark Fields’ ousting. “Overall it did feel different,” said Deutsche Bank analyst Rod Lache in a note. Hackett was...

Sheryl Sandberg left her job as vice president of global sales and operations at Google (parent company, Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL)) to join Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) and serve as its chief operating officer in 2008. But perhaps more important, her job at Facebook provided the...

2017's first-half auto trend continued into May, as automakers reported lukewarm sales results. Truck and SUV sales offered a reason to cheer, while car sales continued southward. Incentives continued to pad up sales results, although inventory levels saw some improvement. For the first time since...

Deutsche Bank Securities analysts said they are cautiously optimistic about the implication of the management changes, including the CEO shakeup, the company announced earlier this week. Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) announced the ouster of CEO Mark Fields, replacing him with Jim Hackett, who...

An executive shuffle occurred at Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) as Jim Hackett, the former CEO of office furniture giant Steelcase Inc. (NYSE: SCS), was named CEO Monday. He will replace Mark Fields, who stepped down after overseeing a 40-percent plunge in the carmaker's stock price since taking over...

Jim Hackett, tapped to change the culture at the nation’s No. 2 automaker, brings a background in football and office furniture as the new CEO of Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F). Hackett, the former CEO of office furniture giant Steelcase Inc. (NYSE: SCS), was picked on Monday to replace Mark...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) CEO Mark Fields will be replaced as early as Monday by Jim Hackett, according to a report from Forbes and other media outlets. The unexpected management shakeup adds to a tumultuous year for mature automakers like Ford and General Motors Company(NYSE: GM), who, despite...

A group of more than two dozen CEOs have been tapped by President Donald Trump to create recommendations to grow the American manufacturing sector. The group convenes at a time when Trump is pledging to cut corporate taxes, slash regulations and also heavily tax companies that outsource...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) CEO Mark Fields was one of the select group of CEOs who visited President Trump at the White House to discuss Trump's vision of bringing manufacturing jobs back to America. After Ford released its fourth quarter results Thursday, Fields was interviewed by CNBC...

Sunday marked the start of the 2017 North American International Auto Show here in Detroit. Nick Donato, one of Benzinga's own news desk analysts, was on the floor for the first press day of the show. Donato stopped in on Tuesday's episode of the PreMarket Prep morning show to discuss the...

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on bringing so many "wins" to the American people. Even though he has yet to be sworn into the White House, CNBC's auto expert Phil LeBeau handed Trump his first major win in securing American jobs. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ford Motor Company (...