Mark Fields

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) announced on Thursday it has hired Rajendra "Raj" Rao, who will leave his position as vice president of digital business model innovation at 3M Co (NYSE: MMM) where he led the company's Silicon Valley digital hub and Internet-of-Things (IoT) projects. Why exactly is...

Earlier this week, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) CEO Mark Fields announced at an investors conference at the company’s headquarters that all small-car production will move to Mexico over the next two to three years. This announcement comes just months after Ford revealed that it will build a $...

Mark Fields, CEO of Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F), said "dynamics get very funky" in talks with Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOGL)'s Google and Uber, according to Recode. Answering why the automaker didn't end up partnering with Google or Uber, Fields said, "What we want from...

Last Friday, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) CEO Mark Fields met with Wall Street analysts in New York to discuss Ford’s business and stock. Deutsche Bank analyst Rod Lache noted six bullish takeaways from Fields’ message: 1. Ford management still likes what is sees from the North...

Featured stories this weekend in Barron's ponder the prospects for a Detroit automaker, a semiconductor giant and the inventor of Bubble Wrap. This issue also has a look at a jet propulsion company and a pair of small cap banks. Other articles discuss the state of the U.S. auto industry, the top...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is convinced it will keep wowing investors heading into 2016. In an after-hours press release from the company, Ford gave several pieces of seemingly positive news: Expects to record a FY15 pre-tax profit, excluding special items, in the upper half of the...

On Tuesday, Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) CEO Mark Fields remarked that he expects to see driverless cars hit the roads within the next five years. However, the catch was that those cars won't be bearing a Ford emblem. Fields was referring to companies like Daimler AG (OTC: DDAIF) and Tesla Motors...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) recently reported its first-quarter results, which were below analysts' expectations. Following the result declaration, the company opened doors to its Silicon Valley research center to drive innovation in the automotive sector. Mark Fields, Ford Motor Company CEO...

Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) has been working to regain the ground it lost to other car manufacturers in the years following the financial crisis. Its new F-150 on Monday was crowned as the Truck of the Year at the Detroit's North American International Auto Show. Ford CEO Mark Fields was...

US nonfarm payrolls data, due out later on Friday, is expected to show that US employers added 210,000 jobs in April, a huge jump from March’s addition of just 192,000 jobs. If the data falls in line with expectations, it will mark the country’s fastest hiring pace in more than four months....

A changing of the guard at Ford (NYSE: F). On Thursday, the auto-maker announced Alan Mulally will step down as CEO on July 1, about six months earlier than anticipated – and will be replaced in that position by Ford COO Mark Fields. Mulally, a former top executive at Boeing (NYSE: BA), has...