Ford Motor Company

A century ago, the Ford Motor founder shocked the world of business by doubling wages to $5 a day. No altruist, he was playing a long game—one today’s short-sighted CEOs can’t fathom.

He was a magnificent pioneer who made cars affordable and paid his workers well. But he also became an unsettling, terrible person. Richard Snow, the author of the new biography I Invented the Modern Age: The Rise of Henry Ford, on why the auto mogul spiraled so far down.

Time Inc.'s vaunted outsider CEO Jack Griffin lasted five months before being fired. Nick Summers assesses how other key turnaround leaders are faring, from Nokia's Stephen Elop to United's Jeffrey Smisek.

Cutting-edge automobiles are coming to a showroom near you. VIEW OUR GALLERY of the most innovative cars from next week's New York Auto Show, all of which will be available in the next year.

With two huge recalls and new questions about brake failure on the Prius, Toyota's future as the world's No. 1 automaker is in doubt. But can the Big Three capitalize on the crisis? Paul Eisenstein reports.

Alan Mulally, CEO of the only American automaker not driving in reverse, talks to Allan Dodds Frank about when his company will turn a profit, the new Ford line, and driving to Washington.

Why is the car maker’s profit way up while Boeing is caught in a quagmire with its new 787? A genius named Alan Mulally.