Donald Petersen, Ford chairman and CEO from 1985 to 1990, worked at Ford for over four decades and is rightly seen as a ...

Donald Petersen, the Ford Motor Co. chief executive officer who helped pull the automaker out of a financial crisis in the ...

Petersen, a mechanical engineer and native of Pipestone, Minnesota, began at Ford in 1949 and left in 1990. He spent his last ...

Petersen, a mechanical engineer with a zeal for quality, steered the company during some of its most prosperous years and was ...

Donald Petersen, Ford Motor Co. CEO, during the 1980s has died at 97. Initially depicted as an innovative leader, his legacy ...

Donald E. Petersen, the former Ford Motor Co. CEO whose visionary leadership won praise for saving the company in the 1980s, died Wednesday at his home in Bloomfield Hills at age 97, according to ...

Such was the challenge facing Donald E. Petersen as he rose to become president of Ford Motor in 1980 and chief executive ...

Former Ford chairman and CEO Donald E. Petersen dedicated more than 40 years to the automaker, and his career is being remembered with high praise as the industry hears the news that he has died ...

In the 1970s and early 1980s, a common quip was that the letters spelling Ford, the automotive brand, stood for “fix or repair daily.” ...