{"id":3603,"date":"2009-11-02T16:23:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T20:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3603"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T19:49:44","slug":"fords-surprise-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/02\/fords-surprise-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford&#8217;s surprise profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\">In a turnaround story for a troubled industry, Ford Motor Company posted a surprising 3rd quarter <a title=\"profit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/03\/business\/03auto.html?hp\" target=\"_blank\">profit <\/a>of nearly $1 billion, though it has still lost some $1.3 billion for the year.\u00a0 School of Management Dean <a title=\"Lou Lataif\" href=\"http:\/\/management.bu.edu\/about\/dean\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lou Lataif<\/a>, a former top\u00a0Ford executive, says adversity has built character in the current generation of Ford&#8217;s leaders.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3632\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/ford-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"ford\" width=\"252\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/ford-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/ford.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 252px) 100vw, 252px\" \/>&#8220;While Ford still has an enormous debt burden which must be paid down, the management team is proving that predictions of the demise of \u2018Detroit\u2019 and of American manufacturing are at least premature if not dead wrong.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Lou Lataif, 617-353-2668, <a href=\"mailto:lelataif@bu.edu\">lelataif@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a turnaround story for a troubled industry, Ford Motor Company posted a surprising 3rd quarter profit of nearly $1 billion, though it has still lost some $1.3 billion for the year.\u00a0 School of Management Dean Lou Lataif, a former top\u00a0Ford executive, says adversity has built character in the current generation of Ford&#8217;s leaders. &#8220;While [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491,1],"tags":[1950,929,1951],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3603"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8381,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3603\/revisions\/8381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}