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How Iacocca created the celebrity CEO, for better or worse

Commentary / World Jul 5, 2019

How Iacocca created the celebrity CEO, for better or worse

by Joe Nocera

Saving Chrysler was a big accomplishment, but Iacocca's legacy is more about making the covers of Time and Newsweek.

Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, who spoke out against Japanese carmakers, dies at 94

Business / Corporate Jul 3, 2019

Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca, who spoke out against Japanese carmakers, dies at 94

Lee Iacocca, the auto executive and master pitchman who put the Mustang in Ford Motor Co.'s lineup in the 1960s and became a corporate folk hero when he resurrected Chrysler 20 years later, has died in Bel Air, California. He was 94. Two former Chrysler ...

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