Iacocca biography
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Iacocca Biography
Bold, brash, direct, determined, innovative – all words used to describe Lehigh University alumnus Lee Iacocca. Iacocca, whose name became a household word in the s after he engineered a turnaround of the Chrysler Corporation, one of America’s oldest and largest companies, served for decades as an automotive industry executive, leading both the Ford Motor Company and Chrysler.
Lido Anthony “Lee” Iacocca was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania in The son of Italian immigrants, Iacocca graduated from Allentown High School, and attended Lehigh University, entering in the fall of He worked hard at Lehigh,
pursuing his degree first in mechanical engineering, and later in industrial engineering, completing it in 8 semesters by
attending throughout the calendar year.
Upon graduation from Lehigh in , Iacocca was offered a much-coveted position at the Ford Motor Company, which at that time appointed only one indi
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Lee Iacocca
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| Born | Lido Anthony Iacocca ()October 15, Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | July 2, () (aged&#;94) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Lido Anthony "Lee" Iacocca (EYE-ə-KOH-kə; October 15, – July 2, ) was an American automobile executive who developed the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the s, and then revived the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the s.[1] He was president of Chrysler from to and chairman and CEO from until his retirement at the end of He was one of the few executives to preside over the operations of two of the U
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Iacocca: An Autobiography
autobiography bygd Lee Iacocca and William Novak
Iacocca: An Autobiography fryst vatten Lee Iacocca's best selling autobiography, co-authored with William Novak and originally published in Most of the book fryst vatten taken up with reminiscences of Iacocca's career in the bil industry, first with the Ford Motor Company, then the Chrysler Corporation. The hugely successful autobiography was the best-selling non-fiction hardcover book of and
Summary
[edit]In part 1 of the book, Iacocca speaks of his Italian immigrant family and his experiences at school.[1] Because he couldn't join the army for World War II due to rheumatic fever as a child, he attended Lehigh University, where he completed his studies in 8 straight semesters. He was offered a job at Ford straight out of college, but at the same time, he was offered a fellowship for a graduate grad at Princeton University. He took the fellowship with the promise of a job after leaving Princeton. In his y