Toxic cleanup job awaits Hackett at Ford

June 05, 2017 05:00 AM

DETROIT — Before Ford Motor Co.'s new "change agent" CEO Jim Hackett can move the company forward, he must clean up a toxic corporate culture that had permeated the top of the Glass House until his appointment.

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