Management
Harvey Firestone started Firestone Company in the year 1900. In 1906, Henry Ford chose Firestone Tires as the original equipment for the first mass-produced automobiles in America. Harvey Firestone, Henry Ford, and Thomas Edison were all very good friends. Their children eventually married, and the current chairman of Ford Motor Company (William Clay Ford, Jr.) is the great-grandson of Harvey Firestone and Henry Ford. Bridgestone was a Japanese tire company that was founded in 1931. After Firestone experienced some financial difficulty in the 1980’s, the Bridgestone Corporation purchased them in 1988. In the year 1990, the two companies were then consolidated to form one company in the United States. The consolidation has remained up to this present day. We are all aware of the current issues of the deaths associated with tire failures, tire recalls, and the very public battle with Ford Motor Company. Following are some of the key issues that need to be addressed and recommendations to return this company to its previous days of success (see Appendix A for original organizational chart).There are several issues that would lend a company to consider the restructuring of their curren
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