Jean-Dominique Senard, the departing CEO of Michelin and incoming chair of Renault and of the Renault–Nissan–Mitsubishi alliance, argues that the prevailing concept of corporate purpose needs an update.
Renault stole a march with the first Scenic. You’d have thought that the rest of the car industry would have taken a bit more notice when, in 1991, the French brand showed up with the Safety Concept Embodied in a New Innovative Car (Scenic – get it?), but it didn’t. And when the production version, designed by a team under Anne Asensio, broke cover in 1996, she might as well have walked around with a pair of dressmaker’s scissors cutting the belts of all the rivals, such was their state of trous
NEW YORK — Carlos Ghosn, the former rock star businessman who fell from grace and fled authorities smuggled in a music instrument box, is getting what his dramatic story deserves