357. Can an Industrial Giant Become a Tech Darling?

Published: Nov. 8, 2018, 4 a.m.

The Ford Motor Company is ditching its legacy sedans, doubling down on trucks, and trying to steer its stock price out of a long skid. But C.E.O. Jim Hackett has even bigger plans: to turn a century-old automaker into the nucleus of a \u201ctransportation operating system.\u201d Is Hackett just whistling past the graveyard, or does he see what others can\u2019t?