Alan Mulally
In 2013, Alan Mulally received the Benjamin Franklin Medal, one of several formal honors that marked his career across engineering and executive leadership.
Born on August 4, 1945, in Oakland, Mulally is a United States citizen whose education took him through several institutions. He attended Lawrence High School before going on to the University of Kansas. He subsequently studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and completed the Sloan Fellows Program, building a foundation in both technical and managerial disciplines.
Over the course of his career, Mulally held occupations as an engineer, a military flight engineer, a businessperson, and a chief executive officer. These roles spanned both technical and organizational work, moving across the engineering and business domains. His professional record also brought him recognition in aeronautical engineering specifically, as he received the J. C. Hunsaker Award in Aeronautical Engineering. The Daniel Guggenheim Medal is another award he received, adding to the list of formal distinctions conferred upon him during his career.
The three awards Mulally received — the Daniel Guggenheim Medal, the J. C. Hunsaker Award in Aeronautical Engineering, and the Benjamin Franklin Medal — represent the concrete record of recognition extended to him by multiple institutions. Taken together, these honors reflect a professional life that moved between the engineering and executive dimensions of his fields, and they stand as the documented acknowledgment of his work as an engineer and chief executive officer.
Quotes by Alan Mulally
We've always loved the automobile, and we all love Henry Ford's original vision to open the highways to all mankind, the freedom and movement.
I had a great life at Boeing. I'd been there for 37 years and contributed to all the Boeing airplanes as a designer: the 707, 727, 37, 47, 57, 67 and 'triple 7' and the 87.
There is no reason that America can't compete in a global economy, and I love being one small proof point in that.
Ford is committed to building a sustainable future for the benefit of all Americans, and we believe Ford is on the right path to achieve this vision.
There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
My favorite expression is a tag line or an advertising and marketing campaign that Ford ran a number of years ago. They ran it for almost 12 years, and it was, 'Have you driven a Ford lately?'
Never make a joke or try for humor at someone else's expense. In a high-stakes environment, everyone needs to feel safe.
As we develop our energy policies in the United States to generate our energy clean, then I think we're going to really move to a world that all of us want, and that is a sustainable future.
