Akio Toyoda

IN CRISIS MODE
March 19Why all the crisis talk at Toyota? Akio Toyoda and his team seem to like it that way.

Toyota reinvents halo with Supra coupe
March 6The Supra is back, and it's more than a halo car for Toyota. It's a statement of intent.
Toyota names most diverse board yet
March 5To broaden the view of his board, Akio Toyoda has installed Toyota's first female director and appointed a British Paralympic medalist.

Toyota shuffle creates diverse board; Hogan retires
March 2President Akio Toyoda has shuffled his company's board, installing the first female director and appointing a British Paralympic medalist. Also, former GM executive Mark Hogan will retire.

Toyota bids farewell to Tatsuro Toyoda
March 3Japan's business aristocracy attended the recent memorial service for the late Toyota president Tatsuro Toyoda, including diplomats, prime ministers, suppliers, dealers and labor leaders.

Toyota's new execs see a crisis
Feb. 18Toyota's latest batch of newly promoted executives injects new diversity of thought, but all are decidedly single-minded in warning that Japan's biggest automaker is beset by industry upheaval.

Toyota's way changed the world's factories; now the retool begins
Feb. 5Over decades, Toyota built a corporate culture that was the envy of the manufacturing world. Now the industry's most-emulated company is overhauling the way it brings its vaunted production system to every corner of the business.

Former Toyota President Tatsuro Toyoda dies at 88
Jan. 6Tatsuro Toyoda, the second son of Toyota Motor Corp.'s founder and whose short tenure as the company president in the 1990s was marked by health issues, has died at 88.

Toyota's slow-and-steady approach won't take it to first place in EVs
Dec. 31, 2017While Toyota has been satisfied to manage the evolution of Hybrid Synergy Drive over two decades, competitors such as General Motors, Tesla, BMW, Volkswagen and Renault-Nissan have been busy driving the next revolution in transportation.

Toyota shake-up: There's no time to lose
Dec. 4, 2017The appointment of computer guru Gill Pratt to a new "fellow" position at the top of Toyota underscores Akio Toyoda's urgency to remake the company.

Toyota sounds 'now or never' alarm with management shuffle
Nov. 28, 2017Toyota faces a “now or never” competition for survival and is shuffling management to tackle the challenge, President Akio Toyoda says.

A long view as Toyota confronts change
Nov. 13, 2017Akio Toyoda is keeping his eyes on the future, the far, far future, as the Toyota Motor Corp. president pilots his company through a rapidly changing automotive landscape. The biggest risk, he says, is thinking 2050 is too far away and doing nothing.