Article posted: 11/1/2012 1:20 PM

Ford’s Mark Fields promoted, could become CEO

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Longtime Ford executive Mark Fields, right, Ford president of the Americas, was named chief operating officer of the company Thursday, putting him in line to replace CEO Alan Mulally, left, as soon as 2015.

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Ford's leaders have watched Mark Fields, a brash Harvard MBA, turn the company's North American business into a profit machine. Now the CEO job is his to lose.