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John Francis "Jack" Smith Jr. (born April 6, 1938) is an American businessman and executive who formerly served as COO in 1992, CEO from 1992 to 2000 and then chairman of the board of directors of General Motors from 1996 to 2000.
Leading a titanic transformation. General Motors’ former Chairman and CEO John F. “Jack” Smith Jr. engineered one of the largest turn arounds in corporate history, defying business insiders, academics and journalists, and he did so leveraging the company’s assets: its people power, economies of scale, plant rationalizations, a ...
Jan 1, 1996 · Retired General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger B. Smith often tells the story of how he persuaded another Smith, John F. (Jack) Jr., who assumed GM's top spot on Jan. 1, to join its financial...
Mar 21, 1993 · Affinity for the worker appears to be one reason why 54-year-old John F. Smith Jr., who goes by Jack, is winning admirers throughout the GM universe. Formality and isolation, once perks of high office at the world's biggest industrial company, are giving way to loosened-tie, rolled-sleeves teamwork.
Jul 9, 1995 · In November 1992, reeling from $7.5 billion worth of red ink, G.M.'s long-somnolent directors staged a coup and took the unusual step of splitting the car maker's top job in two. Mr. Smale, the...
So far, he has been able to guide General Motors (GM) around the obstacles, taking it from near financial ruin in 1992 to a more efficiently run operation in 2002. Before the widely publicized management and board shakeup at GM in 1992, few people outside the automobile industry had heard of Smith.
John Smith, a quiet, patient man, was director of the city's public health department, and co-owner with his two brothers of Smithfield Famous Ice Cream, a chain of eight parlors in the area. Jack Jr. learned the principles of business at the ice cream parlors, pitching in to make ice cream and helping to run the various stores.
