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RECALLS: Honda CEO sets an impressive standard
Automotive & Mobility

RECALLS: Honda CEO sets an impressive standard

Honda's October 2014 executive pay-cut response to the Takata airbag recall — CEO Takanobu Ito's 20% reduction, Chairman Ike and eleven directors at 10% — produced one of the most-cited automotive crisis communications case studies. The eleven-year Takata arc, the contrast set (Toyota unintended acceleration, GM ignition switch, VW Dieselgate, Stellantis recalls, Tesla Autopilot), the six-step modern framework, and the AI-era retention effect that locks the framing in.

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