Throughout his career, Carlos Ghosn portrayed himself as a singular figure, the driving force behind the creation of one of the world's largest automotive groups-and the only person capable of keeping it together. In recent years he was clearly in legacy mode, preparing the groundwork for a deal that would finally bring Nissan Motor Co. and RenaultSA together under a single corporate umbrella. Had he achieved his larger goal of incorporating rival Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV into that alliance, he would have created the world's biggest carmaker and been remembered as one of the handful of business visionaries-such as Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch, or Gordon Moore-whose careers helped reshape their industries. For the foreseeable future, however, he will be known above all as something very different: a fugitive.
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