atleastoptimal
a year ago
Would it be even theoretically possible for a disruptive startup to enter the aircraft manufacturing industry in the US or is Boeing basically just a guaranteed monopoly forever until Airbus and some Chinese firm take over the market?
Eddy_Viscosity2
a year ago
> Boeing basically just a guaranteed monopoly
This.
It would be great if Boeing was dissolved and shareholders wiped out. The company is sold off to a new company that can attempt to rebuild it again with the very hard learned lesson that quality and engineering matter and that MBAs ruin everything and make you bankrupt if you give them too much power.
kasey_junk
a year ago
Dennis Muilenburg has no MBA, he has 2 aerospace degrees. Calhoun has an accounting degree but not an MBA.
zeusk
a year ago
The decline didn’t start with them. Just look at Intel and GE as well.
kasey_junk
a year ago
Philip Condit had a phd in engineering.
Harry Stonecipher had a physics degree.
James Mcnerney was the only ceo with an MBA, are we attributing all Boeings problem to him?