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I see one. The current CEO is an accountant. While he went to Virginia Tech, it wasn't for engineering. The prior CEO was an engineer. CEO before that was an

I see one. The current CEO is an accountant. While he went to Virginia Tech, it wasn't for engineering. The prior CEO was an engineer. CEO before that was an MBA with an American Studies degree. He oversaw the MAX program.

JumpCrisscross 3y ago
Right, undergraduate physicist (Stonecipher), MBA (McNerney), engineer (Mullenberg) and now an accountant (Calhoun). Jack Welch, similarly, was a chemical engineer. (I was counting Stonecipher in my series, but you’re right.) Plenty have looked for the connection. It hasn’t surfaced. The problem is short-term incentives, a lack of a principled culture and corruption. We each like to think our in group is immune from those forces, and some certainly are more than others, but none in totality.