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The person who set in the policies that killed Boeing was an engineer who worked at Boeing from start to end, so...
by p_l 2y ago
The person who set in the policies that killed Boeing was an engineer who worked at Boeing from start to end, so...
- sehansen 2y agoNo, the guy who killed Boeing was Jim McNerney, their CEO from 2005 to 2015. McNerney was the guy who started the 737 MAX program in 2011. He got an MBA from Harvard in 1975 and worked for GE from 1982 to 2001.
- mandevil 2y agoYou're talking about Dennis Muilenberg, who was the CEO during the 737 Max accidents and failed to properly investigate it (he was CEO from 2015-2019). But he came from the Boeing Defense side, and had no influence on the civil aviation side when it made the decisions that destroyed the 737 Max Program, which were made in 2010 when James McNerney was CEO. James McNerney is the guy with the Harvard MBA who spent two decades working for Jack "Company Killer" Welch at GE (he ran the airplane engine division), lost the succession battle, went to be CEO of 3M for a few years, then was CEO of Boeing from 2005-2015, and is the one I hold responsible for the real failures of the 737 Max program. Muilenberg was the one who got fired- and he definitely deserves the blame for the Ethiopian Airlines flight, they should definitely have investigate Lion Air faster and better- but it was McNerney who was responsible for most of the 737 Max program. The engines and wings issues were basically set in stone by the time that Muilenberg first became responsible for the program.
- p_l 2y agoI'm talking about Philip Condit, who triggered the extensive outsourcing plan for 787 program including ridiculous cost targets (which were followed under Stonecipher), and triggered the critical move from Seattle to Chicago. He also led the process to integrate McDonnell-Douglas, so gets at least some of the blame for how the merger happened.