Boeing's decisions were ultimately not a matter of the dubious leaders or the MD acquisition. They were a matter of the preferences of the owners, which is to s

Boeing's decisions were ultimately not a matter of the dubious leaders or the MD acquisition. They were a matter of the preferences of the owners, which is to say they expressed the preferences of Wall Street investors and the preferences are "provide a steady stream of revenues by cutting costs and gutting the company if necessary (subcontract nearly everything out, make the workforce disposable, etc)". You can see this in the decision of California's PG&E to give the money needed to maintain lines to their shareholder as a dividend. Overall, the process dispossesses the employees and mortgages the future of the enterprise. To change this, you'd have to have a different source of funding for these enterprises at the least.