Calhoun gives Boeing a fresh face, but not that fresh
It is almost 15 years since David Calhoun was first considered for the role of Boeing’s CE. He was running GE’s biggest division at the time, an infrastructure unit with sales of US$47b, and was up against another veteran of the Jack Welch-era in which GE’s status as a model for the rest of US industry was rarely questioned. A decade later, in the midst of the biggest crisis in the manufacturer’s 103-year history, the board decided that Calhoun’s time had come. The man he will replace as CE, Dennis Muilenburg, was not invited to participate in the Sunday evening call which sealed his fate. Several analysts attributed Muilenburg’s fumbled response when two of its 737 Max jets crashed within a few months of each other to the fact that the life-long Boeing employee was, first and foremost, an engineer. <br/>
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Calhoun gives Boeing a fresh face, but not that fresh
It is almost 15 years since David Calhoun was first considered for the role of Boeing’s CE. He was running GE’s biggest division at the time, an infrastructure unit with sales of US$47b, and was up against another veteran of the Jack Welch-era in which GE’s status as a model for the rest of US industry was rarely questioned. A decade later, in the midst of the biggest crisis in the manufacturer’s 103-year history, the board decided that Calhoun’s time had come. The man he will replace as CE, Dennis Muilenburg, was not invited to participate in the Sunday evening call which sealed his fate. Several analysts attributed Muilenburg’s fumbled response when two of its 737 Max jets crashed within a few months of each other to the fact that the life-long Boeing employee was, first and foremost, an engineer. <br/>
