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Boeing Executives Can’t Keep Getting Away With This

‘QUALITY ESCAPE’

The planemaker’s C-suite has repeatedly put profits over safety—putting lives at risk and destroying a once-legendary company’s reputation. Something needs to change.

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Dave Calhoun, the CEO of Boeing, a man groomed in the “screw the last dime out of a company” culture under Jack Welch at General Electric before taking over at Boeing, delivered a gem of management-speak in trying to explain why the company’s 737

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