• Boeing's biggest blunder? Financial engineering.

  • Dec 3 2024
  • Length: 11 mins
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Boeing's biggest blunder? Financial engineering.

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  • Boeing continues to struggle. Safety concerns, a door blowing off mid-flight, a labor strike, impending layoffs ... and that's just the past year.

    What's gone wrong at Boeing? For many observers, the mistake was shifting focus from engineering to financial engineering.

    Today on the show we explain what financial engineering is and why this cultural change at Boeing may have led to the company's current problems.

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