Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...The union is pursuing a 40 per cent pay rise over three years as part of its contract negotiations, as well as seeking to have Boeing’s next new plane built in Washington state....
...If you want to integrate a team, you need to overcome your national interests and act in the interests of the whole.”...
...Boeing needs to be an engineering and manufacturing-driven company. The 1997 reverse merger with McDonnell Douglas put profit and cost controls above all else....
...A shift in culture after Boeing bought McDonnell Douglas in 1997 put financial returns ahead of engineering prowess....
...She joined McDonnell Douglas directly out of college in 1994 as a financial analyst, working on contracts for the T-45 trainer and the AV-8B Harrier, according to a 2007 story in the St Louis Business Journal...
...There are lots of signs that Boeing had become insular in this way, he says, going back to the merger with McDonnell Douglas in 1997....
...The case in point here is Boeing, which was allowed to purchase the only other US domestic producer of commercial aircraft, McDonnell Douglas, in 1997....
...That goes back to its unhappy 1996 merger with McDonnell Douglas, which broadened its scope from commercial aircraft into defence and unleashed the mantra of shareholder value....
...Any interest in Europe’s struggling equity markets is good news at the moment — and Douglas, the German beauty retailer that is planning an initial public offering, looks quite the pretty thing....
...Some long-term Boeing watchers worry that the company’s engineering-driven culture has still not fully recovered from a merger completed in 1997 with aerospace company McDonnell Douglas and the relocation...
...Lockheed, as it was known before its merger with Martin Marietta, withdrew from the commercial market in the 1980s, and a weakened McDonnell Douglas combined with Boeing in 1997....
...Boeing shares fell 8 per cent to $229 in pre-market trading as investors weighed the potential financial impact of the latest blow to the manufacturer. Here’s the latest on the investigation....
...Elliott is best-known as an activist investor that has taken on large corporations and governments....
...interest in the luxury travel sector, according to multiple people familiar with discussions....
...Smart reads Bankruptcy in Texas Houston has been a favoured city for cash-strapped companies and corporations with large legal liabilities to find shelter from creditors....
...Last week, the German beauty retailer Douglas, a company that’s backed by a private equity group, announced plans to list in Frankfurt....
...Interest-bearing deposits JPMorgan has been able to lend out or invest these deposits to earn a profit, reaping massive gains as the Fed lifted interest rates....
...Quittin’ early Private equity firms are more commonly handing over the keys to creditors in debt-for-equity swaps as interest rates rise, Bloomberg reports....
...Jain had been regarded internally and externally as a potential successor to Englander, although this has been disputed by some in the Millennium camp....
...Douglas Wigdor was among the first lawyers to invoke the statute....
...the 1948 Genocide Convention in Gaza UK: City of London Corporation’s London Government Dinner....
...Chart of the week The Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank delivered interest rate rises this week, but investors now expect rate setters in the US and the eurozone to move in opposite directions...
...Rising interest rates are a key reason for the slowdown, causing catalogue prices to fall and making it harder for investors to justify loading the assets with debt....
...ExxonMobil has reappointed Bart Cahir as the head of its shale business after his successor David Scott was charged with sexual assault earlier this month....
...In fact, he was the company’s finance director before rising to chairman in 1992....
International Edition