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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Ceiling Unlimited
Carl Chen (24th OPM) has come a long way. The Long Beach, California, Press-Telegram (September 13, 1999) reported that when Chen was four years old, his family fled mainland China for Taiwan. In 1968, he won a fellowship to West Virginia University to study View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
is the United Arab Emirates, which formally introduced its UAE Space Agency on May 25, 2015, during the fifth Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi. The agency tapped Khaled Al Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011), an View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
2005, McNerney assumed his current role at Chicago-based Boeing. With just over $68 billion in annual revenues and more than 157,000 employees, Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company, manufacturing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Clean Slate
airlines’ transition to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), for example, and incentivizing greener options for airport transport, whether that’s an Uber, HOV, or a Logan Express bus. “We think about our... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
executives from the aerospace and defense industries, Fortune 500 presidents, general managers in the Boston area, and heads of nonbusiness organizations about their... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living (number 10 in the nation), and its position as a central View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
and its $300,000 in cash — that proved of little interest to the bridge, given the situation. Then came the order to abandon ship. A destroyer had maneuvered alongside to evacuate our wounded first, and then... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
Flying has it all — science, freedom, beauty, and adventure,” says Robert A. Hamilton (MBA 1985), by way of quoting Charles Lindbergh. “I wholeheartedly agree.” These days, Hamilton is getting huge doses of those four elements at Seattle... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
microorganisms use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to photosynthesize sugar, proteins, and fat—the latter in the form of an oil that can replace fossil fuels in applications where batteries either can’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Flying High
Jim McNerney (MBA ’75) departed GE in 2000 to become, at 3M, a chief executive for the first time. Named chairman, president, and CEO of The Boeing Company in July, McNerney is the aerospace giant’s third... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Ready for Departure
As millions of passengers return to the skies for long-delayed plans, they’ll be returning to an airport that’s likely a little different. The lockdowns of 2020 hit aviation harder than almost any other industry. Airports, as a subsector,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
Disenchanted with the corporate world, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of operations for Australia’s Cobham Aviation Services and made a bold career View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
of all time” demonstrated an early penchant for competition. A peripatetic Army brat, Porter was an all-state football and baseball player in New Jersey before majoring in aerospace engineering at Princeton... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
David B. Price, Jr.: Aiming High
everything from electronics and sporting goods to food and drugs. Recently, with Goodrich focusing increasingly on the aerospace industry, Price oversaw the leveraged buyout of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
He handled lending for the airline and aerospace industry during deregulation and many reorganizations. “I learned about relationship banking, as opposed to now, where it’s all... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
to name just a few parts assembled at the company’s plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the plane’s original engines failed to meet expectations, necessitating a redesign and switch to a new supplier. Plagued by delays View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
members of the Class of 1989 who spent part of their summers training to be officers - and eventually aviators - in the U.S. Marine Corps. Their choices, however, were quite in keeping with family tradition:... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
“Before his talk, Professor Shih toured three Moog factories in the Buffalo area,” says Sherrill. Moog Inc., which is currently headed by CEO John Scannell (MBA 1999), is a leading aerospace manufacturer, producing critical components for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Courtesy Rick Sontag Courtesy Rick Sontag In 1994, Rick Sontag (MBA 1968) was the president of Unison Industries, an aviation component manufacturer he had grown from one Midwest factory into a 1,500-employee international business. He... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Robert F. Diromualdo
DiRomualdo spent four years in the Navy as an aviation reconnaissance officer during the Vietnam War before earning his MBA. He then worked for several firms, most notably Hickory Farms, the faltering specialty foods company that he... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner