Comment by bogomipz

The culture of company is much more than its CEO though. And it's the culture of Boeing that changed from an engineering culture to a profit-driven culture. This shift is pretty well-documented. It occurred with Boeing’s reverse takeover of McDonnell Douglas in the late 1990s. This new direction was in no small part the influence of McDonnell Douglas CEO Harry Stonecipher. The following are good reads on what exactly happened:

https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-invest...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/how-boeing...