Q&A: Peter Robison
Why did you choose to write this book? How did you get involved in researching it?
PETER ROBISON: I was the beat reporter for Bloomberg News covering Boeing 1998 to 2002, a consequential period in the company’s history. It had just purchased McDonnell Douglas, a defense contractor and failed commercial-jet builder that had always pushed more aggressively than Boeing for shareholder returns. The McDonnell Douglas executives took on powerful roles at the combined company, and people from Boeing considered it a reverse takeover.
This culminated in a 40-day engineers’ strike in 2000,
