Title of the Case: The Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group Decision (2001)
I. CASE ABSTRACT
The Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group was the core business of the Boeing Company of Chicago, Illinois. Achieving its first success in the 1920s with the B-9 bomber, Boeing had a successful history of designing and producing large aircraft for both military and civilian markets. During the 1980s and 1990s the aircraft industry consolidated, with Boeing as the sole surviving American manufacturer of large aircrafts. Paradoxically, a European start-up consortium named Airbus Industrie competed for market share with Boeing. After 20 years, using state-of-the-art technology, Airbus had garnered a market share of nearly 50 percent.
Although Fortune magazine once printed that Boeing had a license "to print money," their position was weakening, particularly with Airbus' challenge to Boeing's sole ownership of the jumbo-jet market. The Boeing 747-700 had been the world's standard for......
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