Former CEO of Boeing to Speak on 'Working Together'

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Philip Condit

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Philip Condit, former chairman and chief executive officer of Boeing, will speak on the design and manufacture of the Boeing 777 at 8:35 a.m., on Wednesday, April 2 in room 2282 of the Bell Engineering Center.

Condit will discuss the concept of “Working Together.” He led the team that launched the wide-body Boeing 777 airplane, and he pioneered management concepts that integrated design/build teams of customers, suppliers and employees to design and produce the 21st-century jet. The 777 “Working Together” team has received numerous aeronautical awards, including the prestigious Collier Award.

Elected president and member of the board of directors of Boeing in 1992, Condit added the title of chief executive officer in 1996. In 1997, he was elected chairman. He was the seventh chairman since the company was founded in 1916.

Condit resigned from his position as chairman and chief executive officer of The Boeing Company on Dec. 1, 2003, and retired from the company in March 2004.

Under his leadership, several mergers and acquisitions transformed the company into a broad-based, global enterprise. Condit is the author of several published papers on commercial aircraft technology and holds a patent, awarded in 1965, for the design of a flexible wing called the sailwing.

Condit received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963; a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University in 1965; a master’s in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975; and, in 1997, a doctorate in engineering from Science University of Tokyo, where he was the first Westerner to earn such a degree.