1998 - Philip M. Condit : Chandler
Presented on: Friday, December 11, 1998
Philip M. Condit, CEO of the Boeing Company, presented the 1998 Chandler lecture. Condit said there are some crucial dimensions of business that would be improved if schools produced engineering graduates who understood economics and business graduates who understood technology. Condit spoke on Change and Challenge: Engineering the 21st Century. Under Condit’s leadership, the Boeing Company grew to be the world’s largest aerospace firm, with more than 230,000 employees and customers in 150 countries. In 1997, the company was the largest exporter in the United States. Condit earned a masters degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley; a master’s degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton and a masters degree in management from MIT. In 1997, he earned a doctorate in engineering from Science University of Tokyo, the first westerner to earn such a degree.
