what sort of degree do i need to become chief for a company like boein
if i am studying aerospace engineering
do i need some experience as well beside a degree??
i know i should have mba as well
but what else do i need to become ceo??
can you give me some
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Aerospace engineering BS and MS as well as an Executive MBA are good steps, but experience will be key. Not just on the technical side, but you’ll need executive experience. Running other, smaller companies will be necessary stepping stones for you in the journey. Also it’ll take a little bit of luck.
First, a note. The likelihood of any particular young person becoming the CEO of Boeing, or a similar company, is extremely small: a bit less likely than becoming a starting player for an NBA team.
In general: to be considered to be CEO of a company the size of Boeing, one would need 20 to 30 years of experience, much of it as a high-ranking executive.
Traditionally, a company often picked a CEO with a long career at that company, and experience and education related to its business. The more modern tendency is for a company to hire on the basis of pure management experience and expertise, and a CEO is often hired from another company, where he or she might have been CEO or a high-ranking executive. In the case of Boeing, this would make an engineering background less important than it might have been at one time.
Capsule bios of recent Boeing CEOs (current first, then in reverse chronological order):
Jim McNerney
BA, Yale; MBA Harvard
Proctor & Gamble for 3 years
McKinsey (consulting) for 4 years
GE for 19 years
3M (CEO) for 4 years
Hired directly as CEO of Boeing
Harry Stonecipher
BS in Physics, Tennessee Tech
GE for 27 years (VP after 19 yrs, division head after 5 more)
Sundstrand for 7 years (CEO for 5)
Hired directly as CEO of McDonnell Douglas
Came to Boeing in merger, became CEO several years later
Phil Condit
BEng, Berkeley; MEng, Princeton
Boeing for 32 years, starting as an engineer
Frank Shrontz
LLB, Idaho; MBA, Harvard
Boeing for 24 years (28, less 4 years in the DoD during the Nixon/Ford years)
Good education, better experience, best luck. best of luck.