Forecasting? Not Boeing CEO’s Forte

By his own admission, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Scott Carson is a “lousy forecaster.” After Boeing notched 1,002 commercial aircraft orders in 2005, he predicted demand would cool off. But Boeing ended up with 1,044 orders in 2006. Then last December, Carson dismissed talk of the run extending...

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