Byline: Daniel Rome Levine
Michael A. Crowe, 62, senior managing director, Mesirow Financial Investment Management, Chicago
Experience: 35 years
Assets under management: $1.45 billion
CRAIN'S: Any highlights from the earnings season so far?
Mr. Crowe: We own Boeing stock, and our reaction to its earnings was one of relief: that they can handle the (Dreamliner delays) as long as they are making this kind of money and are still producing other airplanes. The Dreamliner has been difficult to bring to fruition, but Boeing's order backlog is very impressive. They are trying to do almost a Herculean task . . . but we think they'll work their way through it.
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