Byline: John Rosenthal
When Diana Sands took over as Boeing's vice-president of investor relations in January, she figured she was being groomed for higher office. Her job, explaining the company's performance to institutional investors and securities analysts, is one of the most visible at Boeing, a company with few women in senior management.
Later she worried she might become a woman to watch for the wrong reasons. Just as Ms. Sands, 42, was settling in, production delays forced Chicago-based Boeing to postpone the rollout of its 787 Dreamliner for the second time in four months. Airlines with orders on file were asking for hundreds of millions of dollars in late ...