When will Boeing Co.’s 737 Max return to the skies? It’s anybody’s guess. The aerospace giant said that it was planning for an early fourth-quarter return for the jet, giving investors hope that it had turned the corner on the crisis that’s engulfed the best-selling plane following two fatal crashes. But in the earnings call, executives threw out an alternative ...

One of the toughest corporate strategies is managing a declining asset while investing in promising but nascent ones. It’s such a well-known difficulty that famous books have been written about it. This management balancing act might be even tougher in technology. If a company has a slow-growing or declining tech asset, often it simply dies or gets taken over by ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc clung to its full-year earnings outlook as a fare war and the grounding of Boeing Co’s 737 Max jetliner ate into first-quarter profit at Europe’s biggest discount airline. Margins on ticket sales are shrinking, with a glut of seats hurting prices in Germany and concerns around Brexit weighing on UK demand, Ryanair said. At the same ...