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• Naverus Sponsors Second Annual Performance-Based Navigation Summit

  - 2008-09-19

  Event to Highlight Real-World Applications of PBN SEATTLE -- Naverus, the leading developer of RNP Required Navigation Performance, announced today its sponsorship of the PBN Summit 2008 on November 10th and 11th at the Bell Harbor Conference Center in Seattle. The PBN Summit offers a unique opportunity for key...

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• Southwest Airlines Cargo a Quest for Quality Award Winner

  - 2008-08-19

  FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-19 August 2008-Southwest Airlines Cargo a Quest for Quality Award WinnerC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Southwest Airlines Cargo took home the gold as Logistics Management ranked the airline number one among all air carrier Quest for Quality award winners. Southwest Airlines earned the highest scores...

  Tags: cargo, logistics, Manufacturing, performance, Quality, Southwest Airlines Co.

• Envision Announces 2008 Annual Customer Forum

  - 2008-05-14

  International Customer Forum to Include Sessions from Industry Trendsetters Costco Wholesale, Southwest Airlines, Tiffany & Co., Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska and More SEATTLE -- Envision Telephony, Inc., a leading global provider of software solutions for the contact center and the enterprise, announced today that the company's annual...

  Tags: Blue Cross Blue Shield, Costco Wholesale Corp., Envision Telephony Inc., Nebraska, performance, SOFTWARE, Southwest Airlines Co., Tiffany & Co. Inc.

• On Teaching And Learning About Spirituality In The Workplace At The MBA Level

  - 2008-01-01

  In the summer of 2005, two LA-based professors specializing in Organizational Leadership, facilitated an MBA course titled "Spirituality in the Workplace," with the intention to better prepare their students in the changing reality of the modern workplace. In wake of recent corporate scandals and terrorist events in the international...

  Tags: environment, IKEA, MBA, performance, Southwest Airlines Co., worker, workplace

• Investigating the impact of organizational excellence and leadership on business performance: an exploratory study of Turkish firms

  - 2008-01-01

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Introduction One of the realities of the current global marketplace is that consumers expect more, have more choices, and are less brand-loyal (Best, 2004). Yesterday's invincible companies with their market domination and leadership, such as GM, Sears, AT&T, and IBM to name few, have had to...

  Tags: Churchill, Company, Hamel, Hypotheses, Innovation, innovation, Leadership, M., performance, positioning, ROI, sales, Southwest Airlines Co., Strategy, vision, Wiley

• First in Flight

  - 2007-08-01

  STEVE PLAYER INTERVIEWS SOUTHWEST'S CFO, LAURA WRIGHTAS DISCOVERED THROUGH APPRENTICE PROGRAMS CENTURIES AGO, you can learn a great deal by studying successful leaders. I have greatly valued my ongoing dialogue during the past two years with the planning department at Southwest Airlines, which has provided an instructive window on how...

  Tags: FINANCE, financial, MARKETING, performance, SOFTWARE, Southwest Airlines Co., Strategy

• Financial Performance of Low-Cost and Full-Service Airlines in Times of Crisis, The

  - 2005-03-01

  AbstractThis paper examines the stock and accounting performance of three major airlines in the United States in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. September 11 (9/11) resulted in dramatic changes in the airline industry and had significant implications for the economic gains and future prospects of most...

  Tags: accounting, AirTran, analysis, carrier, Continental Airlines Inc., FINANCE, financial, Investment, Northwest Airlines Corp., performance, Southwest Airlines Co., stock

• A TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY BASED STRUCTURE FOR TACTICAL CLUSTER ASSESSMENT: EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION IN THE AIRLINE INDUSTRY

  - 2005-01-01

  ABSTRACT In this paper we analyze and assess the efficiency of the United States (U.S.) airline industry through the total factor productivity TFP method. While airlines use various resources to produce a heterogeneous group of outputs, this article focuses on certain fundamental outputs as final products of selected airlines. The...

  Tags: financial, performance, productivity, Southwest Airlines Co., United Airlines

• Keynote Performance Award Winners for E-Commerce, Airline, Hotel, Travel Agency and Government Web Sites Announced at Keynote Global Internet Performance Conference

  - 2004-10-25

  NEW YORK -- Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN): --CheapTickets, Crowne Plaza, Eddie Bauer, Expedia, Food & Drug Administration, IRS, Northwest Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Wyndham Hotels Win Awards for Web Site Speed and Reliability --Awards Based on Keynote's Industry Leading E-Commerce, Airline, Hotel, Travel Agency and Government Web Transaction Indices...

  Tags: agency, e-business, E-business/E-commerce, INTERNET, Keynote Systems Inc., MARKETING, performance, Southwest Airlines Co., Web

• Southwest Airlines Receives ''Performance Through People'' Award September 29, 2004 at Chicago's McCormick Center

  - 2004-09-29

  CHICAGO -- Presented by the Forum for People Performance Management and Measurement

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