Management

The Short Report
How the Mighty Have Fallen: Key3Media Goes Bankrupt Los Angeles-based Key3Media Group, famous for shows like Comdex and JavaOne, and arguably the industry's leading technology trade show firm, filed for...
Tools of the Trade
Recognition Off the Wire Presenting cash awards or incentives during your next meeting or incentive trip? Western Union, a pioneer in sending money and messages, has introduced GiftGram incentives, an...
By Rachel Gecker
Another Myth Shatters
In spite of a down economy, Viasys Healthcare, a Conshohocken, PA-based provider of respiratory, neurological care and medical/surgical technologies, had what would be considered a successful year by...
By Vincent Alonzo
Be an MVP
Value, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. In business, those eyes belong to your customers. If you're perceived as adding value to their business, you're in good...
By tom mcdonald
Crash Landing?
At first, United Airlines' mid-December decision to file for bankruptcy protection didn't cause much concern among travel industry insiders. But when the ailing carrier made the disturbing admission...
Fed Up
Since November, new security measures have been in place at the nation's airports, with more than 40,000 federal workers now checking passengers and carry-on luggage. Although the Transportation...
It's Alive!
As a planner, you've surely endured hundreds, perhaps thousands, of mind-numbing Micro-soft PowerPoint presentations. After all, the phrase "Death by PowerPoint" wasn't born in the offices of...
By Michael Goldstein
Pulling Out the Stops
Sometimes a city sells itself. More often than not, though, it needs a hand from the people who know it, and everything it has to offer, best. So when the folks at convention and visitors bureaus set to...
The Buddy System
When you consider the flames, the smoke, the crowds, and the chaos, it's amazing so many people made it out of the World Trade Center alive on September 11. And it's nothing short of a miracle that...
By Michelle Gillan
Venus Rising
In 1989, Marian Holt McLain had been working in the number-two spot at the Seattle Convention and Visitors Bureau for 14 years. She'd progressed rapidly at the bureau, having started as a receptionist...
By Sara j. welch Michelle Gillan
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