Financial/Insurance Meetings

Union workers at hotels in San Francisco and Chicago voted in late October to authorize strikes against hotels in those cities, setting the stage for work stoppages should contract negotiations stall...

Meet it with incentive conferences that motivate and retain newcomers.

It became known as the “AIG effect.” ...

On a chilly Friday last March, after a long day of medical appointments, my late husband and I checked into The Ritz-Carlton, Boston Common, for an overnight splurge. We thought that even a short getaway at a great hotel would allow us to escape...

Here’s the latest industry effort to spread the word about the importance of meetings.

As the U.S. Treasury worked on its guidelines for corporate policies on “luxury expenditures,” the meetings industry, under the auspices of the U.S. Travel Association, scrambled to create an actual board policy that it hoped the U.S. Treasury...

The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. sticks to its promise of outstanding service — and weathers the worst downturn in decades...

U.S. Treasury TARP Standards for Compensation and Corporate Governance Go to www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg165.htm for the press release summarizing the standards; click the link embedded in the release to read all 123 pages of the document. ...

Message from the C-Suite: Incentives Work!