* All Meetings Success Story--AllMeetings (www.allmeetings.com) has experienced more than 100 percent monthly growth since its launch in May 1999, which company officials attribute to its cost-calculating site selection service. The site uses a...
Over the past decade, western ski resorts have remade themselves into year-round destinations. And it should be no surprise that Salt Lake City and its nearby ski resorts are preparing around the clock for the 2002 Winter Olympics. Roughly 1,500...
Monumental Life Insurance Company has weathered many storms during its 142-year history, but none was more formidable than the Baltimore, Md.-based company's June 1997 acquisition of Providian Agency Group, a company three times its size...
Who better to talk about balance between work and family than someone who lives it? In January, at MPI's Professional Education Conference (PEC) at Nashville's Opryland Hotel, Chairman Ed Simeone, CMP, was joined onstage during the opening session...
Pitched as the only online meeting planning tool that is cost-focused, AllMeetings.com has experienced more than 100 percent growth each month since its launch in May 1999, according Brian Ashton, vice president of the Henderson, Nev.-based...
When it comes to in-house training, the computer age has arrived. According to a recent survey by Training magazine, 95 percent of U.S. companies trained their employees in the use of computer applications in 1999. Other widely taught training...
Even if you don't believe that "business is combat," a stage full of fighter pilots will convince you that their tools can teach your employees to work better--and, more important, can make them want to. "Every company in America wants to find a...
CHANGING FACES Jamie Carrow has been named director of sales and marketing of the Hyatt Newporter in Newport Beach, Calif. Carrow will be responsible for the overall management and operations of the resort's sales division. Prior to this position...
In addition to a climate that welcomes outdoor events year-round, Southern California has all the sets, venues, costumes, and actors needed to serve up even the largest creative theme events for insurance groups. In the land of the movies and the...
