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...government. "I'm not kidding," he said, tactfully adding that it might be another management-consulting firm such as Bain (where Romney worked for years and where he got rich) or the Boston Consulting Group. Or he just might call on Jack Welch, who retired years back as CEO of General Electric but has yet to be replaced in the Lee Iacocca Chair as America's semiofficial Business...
...says Richard Aboulafia, an industry analyst at the Teal Group, an aviation-consulting firm based in Fairfax, Va. "And it's not transparent. Maybe they're not as efficient as they claim. There is a certain science-fiction quality to their numbers." Geoff Dixon, CEO of Australia's Qantas, says, "Singapore Airlines is a government-owned and -backed carrier that does not have to play by the same rules as other airlines." Cheong dismisses the complaint, saying, "That accusation was raised by people with obvious self-interest. Our reputation is such that people know that we don't need...
...Progress Energy has a commercial trial under way in North Carolina with Internet service provider EarthLink as its partner. Idacomm, a subsidiary of Idacorp (which also owns Idaho Power), hopes to be live in Boise and a few other markets by next spring. "The BPL market," Idacomm president and CEO Chris Britton says, "is going...
...only moments before takeoff when Tony Fernandes, CEO of high-flying budget airline AirAsia, rushes onto a plane destined for the Malaysian resort town of Kota Kinabalu. But there's no plum seat waiting for him. Even top managers at no-frills airlines don't get any frills. Fernandes treks through the crowded plane searching for an empty chair, ending up in one of the last rows. When flight attendants appear with a cart of sodas and instant noodles for sale, he plunks down 80¢ for a can of Milo chocolate drink. Fernandes then spends much of the two-hour...
...Partners, an investment company based in Phoenix, Ariz., that owns 24% of Tiger. But for all those grandiose dreams, executives believe that not all the budget carriers can survive. "There is going to have to be a consolidation or shake-out," warns Tiger's chairman, William Franke, a former CEO of America West...