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Using an E-ticket makes it easier to getconfirmation of flight plans as well. There isoften a lag time of up to three weeks beforetickets arrive in the mail, but purchasing anE-ticket on-line gives one immediate confirmation.As soon as the order is confirmed, the customer istypically taken to a screen, which asks if thecustomer wants to print out the information. Allthe customer has to do is to click "yes," and aneatly-formatted, easy-to-read document will comeout of the printer. This sheet isn't necessary forconfirmation, but is a nice final touch for thosewho like tangible objects...
...many Americans who've never before set foot in Japan, Nagano may at first look like Atlanta with jet lag--an "industrial and technology-intensive city," as its brochures boast, larger than Newark, N.J., and lined along its broad boulevards with a cacophony of gas stations (called Apple), coffee shops (called Apple Grimm) and supermarkets (called Apple Land). There are seven Kentucky Fried Chicken parlors in Nagano, its literature attests, two Mister Donuts and a Denny...
C200 hopes that greater representation of women in HBS case studies will encourage more women to enroll in business schools. Currently, business schools lag far behind other types of professional schools in gender equality...
...compelled the Postal Service (fiscal 1997 revenues: $58.3 billion) to get market religion are threatening to bury it. Electronic mail is zapping first-class deliveries, the system's most profitable service, and could replace 25% of "snail mail" by 2000. At the same time, post office technology continues to lag far behind that of document and parcel movers like Federal Express and United Parcel Service, which can electronically track items through every stage of their journey. UPS alone delivers more than 80% of all packages shipped...
...China, there's a lag in research, they're more interested in importing technology than doing the research. It's much more profitable in the long-run and much easier to do," he says...