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Southwest Airlines: Flying Low

Gary KellySouthwest AirlinesJET JOCKEYTITLE: Vice chairman of the board and CEO TENURE: 8 months on current job; 19 years at companyEDUCATION: B.B.A. in accounting from the University of Texas at

Mark Cuban: Managing By E-Mail

Harry Stonecipher could learn a thing or two from Mark Cuban, the billionaire serial entrepreneur. Stonecipher was forced out as chief executive of Boeing when his romance with another executive

Verity: Finding a Foothold

What if Alan Greenspan wanted to quickly find an economic statistic buried somewhere deep within gigabytes of Web pages, Microsoft Word files and other documents stored on the Federal Reserve’s

Tune Up Your Searches

Searching for information can be a waste of time. A lot of time. In fact, some employees spend 15% to 30% of their workday searching for information in corporate documents

Charging for Services, a la Carte

Welcome to the end of information technology as overhead.Your CEO wants your department to make a profit—or at least recover all its costs. Now you have to start billing other

Primer: Business Service Management

What is it? Software that can correlate the performance and availability of your company’s information systems with its business goals. Such business service management products can immediately notify business managers

World Food Programme: Wave of Support

On Dec. 26, 2004, Finbarr Curran, chief information officer for the United Nations’ World Food Programme, was enjoying a relaxing holiday at his home in Rome. For the Irishman and

FBI: Cold Case Files

FBI Director Robert Mueller sat in the witness chair in front of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Capitol Hill—head bowed, hands folded on the table in front of him. He’d

CSX Corp: Track Changes

Keith Triplett was clearly agitated. In his 26th year on the job, the dispatcher for freight train operator CSX Corp. was worked up about losing one-third of the capacity at

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