"Airlines are the vehicle, for the most part, for delivering guests and business travelers to our doors and if people are not flying, they are not staying in our hotels," said Jonathan Tisch, chairman and chief executive officer of Loew's Hotels and chairman of the Travel Business Roundtable, an organization of executives from 60 of the largest travel companies in the United States.
"This is the perfect time to do this kind of thing," says Greg Furman, president of the Luxury Marketing Council, an organization of executives from major luxury goods and services companies.
Ford drew praise for his attention to the mundane task of improving the efficiency and organization of executive departments, creating several "super cabinets" under which many departments were consolidated.
Surveys by Western business organizations of executives show growing disenchantment over the past year and a sense that doing business in China, never easy, is growing harder.
As it turned out, the subcontractor hired for the demolition was an organization comprised of executives from one company without the requisite experience and two senior executives from a second company under scrutiny by city investigators, a company whose former owner twice had been convicted of federal crimes, and had been accused of ties to organized crime.
There are several reasons for this, said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum, an organization of police executives that does recruiting and training.
To that end, Mr. Valenti is scheduled to meet today with Kenneth R. Kay, executive director of the Computer Systems Policy Project, an organization of chief executives from 11 major technology firms, including I.B.M., Intel and Microsoft.
After more than an hour talking with three executives of the Boston Club, the region's largest organization of senior executives and professional women, only a handful of potential candidates emerged.
The Business Roundtable, an organization of chief executives from large corporations, called today for a $300 billion package of tax cuts to stimulate the economy.
Earlier versions of the proposal have been sharply criticized by the Business Roundtable, an organization of chief executives from the nation's most prominent corporations, as well as the United States Chamber of Commerce.
And cabinet sessions do look a lot like the Business Roundtable, the organization of chief executives that, a few weeks ago, held part of its annual meeting in the East Room.
