Baseline articles from September 2005

Baseline archives from September 2005

NASA Discovers Disaster Simulation Falls Short.(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
September 1, 2005... When the space shuttle Discovery came back to Earth on Aug. 9, the crew owed their safe return partly to luck. After Discovery's July 26 launch, NASA was forced to admit that two years of work had not solved the problem of how to keep...

Kimberly-Clark: Cleaning Up.
September 7, 2005... When Jerry Rehfuss, a finance director at Kimberly-Clark Co., was asked in July 2003 to head up the company's efforts to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, he cringed. Adhering to the federal law, crafted in response to the...

Netbank: Check Mate.
September 7, 2005... Chris Erice works for a medical services company in downtown Honolulu. He's surrounded by banks. The nearest teller machine is located less than 100 feet from the lobby of the office building in which he works. So when he wants to make a...

Tempur-Pedic International: Amazing Race.
September 7, 2005... What did Dale Williams want for Christmas in 2003? An IPO, mostly. As the CFO of Tempur-Pedic International, Williams was hoping to take the high-end mattress maker public by December 2003. He also knew that in doing so, the company...

Primer: Wireless Mesh Networks.
September 7, 2005... What is it? In a mesh network, the wireless connection extends not only to client computers, such as wireless laptops, but between other network nodes. This is in contrast with a typical wireless local area network, where the client computers...

Ameriquest's Business, By the Numbers.
September 12, 2005... Ameriquest Mortgage Base Case Headquarters: 1100 Town and Country Rd., Orange, CA 92868 Phone: (714) 541-9960 Business: One of the nation's largest providers of sub-prime mortgages--loans for borrowers with less than perfect...

Planner: Calculating Costs of a Revenue Management System.(Brief Article)
September 13, 2005... What's the right price? For your hotel company, that fundamental business question is particularly important in an industry where the answer changes by the hour. Setting the right price for your 13,000 rooms requires a delicate balance between...

Ameriquest: Making Mortgages a Little Too Easy.
September 14, 2005... When Ameriquest put in place an automated system to speed mortgage processing, it cut more than half of the 50 steps used to administer loans. However, it also eliminated some of the checks that verified that the information on an...

A Woman's Touch.
September 20, 2005... Debra Walton grew up on an Australian sheep farm in a town of 4,000. Her family's wish: find a husband from a nearby farm so they could someday merge the properties. As a single mother of three, Judy Campbell started her career in human...