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Happy Employees Create Profit for Continental Air

Continental Airlines is a company that discovered it could not get out of bankruptcy until it had happy employees who enjoyed coming to work- as well as taking care of customers.

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Happy Employees Give Companies Higher Return for Investors

If your company was listed in Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For in America, you had equity returns that were 3.5% per year higher than those of your peers. A new study reveals that employee satisfaction correlates positively with shareholder returns, says Alex Edmans of the Wharton School.

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Small Businesses Put Ex-cons to Work

Ten years ago, Debbie Jakacki, owner of Jakacki Bag & Barrel in Chicago, a family business that's been around since 1942, found herself continually frustrated by her employees. We didn't have a lot of people who had a great work ethic, says Jakacki. After learning about the Safer Foundation, a Chicago-based nonprofit that helps people with criminal records find gainful employment, she decided to give it a try, and it has worked out very well.

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GE to Choose Site for Biggest U.S. Solar Plant, Investing $600 Million

General Electric plans to select a location in about three months for a U.S. solar-panel plant that may be the country's largest, with an investment that will exceed $600 million and power 80,000 homes.

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Virgin Spends $1.4 Billion On Super-Efficient, Ultra Quiet Jet Engines

Wanting to pay less for fuel now, Virgin America has invested in a remarkable new engine from GE. This is one of these significant breakthroughs in technology and engine efficiency that come along once every 10 to 15 years, David Cush, Virgin America's CEO, tells us.

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FedEx Adds More Than 4,000 New, Fuel Efficient Vehicles

The world's largest express transportation company continues to bolster its fuel efficiency with a significant expansion this summer of lower polluting, energy efficient vehicles. While doubling the fleet of all-electric vehicles to 43, FedEx is also adding more hybrid-electrics and light composite vehicles.

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Department Of Energy Crowns Light Bulb Of The Future Contest-Winner

A Philips LED bulb is the winner of the U.S. Department of Energy's $10 million competition to develop a low-cost, energy efficient, high-performance replacement for the incandescent bulb. The energy-saving L Prize winner uses less than 10 watts of power, providing an energy savings of 83 percent, while still emitting the same amount of light, and with the familiar warm glow.

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Dreamliner's Maiden Voyage for Boeing; Saves Money, Adds Comfort

The Boeing Co Dreamliner, the world's first carbon-composite airliner, flew to Hong Kong from Tokyo carrying its first paying passengers on Wednesday in a flight described as a 'game changer' that could set a new benchmark in air travel.