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Perspective: Influencing Systemic Change, Lilliam Lowery, Ed. D.
Perspective: Influencing Systemic Change, Lilliam Lowery, Ed. D.
Leadership Hour at Otterbein University
Dr. Lowery comes to FutureReady Columbus from the Maryland State Department of Education, where she served as state superintendent of schools. Under her leadership, Maryland has consistently finished among the nation’s top performing state school systems, according to Education Week’s Quality Counts, the most comprehensive assessment of the state of American education.
The Relationship Between Terrorism, Oil Prices, And Airline Profitability, Ubirathan Miranda
The Relationship Between Terrorism, Oil Prices, And Airline Profitability, Ubirathan Miranda
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Given the financial challenges faced by the airline industry, understanding of the combined effect of terrorism and the price of petroleum on airline profitability is imperative. The purpose of this correlational study was to determine if a combination of terrorism and the price of petroleum significantly predicted airline profitability, and which variable was the most significant. This study collected samples of financial records from major American commercial passenger and cargo airlines on costs of fuel (n = 84) and airline profitability (n = 84). The terrorism data (n = 84) were comprised of terrorist attacks on petroleum infrastructure in oil-producing …