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Defense Acquisition University featured in January 04 fortune magazine, "Top 100 Companies to work For".


The Defense Acquisition University (DAU DAU - /dow/ [German Fidonet] D"ummster Anzunehmender User. A German acronym for stupidest imaginable user. From the engineering-slang GAU for Gr"osster Anzunehmender Unfall (worst foreseeable accident), especially of a LNG tank farm plant or something with similarly disastrous ) received three awards at the 5th Annual Corporate University Xchange (CUX CUX Corporate University Xchange (provides education research, benchmarking and advisory services to corporate America) ) Award ceremony held at the Harvard Business School Harvard Business School, officially named the Harvard Business School: George F. Baker Foundation, and also known as HBS, is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University.  in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 3, 2003. The university earned top honors in the Measurement and Alignment categories, and an honorable distinction in the e-Learning category. Among the finalists in these and other categories were IBM Corporate Learning, the Boeing Leadership Center, General Motors University, and FedEx Ground University.

The awards ceremony was hosted by Corporate University Xchange and Harvard Business School Publishing Harvard Business School Publishing is a not-for-profit, wholly owned subsidiary of Harvard Business School. It operates as an umbrella corporation to manage a group of publishing products associated with the School, including Harvard Business Review (management journal), Harvard  Division. Fortune magazine sponsored the awards and featured the winners in its January "Top 100 Companies to work For" edition.
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Title Annotation:Acquisition & Logistics Excellence
Publication:Defense AT & L
Date:Mar 1, 2004
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