The MBNQA promotes a businesses future success. If you consider, for example, that for the fourth year in a row, the fictitious "Baldridge Index" has outperformed the Standard & Poor's (S&P) 500 by almost 3 to 1, according to the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST. To prove this point NIST took a hypothetical $1,000 and invested it in six of the companies awarded the MBNQA from 1988 to 1998. NIST found that the group of six companies outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 2.7 to 1, achieving a 394.5 percent return on investment compared to a 146.9 percent return for S&P 500 (Baldridge Index).

The award was the result of countless hours of hard work, dedication to excellence, and a willingness to be innovative, that began in the early 1990s.

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