The Find: While 90 percent of CEOs worldwide view globalization as both inevitable and positive, American business leaders are significantly more worried about retaining talent in a flat world than their counterparts in Europe. The Source: The EquaTerra Globalization Study conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit on...
A Green Oath for Business LeadersMake them author the oath too.Society and the environment are as inescapable for business as customers, suppliers, owners and employees. Why not try it out the proposition -- instruct the graduating Harvard MBA class to write the oath, sign it, and making track the results...
NEW YORK -- New York State Biotechnology Association NYBA, the voice of New York State's biotechnology industry, announced today that Stephen Sands, Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Healthcare Investment Banking at Lazard Freres & Co., will provide the keynote address and be honored as Business Leader of the Year...
Who can you trust? According to business leaders, the industry that has the least 'trust capital' in the States is insurance. Retail banking takes the cake for "most trusted." The Unisys-sponsored study of 1,700 business leaders found that perceptions of certain services and industries differ...
WASHINGTON -- John J. Castellani, President of the Business Roundtable, expressed business leaders' support for reauthorizing a strengthened No Child Left Behind Act and urged Congress to maintain the law's accountability measures to ensure that the nation meets the goal of all students being able to read and do math...
MADRID, SPAIN, Jan 10, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The Honourable Christian Paradis, Secretary of State for Agriculture and Member of Parliament for Megantic-L'Erable, met with Spanish business leaders today to discuss and promote agricultural in MADRID, SPAIN, Jan 10, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The...
As an introduction to the most quoted business leader of the last month, it would not do her justice to comment on her family situation or her appearance, easy crutches though they are. And let us not even start wheeling out the dusty 'sisters are d...
It is easy to ‘speak’, but often difficult to be ‘heard’, that too attentively. There are numerous business leaders that are invited to parties; conferences and seminars to ‘say a few words’, but the leaders are rarely heard. Hence, it is essential for business leaders to make their speech as...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Patrick O'Brien has been named Business Leader for GE Insurance Solutions' U.S. Accident & Health business unit, responsible for the company's U.S.-based Long Term Care, Group Long Term Disability, Managed Behavioral Health, Critical Illness, and Personal Accident products.
LONDON AND BERLIN , Jan 20, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Sabine Christiansen to interview top international political and global business leaders LONDON AND BERLIN , Jan 20, 2006 CCNMatthews via COMTEX -- Sabine Christiansen to interview top international political and global business...
An IBM survey of over 700 consumers and business leaders in North America and Europe has revealed consumers think companies are increasingly acting without understanding them -- and some companies admit this. Of more than 100 business leaders questioned, 79 percent admitted to taking significant marketing and promotional actions...
VIETNAM'S accession to the WTO has received the backing of a number of high-profile business leaders. VIETNAM'S accession to the WTO has received the backing of a number of high-profile business leaders.
To succeed in the years ahead, business leaders need new strategies, both inside and outside their organisations To succeed in the years ahead, business leaders need new strategies, both inside and outside their organisations
Strategists, finance executives, and business leaders constantly wrestle with trade-offs between risk and business performance imperatives such as growth, restructuring, and outsourcing. Many of these companies seem to be better at one than the other Strategists, finance executives, and business leaders constantly wrestle with trade-offs...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Thomas H. Meeker, president and chief executive officer of Churchill Downs Incorporated (NASDAQ: CHDN) ("CDI"), has been named "Business Leader of the Year" for a large business by the Louisville, Ky.-based Business First publication in its inaugural "Business of the Year" Awards. The honor was presented during...
Global business leaders seem to be smelling the roses, at least for their own operations. Three-quarters of senior executives in North America, Europe and Asia believe their companies and industries will grow in 2006, according to the results of an o Global business leaders seem to...
HERNDON, Va -- RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a leading "triple play" provider of competitive cable television, high speed internet and local and long distance telephone services, announced today that it has received 2006 "Who's Who in Business" recognition by the residents of the Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania area for the third...
THE 4TH WORLD Chambers Congress held in Durban brought together more than 800 chamber of commerce executives and business leaders from 88 countries with the goal of strengthening business worldwide and promoting economic development, particularly in THE 4TH WORLD Chambers Congress held in Durban brought...