With women comprising such a large percentage of the meeting planning world, a book to be published this October called Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide, should be a hot read for this industry. Coauthored by Carnegie Mellon...
You are the director of CME in an academic institution and have been asked by a communication company to collaborate on an a educational grant they had recently been promised by one of their pharmaceutical company clients. The timeline on this...
The theme was the dawning of a new age of Aquarius—think the buoyant musical "Hair" circa 1969—and the underlying message was partnerships and professionalism at Meeting Planners International 2003 World Education Congress in San Francisco Aug. 3...
DCI, which has been producing high-tech trade shows for the past 20 years, recently created a new subsidiary for the healthcare industry. According to DCI Health’s managing director Elizabeth Cutler, who formerly served as vice president of the...
Attendance was not off as much as officials had feared at the annual meeting of the American Society of Association Executives, which was held last week in Honolulu, August 22-26...
According to the “ACCME Annual Report Data 2002,” released earlier this summer, the CME business is still going strong. Total income for last year was almost $1.6 billion, a 14.5 percent increase over 2001; this is an even larger increase than was...
MEDIA FOCUS ON healthcare costs, quality issues, professional competence, and scrutiny of pharma's role in CME, together with the recent proliferation of rules and guidelines, make it all too clear that we must move beyond just providing CME...