Hoteliers have complained for years about paying commissions to site selection companies. Now, Ritz-Carlton has taken action by capping commissions. Will other hotels follow suit...

Medical Meetings and its five sister magazines in The Meetings Group were recently acquired by Intertec Publishing. In a getting-to-know-you meeting, one of the new execs asked me what I considered to be my most valuable source of information in...

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The American Chemical Society aims to hold the best chemists' conference series in 2001. Its formula for reaching the top? Follow a for-profit business model...

Eighth Annual Physician Preferences Survey In 1994, every respondent to the Physician Preferences Survey planned to attend at least one out-of-town CME meeting. In 2001, 34 percent say they didn't attend any meetings requiring travel last year...

Analyze This! In medicine, the autopsy tells the tale. And in direct marketing, back-end analysis is the equivalent of "getting the post." If your marketing postmortem is going to be worth doing, it has to be done right. Bad analysis is worse than...

e-Meetings: Why Groupware? Do your meetings drag on without resolution? Do certain people on your team bulldoze decisions through? If you're frustrated with your meetings, groupware may help...

Winning Promotion How Sweet It Is... Portable, yet comprehensive. That's what MM's panel of editors liked about the winner of our third annual Top Guides Contest. The on-site program for the American Diabetes Association, in a convenient 4.5 by 9...

Someone once defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, says Jack Fisher, chairman of Corbett HealthConnect, a full-service, worldwide health care communications agency located in Chicago...

Nurses' associations say that education on the show floor can be kept clean - free from product promotion, that is. And, they say, the benefits outweigh the risks...