General service contractors, for the most part, have never been eager innovators. The business of renting furniture, fixtures, and human beings has been, until recently, a relatively uncomplicated business. Lately, however, customer demand has...
There were signs that it was no ordinary event taking place on the Cambridge, Mass., campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology one muggy week this June. Local county sheriff deputies and MIT security guards prowled Kresge Auditorium's...
What to do when your attendees are sick and tired ...
▪ “We need to shape the future through global partnership: one world, one medicine.” — Huan Jiefu, professor of surgery and president, Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences at the “Health Care East and West, Moving Into the 21st Century...
Lauren Kramer-Whelan, director of meetings with the Alexandria, Va. — based American Academy of Otolaryngology, says she's “thrilled” at having placed the winning bid of $270,000 on a Washington, D.C. Convention Center package worth $500,000 at...
What could make a teenage girl donate her baby-sitting money to a conference on a congenital developmental disorder instead of spending it at her local mall? Or pull a busy investment banker from New York City to Saint Paul, Minn., to take his...
Adult learning principles apply cross-culturally — adults everywhere want to participate in their own learning — but there's a caveat: Definitions of participation do vary...
If you're a North American medical society looking to position your organization — and expand your meetings — across the pond, check out Brussels, Belgium — based European Association Services, a joint venture of Zug, Switzerland — based General...
