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"Just Say No": If only fighting bribery were that simple An expansive look at bribery today and how both Mon, 15 Apr 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2485 http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2485 "Just Say No": If only fighting bribery were that simple An expansive look at bribery today and how both Mon, 15 Apr 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2485 http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2485 Corporate Philanthropy with a Global Footprint A snapshot of the current state of global Fri, 08 Mar 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2452 http://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=2452 Book Discussion: The China Strategy <p>Join us for this webcast as we welcome Edward Tse, Booz &amp; Company&rsquo;s Chairman of Greater China and author of the book,&nbsp;<em>The China Strategy. </em>Dre Tse will share with us his insights on how&nbsp;to build the capabilities that business leaders need for operating an integrated China-global strategy.</p> <p>During the webcast we Thu, 23 May 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2993 http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2993 New Trends in Energy Markets and More Competitive Economies (Part 1) <p>While the rapid growth of emerging economies creates upward pressure on many energy and commodity prices, there is also considerable volatility in these markets depending on supply and demand conditions as well as short term shocks. What are implications of uncertainty on the economic outlook? How do we gauge how realist a forecast is given the Thu, 23 May 2013 UTC http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2998 http://www.conference-board.org/webcasts/webcastdetail.cfm?webcastid=2998