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2016
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Unlocking Value from Integrated Corporate Communications and Marketing
23 September, 2016 | Key Business Issues
We look at the trend toward integrating corporate communications and marketing and consider the various ways that these two functions working together can contribute value to corporations.
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Unlocking Value from Integrated Corporate Communications and Marketing (CHRO Business Implications)
23 September, 2016 | Key Business Issues
Human resources professionals might not know it, but they have an important role in the future of corporate communications and marketing. This overview explores how integrating these two functions could deliver big opportunities in HR.
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Unlocking Value from Integrated Corporate Communications and Marketing (CEO Business Implications)
23 September, 2016 | Key Business Issues
CEOs have a crucial role to play in ensuring integrated corporate communications and marketing delivers on its potential to create value.
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China Center Quick Note: Back to Basics -- The CCP at 95
21 September, 2016 | China Center Publications
Since assuming command of the Communist Party of China (CCP) in late 2012, Xi Jinping has overseen one of the most fundamental transformations of the party in at least three decades. Already, this shift has effectively changed, and will continue to change, the government relations requirements for MNCs in China.
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Importing a Solution: Can Immigration Help Mitigate Looming Labor Shortages?
20 September, 2016 | Executive Action Report
Depending on your organization’s industry and location, hiring more immigrants may be a viable solution for addressing labor shortages over the next 15 years.
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Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View
16 September, 2016 | Economics Watch Reports
The US economy chugs along: strong consumer sector, but little to cheer about elsewhere.
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China Center Data Flash: Acquiescing to lower growth?
13 September, 2016 | China Center Publications
Credit creation slowed more than expected in July, but the PBOC isn’t easing monetary policy yet and has publicly stated it won’t be doing so. This is a positive factor, assuming it persists, for facilitating long overdue economic restructuring.
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China Center Chart Dive: Watch out for a housing price down-cycle and its knock-on effects
13 September, 2016 | China Center Publications
There is a strong correlation between China’s monetary cycles and housing price cycles, but it is important to note that a down-cycle in housing prices means slower price growth, and not necessarily negative price growth.
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StraightTalk® Global Economic Outlook 2016: Will Greater Uncertainty Lead to Business Investment Paralysis?
13 September, 2016 | Key Business Issues
Will greater uncertainty lead to business investment paralysis? In this issue of StraightTalk, Chief Economist Bart van Ark looks at the business implications of economic uncertainty and weakening of US corporate profits.
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Global Economic Outlook 2016: What Lies Ahead for Corporate Profits in Mature Economies?
06 September, 2016 | Research Report
Until 2014, profits for US corporations were growing at record levels, despite lackluster growth across mature economies. Since 2014, and moving forward, US corporations are facing headwinds which may slow profit growth.
