New survey finds evidence for shift in balance of global economic power. These conclusions come from a global survey of corporate investment plans carried out by KPMG International. Corporate investment strategists from over 300 of the largest multinational companies in 15 major economies were asked where they plan to invest in the next 12 months and in five years' time.

MIT Sloan magazine, published by the Alumni Office, provides the entire MIT Sloan community with important news about the School and alumni, as well as insights into pressing issues facing alumni today — both professionally and personally. The MIT Sloan School of Management is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. It is one of the world's leading business schools, conducting research and teaching in finance, entrepreneurship, marketing, strategic management, economics, organizational behavior, operations management, supply chain management, information technology, and many other fields.

T&E magazine is dedicated to helping companies master travel and entertainment expense management by offering policy advice, legal insights, trend analysis and smart solutions for the many challenges facing travel management professionals.

SEARCH. BY NOW MARKETERS don’t need anyone to tell them that it’s important and that they should be paying attention to it. After all, search composes 40% of online ad spending and is becoming an ever-more-important driver of traffic across the web. Almost a quarter of September web traffic came from search engines, up from 20% last year (Page 20).

Electronic E-mail remain a major component of every marketer’s strategy. Say what you will about the potential of new-fangled channels such as video, social media and virtual worlds, e-mail marketing isn’t going away. Far from it. While improved filters have helped clear my inbox of unexpected, unnecessary, unwelcome spam, I now confront a thornier problem: picking among the dozens of targeted and relevant messages I receive every day.

The choices we make, individually and collectively, in the coming years will make an incredible amount of difference, perhaps more so than at any other time in the history of life on this planet.”— John Robbins, The Food Revolution Are you concerned about your health? Would you like to reduce your risk of getting diabetes, heart disease, and many types of cancer? Would you like to help the environment, each and every day? Would you like to make food more available for the poor of the world? Would you like to ensure that animals suffer less in the world?

June 17, 2008 - Report Reveals China Lags Behind U.S. in Using Non-Military “Soft Power” to Gain Influence in Asia. Today, The Chicago Council on Global Affairs and the East Asia Institute (EAI) released a major new report, Soft Power in Asia 2008. The report provides an eye-opening look at how China, just months before it is set to take the world’s center stage during the 2008 Summer Olympics, still ranks below the United States as a multifaceted power in the opinion of its Asian neighbours.