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Each quarter we interview more than 500 CEOs, CFOs and Managing Directors of growing businesses - large and small, public and private, in the U.S.
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Management Barometer Business Outlook Report June 2010
The Management Barometer is one in a series of quarterly business outlook surveys from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The survey provides a view on the 12-month outlook for revenue growth, new investments, new hiring plans, emerging business barriers and more.
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Trendsetter Barometer Business Outlook Report May 2010
The Private Company Trendsetter Barometer is one in a series of quarterly business outlook surveys from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The survey provides a view on the 12-month outlook for revenue growth, new investments, new hiring plans, emerging business barriers and more.
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Consumer Products Barometer Outlook Report February 2009
The Consumer Products Barometer is one in a series of quarterly business outlook surveys from PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Barometer provides a view on the direction of the economy, including revenue growth, new investments, new hiring plans, emerging business barriers and more.
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IFRS Perspectives -- December 2009
While the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not likely to issue a timeline for transition to the IFRS until 2011, by that time more than 150 countries will have already adopted the standards. Conversion activity is now becoming too significant for many US-multinational businesses to ignore.
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Talent Management -- August 2009
Driven by the nearly universal concerns over the state of today’s economy and its impact on corporate revenue within the industrial products industry, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) surveyed senior executives at large US-based industrial manufacturers to assess human resources (HR) cost management trends and strategies, and to consider the effect such measures may be having on their short- and long-term talent management strategies. In addition, executives were asked about their efforts to identify, develop, and prepare rising talent within their organizations.
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Preparing for Recovery -- June 2009
As optimism in the U.S. economy appears to have bottomed at a 16-year low and is now showing signs of recovery, 83 percent of CEOs interviewed for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Private Company Trendsetter Barometer survey report taking important business measures to offset the current and future impact of the recession, with 51 percent characterizing these efforts as "major."
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Financial Crisis -- April 2009
As the world continued to feel the effects of the economic downturn in first quarter 2009, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) reached out to a large number of US-based industrial manufacturers to determine their sentiments regarding the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Additionally, this survey uncovered the methods that organizations plan to use in their efforts to contain costs, their use of the credit markets, tax planning actions, and how companies view their cash management forecasting.
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Setting a course for growth through the crisis -- March 2009
As optimism in the U.S. economy reaches a new 16-year low among private-company CEOs for the fourth consecutive quarter, almost 96 percent of CEOs interviewed for PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Private Company Trendsetter Barometer survey report being impacted by the credit crisis and economic recession. However, those companies taking a proactive, higher-risk strategic approach to long-term business concerns while simultaneously managing the immediate demands of the current economic crisis are more strongly positioned to succeed.
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Innovation and Technology -- January 2009
Many organizations today struggle to determine how information technology (IT) can help achieve business goals. In light of this, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) asked senior executives from large US-based industrial manufacturers about their efforts to improve their IT functions while balancing cost pressures and the dynamic environment of today's business.
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CEOs seek new ways to understand the networked consumer -- January 2008
In this special issue, PricewaterhouseCoopers surveyed our panel of senior executives at US-based multinationals to determine how companies are engaging consumers in conversation to understand changing trends. The rise of new media provides a two-way channel for companies to seek out the attitudes, behaviors, and intentions of consumers—either when they talk to each other or to the company directly. In particular, we examined how well companies are using real-time digital outlets, such as blogs and social networking websites to engage consumers in conversation.
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