Charles McSwain, CSX, IAMC's first member

Entering Year Seven:
501 and Counting

"W. Somerset Maugham, the great British novelist and playwright of the early to mid-1900s, once said, "Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs,'" writes IAMC Executive Director Ron Starner.

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First Class at the Oklahoma City Professional Forum

BCIR Hosts CCIM Class "Lease vs. Own Analysis Using Excel-Based Tools"

Jim Alexander

"Benjamin Franklin once said, 'the best investment is in the tools of one's own trade.' IAMC's leaders have believed this from day-one. We are very pleased to announce that, through its BCIR affiliate, IAMC is about to open a major vista of high-value educational offerings for its members," says Jim Alexander, vice president for business development, St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Assn.

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Chart Room

• Payroll employment
• Productivity
• Exports and imports
• The dollar
• Interest rates
• Gross domestic product
• Industrial production: manufacturing
• Corporate profits
• U.S. manufacturers' after-tax profits
• Consumer price index

Current Employment Statistics Survey; updated through June 2008 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

Updated through 1st quarter 2008

Phoenix Professional Forum
Program Reports

Read the following articles and then look for more Phoenix Forum reports and presentation slides at E-briefs on IAMC'c Web site.

Site Selection and 'the Fragmented Firm'
"Fragmented firms. They're ubiquitous in today's business world, propelled by the broad-scale embrace of strategies that include outsourcing, off-shoring and operational dispersal. But how do companies most effectively manage themselves in an ever-more fragmented environment?" Read this article.

Joel Kurtzman Source: The Milken Institute

Who's the CLEARest one of all?
"During his years as an international economist for the United Nations, Joel Kurtzman, the persuasive closing speaker at the IAMC Spring 2008 Professional Forum in Phoenix, won India's Indira Gandhi Prize for his work negotiating between that nation and Union Carbide Corp. after the Bhopal disaster. That experience is among many that singularly qualify him to evaluate risk environments around the globe."
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