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January 28th, 2013
in Anti-Corruption / FCPA, Ethics Credits, Regulatory & Compliance, Surveys and Polls |
Learn What it Takes Ensure Your Operations in India are Compliant with the FCPA, UKBA, and Indian Anti-Corruption Laws
When: Monday, March 04 to Tuesday, March 05, 2013
Where: Le Méridien Hotel, New Delhi, India
For more information, and to register: click here
Tags: ACI Event, India, Poll
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Is PPC really dead?
October 2nd, 2012
in Advertising & Marketing, Surveys and Polls |
In this article Why Paid Search for B2B Companies is Dead (or Dying) the author states that PPC is dead. Is it? Give us your insight, how do you use PPC?
Leave us a comment to share your thoughts!
Tags: B2B Marketing, Poll, PPC
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June2011: ACI Blog update
June 17th, 2011
in Advertising & Marketing, Anti-Corruption / FCPA, Employment & Benefits, Expert Guest Blog Entries, Financial Services, Healthcare, Insurance & Reinsurance, Intellectual Property, International Trade & Defense, Legal Conferences, Litigation, Regulatory & Compliance, Surveys and Polls |
Is removing Muhammad Yunus from his position a good thing?
March 2nd, 2011
in Financial Services, Surveys and Polls |
The Bangladesh’s government has ordered Muhammad Yunus from his post as head of his microfinance bank Wednesday. Muhammad is well known for his revolutionary idea of giving out small loans to small businesses in undeveloped and developing countries. The Grameen Bank has stated that Muhammad will remain in charge and that it would fight the decision.
“The demand for Yunus’ removal as Grameen’s managing director capped a string of problems that faced the outspoken government critic, including an apparently politically motivated defamation trial and accusations of an unauthorized bank transfer 15 years ago”- Full article is available at ABC News
Tags: ACI publications, Legal conferences, Microfinance
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Who is your audience? Learn to make your presentation punch!
March 2nd, 2011
in Surveys and Polls |
Do you know who your audience is?. Attendees often pick sessions based on classifications you provided for the presentation. Give them what they want and meet your audience’s expectations. Present real life examples that are sure to catch their attention. Don’t forget to share best practices, tips/tricks and even lessons learned to support your message. Your audience will thank you.
How insightful are you? Show them why you are a valued expert speaker. Audiences appreciate an insider’s glimpse into what others are doing. Consider incorporating actual Mediasite content, demos, photos, and screenshots into your presentation. Highlight your organization, but do it briefly. You are there as a representative and speaker, so choose your words wisely. Limit the amount of time spent talking about your organization and its history. You can include real life examples that apply to your organization and mix in a variety of examples from other organizations.
Share links. Consider providing your audience links to additional reference materials related to your presentation. While your at it, increase your networking by adding links to your blog. By inviting your audience to connect with you, you’ll be able to create new business opportunities, while enhancing your credibility through insightful blogging.
Tags: ACI publications, Conference Workshops, Legal conferences
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5 simple tips to developing an exciting and memorable presentation
February 16th, 2011
in Legal Conferences, Surveys and Polls |
Create a memorable PowerPoint presentation by following 5 simple steps. These tips cover the agenda slide, graphic design, information per slide, ideal length for a presentation, and a checklist that is sure to make your presentation an effective one. Learn how to avoid common pitfalls that leave your presentation on snooze, rather than insightful, radiant, and memorable.
Agenda Slide
Nothing can diminish a listener’s attention faster than a poorly constructed agenda slide. The purpose of the agenda slide is to give the listeners a general layout of your presentation. It is important to keep these points short and to the point. A good presentation will describes these main points in depth as the presentation progresses. How about the visual aesthetics of the agenda slide? Use vibrant colors. It can excite the senses that naturally increase attention, thus reinforcing your presentation. Don’t forget to display your agenda in a visually striking way. Numbered lists have gone out of style, so depict progression in a different manner.
Avoid complex graphics.
What section of the slide are you referring to? Keep in mind that complex graphics will distract your audience from the point you are trying to get across. Keep it simple, but memorable. Also remember that your audience does not carry binoculars with them to conferences, so avoid slides with tiny fonts. Everyone in the audience should be able to clearly read and understand your slide.
Do not cram information into a slide
Emphasize key messages in detail through your speech and not your slide. Highlight the messages and keywords in your slide by breaking it down to its fundamentals. What you say and what you have written on your slides can be different levels of detail.
Make the length of your presentation just right
If your presentation is too short, it will leave your audience scratching their heads and asking for more information. You want to provide them enough information to convey the overall goal. Too much information, and your audience will daydream and fiddle with their iPhones. Presentations that last 10 to 20 minutes are much more impressionable than anything above 20 minutes, or a presentation below 10 minutes. The same theory goes for the number of slides that you include in a presentation. Remember to keep your slides short and simple, they are reinforcements to your overall presentation. Stay under 20 slides, so that your audience will remember and reference a slide when it is time for questions.
What separates you from the rest?
Consider these 3 questions when constructing your presentation.
- What makes what you are saying any different to anyone else talking on the same subject?
- What makes what you are saying different for this audience than any other audience?
- What makes what you are saying any different now to 6 months ago or in 6 months time?
If you have any tips that you would like to add, please post your comments below.
Tags: ACI publications, Business Presentations, Legal conferences
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Is 140 characters enough to disclose drug risk and side effects?
February 10th, 2011
in Litigation, Pharmaceuticals / Biotech / Life Sciences, Surveys and Polls |
Due to Twitter’s limit on the number of character restraints, pharmaceutical companies are puzzled as to how they can address drug risks and side effects. Is 140 characters enough to fill a legal disclaimer? Many companies wont event risk using twitter and avoid social media all together. The negative publicity is enough to scare big pharma away. So is it possible to remain compliant, reveal full disclosure, and still stay under 140 characters? If yes leave your comments! One idea that comes to mind is creating a tweet that takes you to a landing page describing full risks and side effects. Whats yours? Take the poll!
Tags: ACI publications, Legal conferences, Pharmaceuitcal
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FCPA cases to increase in 2011?
February 7th, 2011
in Anti-Corruption / FCPA, Surveys and Polls |
Do you need an immersion in the FCPA and the elements involved in the key cases? This highly rated pre-conference workshop is designed to provide you with a comprehensive introduction to the FCPA and cover all the bases: the anti-corruption and anti-bribery elements of the statute, internal controls and accounting requirements, and intersections with Sarbanes-Oxley and SEC reporting requirements. Delegates consistently give it top marks for both content and presentation. Learn more by visiting the 25th National Conference on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act homepage!
Tags: ACI publications, bribery act, FCPA, Legal conferences
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The American Conference Institute 2011 Clinical Trials Survey Results
January 19th, 2011
in Legal Conferences, Pharmaceuticals / Biotech / Life Sciences, Surveys and Polls |
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The statistics show that the clinical trials industry is booming, but public scrutiny of clinical trials sponsors and the potential for government enforcement is at an all time high. Now is the time to attend the one event where government insiders, top corporate counsel, and industry leaders come together to teach you the necessary strategies to ensure compliance, minimize risk and liability, and adhere to good clinical practices when conducting clinical trials in the U.S. or abroad.
In response to the complexity facing the clinical trials industry in this tumultuous climate, ACI’s 13th Advanced Forum on Managing Legal Risks in Structuring and Conducting Clinical Trials in the U.S. and Abroad provides a forum for all the key stakeholders- current and former government enforcers, top in-house counsel from pharmaceutical and medical device companies, hospitals and research institutions, and leading industry practitioners- to come together and share insights and practical tips you can implement now in order to structure a compliant clinical trials program. In this time of stepped-up enforcement by regulatory agencies and the Department of Justice (DOJ), companies must be vigilant about protecting human subjects and data validity, especially in jurisdictions where there is less regulation.
It is more difficult than ever before to develop a strategic clinical trials program that maximizes data integrity and minimizes exposure to risk, and yet is also more critical to do so, in the face of the major uncertainty the clinical trials industry faces both domestically and internationally. Clinical trial agreements simply must comply with good clinical practices, or companies can face audits leading to staggering civil penalties and even individual criminal punishment for any wrongdoers who do not abide by the rules. Hear from the experts who have already put established tactical plans for implementing large-scale clinical trials in place, and hear from the current and former enforcers who can help troubleshoot problem areas within clinical trials compliance. More is at stake than record-breaking fines and criminal and civil liability: successful clinical trials are crucial to a company’s pipeline and market share. By teaching how to further develop good clinical practices, this conference will help you protect and increase revenue in this volatile economic climate.
Our expert faculty of top-level lawmakers and industry policy setters will provide you with proven-effect strategies to:
- Understand the FDA’s and the DOJ’s stepped-up enforcement priorities and avoid audits through a strong commitment to compliance;
- Comply with evolving and increasingly more active regulatory frameworks in a broad swath of foreign markets and minimizing (FCPA) and global anti-corruption risks when conducting trials internationally;
- Recruit clinical trial subjects and obtain valid informed consent domestically and globally;
- Navigate myriad conflicting and somewhat confusing state and federal clinical trial disclosure and privacy laws and build a consistent reporting system in light of the trend towards requiring greater transparency in clinical trials data and funding;
- Demystify Medicare secondary payer issues and clarify the challenging guidance related to key issues such as liability arising out of clinical trials; and
- Negotiate key clinical trial agreement terms including insurance, indemnity, and ownership clauses to safeguard intellectual property rights and mitigate liability
Complement your training by attending our hands-on, finely detailed workshops and master classes about the mechanics of setting up successful clinical trial programs
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Special Q&A session with EARN on Microsavings
January 14th, 2011
in Expert Guest Blog Entries, Legal Conferences, Surveys and Polls |
What can Microsavings do to diminish poverty? Microsavings options are typically offered in developing and developed countries as a way to encourage saving for education and other future investments. American Conference Institute held a special Q&A session with EARN to find out what makes Microsavings so attractive and beneficial for all parties.
Follow ACI via Twitter @microsummit and Earn @EARN
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ACI: What is the goal of microsavings?
EARN: EARN is the nation’s largest and fastest-growing microsavings program for low-income workers. Our asset building model combines financial education, microsavings accounts, and additional financial products and services. We match our clients’ savings for investment in life-changing goals such as going to college, purchasing first homes, or starting small businesses.
Through EARN, Bay Area low-income workers can open microsavings accounts and begin saving to invest in high-yield assets, including homeownership, post-secondary education, and micro-enterprise development. Client deposits are matched 2:1 up to $2,000 for total potential savings of $6,000. Since 2002, EARN clients have opened more than 3,000 accounts and deposited over $4 million of their own hard-earned dollars.
In our financial education classes, clients gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to successfully manage their finances and establish relationships within the economic mainstream. In addition to mandated financial education, clients are also offered a bank account, free tax preparation to leverage the Earned Income Tax Credit, and a wide range of monthly financial workshops.
EARN also offers a family-based matched product called the SAFE account (Savings Account For Education), in which families save together for a child’s educational enrichment and college readiness. SAFE accounts receive a 3:1 match on $500, accumulating a total of $2,000. These funds can be used for college tuition and expenses, as well as for educational enrichment that prepares students to attend college and increases their competitiveness as applicants.
2. Is there a particular region of the world that would greatly benefit from microsavings? Why?
EARN emphasizes domestic microsavings, helping families across the United States achieve the American Dream. In our prosperous country, everyone deserves the opportunity to create prosperity for their families. Microsavings programs provide that opportunity to low-income families throughout the country.
ACI: What are they key features required in a savings product for a successful, scalable microsavings program?
EARN: A scalable microsavings account should have the following qualities:
1. FDIC-insured
2. No fees
3. No required minimum balance
4. Interest-bearing
5. Accessible online and through mobile technologies
6. Compatible with an ATM card
7. Available to those without Social Security Numbers
ACI: Which of your clients’ financial choices do you monitor through your microsavings program?
EARN: In our matched savings program, participants’ financial choices are monitored through the course of their participation. In addition, our EARN Research Institute tracks clients’ financial self-efficacy through a variety of factors including personal net worth, household net worth, savings amount and frequency, debt, credit score, financial optimism and financial knowledge. Every quarter, we prepare a quantitative and qualitative analysis (http://www.earn.org/about/quarterly_reports) of our impact on people’s financial lives.
ACI: Does microsavings really help low-income families achieve prosperity?
EARN: EARN’s clients continue to beat the odds by saving and investing for their future, increasing their economic stability, and preparing to leverage their assets into even greater gains for themselves and for their families. A recent study conducted by the EARN Research Institute found that 83% of low-income workers who participated in our matched savings program continued saving after graduateing, indicating that microsavings can have a long-term impact as a poverty prevention tool.
Take our Microfinance short survey and receive the PDF results when you complete the whole survey. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/SPZLK2X
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