The two men had spent time together the previous month at executive gatherings -- first the Global Business Dialogue on E-Commerce in Paris and then the Fortune Global Forum in Shanghai, sponsored by Time Warner.
Ahuja has also worked as an educator or advisor to many leading companies and business groups across the world and served as an invited panelist, keynote speaker, and expert discussant in a variety of forums, conferences, and academic and executive gatherings.
The researcher also held seminars on the research topic for three different executive gatherings and distributed the questionnaire among them.
Daniel Nicholson, a marketing consultant for Wells Fargo Bank, said the group at his meeting played with Legos and scribbled in coloring books during its executive gathering at the resort last November.
At a News executive gathering the group editorial director of Rupert Murdoch's Australian operation, Campbell Reid, accused "internet darlings" Google and Facebook of allowing their platforms to be used for "porn, cyber-bullying, recruitment of terrorism and pedophilia," according to a report by media editor Sharri Markson in the Australian.
The Yankees began organizational meetings yesterday, with some executives gathering in Tampa, Fla., and others joining in by telephone.
Television network executives gathering in Los Angeles acknowledged that they were grappling with the issue of violence in their programming, Bill Carter writes, as their content draws more scrutiny in the aftermath of the mass killings in Newtown, Conn.
Uefa's executives, gathering in Warsaw for the Europa League final, said the events of Wednesday were "a disaster for Fifa and tarnish the image of football as a whole".
Robert Khuzami, director of enforcement at the Securities and Exchange Commission SECC), says it will target hedge funds for "aberrational" performance, which he considers to be outperforming the market consistently by 3% or more.Hedge-fund executives, gathering in Las Vegas for an industry event (see article), are not pleased with all the attention they're getting.
By contrast, the executive types gathering for the World Economic Forum in Davos in Switzerland next week have enjoyed a Beckhamesque bonanza.
The annual poll by Edelman, which the public relations firm has conducted for 18 years, has often become a talking point among chief executives at gatherings like the World Economic Forum.
