Indeed, the Real Estate Roundtable, a leading industry lobbying group, puts the estimate even higher, at $13 billion $5 billionon in real estate alone.
Throughout the week on DealBook's Web site (nytimes.com/dealbook), we are holding DealBook Dialogue, our first online roundtable with leading academics, market participants and regulators.
And yesterday I hosted a roundtable with leading international NGOs to discuss the situation in Sudan and the next steps ahead.
The United States Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, two leading business groups, spent close to $10 million on ads -- their largest-ever campaign for a single legislative issue -- and assigned waves of lobbyists to buttonhole lawmakers.
I recently chaired a roundtable of leading sustainability executives from several industries and none of them believes the majority of corporate boards will take the necessary steps to ensure the survival of their own companies, not to mention society in general, unless push comes to shove.
At these retreats, fellows and faculty have an opportunity to present and review each other's research, to hear lectures and participate in roundtables convened by leading scientists, physicians, and policy makers, and to discuss future development of PEH.
In this episode, Kevin would be onscreen, leading a roundtable discussion of the women's experiences during the season.
The Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable, made up of leading chief executives, are suing the Securities and Exchange Commission, arguing that a rule giving proxy access on corporate boards to small shareholders did not get a proper review and would undermine companies.
The major provisions of the treaty that mandated these elections were drafted under the influence of the business lobby, the European Roundtable of Industrialists, whose leading lights are currently overseeing the development of a new "competitiveness pact".
