Kelley School Business Outlook Panel to provide economic forecast for 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 23, 2008

EDITORS: A schedule of the Business Outlook Panel’s appearances is below. Arrangements have been made for electronic media covering the Indianapolis presentation.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — 2008 was a “very tricky year” for economists to anticipate, and forecasters who will present the Indiana University Business Outlook Panel forecast acknowledge that 2009 “could be even more challenging.”

“Every day, when you listen to the news, new factors come into the picture, driving the economy,” said Jerry Conover, director of the Indiana Business Research Center in IU’s Kelley School of Business. “Figuring out where it’s headed is challenging — housing markets, credit markets, employment changes — when all of this will turn around is the biggest question on people’s minds.

“We’re expecting very attentive audiences this year as we go around the state, telling the story about what the economy holds for the year ahead,” Conover added. “It’s a more unpredictable environment today — all the more reason to try to become as informed as possible.”

For more than three decades, the Kelley School of Business has presented its national, state and local forecasts through a series of presentations in 10 Indiana cities. Its tour will begin with a 7:30 a.m. presentation Nov. 6 in Indianapolis at the Columbia Club, 121 Monument Circle.  …

For the entire tour schedule and news release… http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/9093.html

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Former Joint Chiefs chair, Clorox Co. CEO exchange leadership ideas with Kelley School students

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Sept. 30, 2008

EDITORS: The media is invited to attend a presentation Friday (Oct. 3) by Gen. Peter Pace and Clorox Co. CEO Donald R. Knauss, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the IU Auditorium. Pace and Knauss will not be available for interviews. Contact George Vlahakis at 812-855-0846 or gvlahaki@indiana.edu for more information.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Gen. Peter Pace, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Don Knauss, chief executive officer of the Clorox Co., will be visiting Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business this week as part of the school’s leaders-in-residence program. 

Pace, who retired last year from the U.S. Marine Corps after more than 40 years of service, will interact with students and faculty at the Kelley School in Bloomington and Indianapolis. He will be a leader-in-residence for the 2008-2010 tenure. …

Read the entire news release here… http://info.kelley.iu.edu/news/page/normal/8908.html