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3 Reasons for Brain Drain—and 3 Possible Solutions

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As Bloomberg noted last year , this is particularly problematic in cities with larger urban areas nearby—such as Hanford, California, within shouting distance of both Los Angeles and Silicon Valley, and Danville, Virginia, near the tech hotbed of Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. The solution.

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Innovation: Key to Boosting Meeting Attendance

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And around that same time, the Association of the United States Army notified the Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau it would not hold an upcoming symposium there. Sullivan, AUSA’s President and CEO: “[We] are unable to consider [Raleigh] while the sequestration and other extreme financial pressures on the Army are ongoing.”