The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu The leading online blog in the fields of corporate governance and financial regulation. Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:53:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.8 https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/cropped-photography-4-e1706898544564-1-32x32.png Trendsetter Barometer — Business Outlook Report – The Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu 32 32 Trendsetter Barometer — Business Outlook Report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/10/19/trendsetter-barometer-business-outlook-report/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=trendsetter-barometer-business-outlook-report https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2012/10/19/trendsetter-barometer-business-outlook-report/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2012 13:02:32 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/?p=34730?d=20150113135321EST Posted by Noam Noked, co-editor, HLS Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation, on Friday, October 19, 2012
Editor's Note:

The following post comes to us from Ken Esch, partner in the Private Company Services of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. This post is based on a PwC publication, titled “Trendsetter Barometer, Business outlook report, Summer 2012;” the full document is available here.

Quarterly Highlights

PwC commissioned independent research firm BSI Global Research Inc. to interview 243 chief executive officers (CEOs/CFOs) of leading privately held US businesses in the second quarter of 2012. The interviewees were asked about their current business performance, the state of the economy, and their expectations for business growth over the next 12 months. We then compared their responses with the prior quarter’s results to see how the outlook has changed.

Key findings:

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