Matthew L. Brown
Reporter- Boston Business Journal
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Boston area executives feel much the same way about the local and national economies today as they did a year ago, according to the results of an instant survey conducted Thursday morning by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and Sovereign Bank.
Participants in the survey, which was conducted over breakfast at the Westin Copley Place, said they generally felt the U.S. economy would be in somewhat better shape in the next year than it is today.
More than half of respondents said the Greater Boston would also be in somewhat better shape in a year.
The only other question to draw more than half of respondents to an answer asked which area of transportation infrastructure is most important to their individual businesses. A full 60 percent said highways and roads.
The chamber has been hosting the economic outlook breakfast for about 14 years. Questions in the survey are asked, and answered on the spot by attendees using handheld transponders.
The survey was followed by a panel discussion featuring Steven Andrews, a Sovereign senior vice president, John Harthorne, founder of MassChallenge Inc., Cathy Minehan, dean of Simmons School of Management, Richard Moore, area president of UPS and Paul Palandjian, chairman and CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate.
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