Howard Muson

Howard Muson is a writer and researcher who specializes in business management and public policy. The former editor of Across the Board magazine, he is a regular contributor to the mid-market series of Executive Action reports. His previous research reports for The Conference Board include the 2003 report Valuing Experience: How to Motivate and Retain Mature Workers.

Publications by Howard Muson

Executive Action Report

• On the Record with Dr. Loren Skeist
  02 April, 2013
• On the Record with Thomas J. Sullivan
  12 December, 2012
• On the Record with Nick Konidaris
  15 November, 2012
• Who's Afraid of the Cloud?
  22 May, 2012
• Sweat the Small Stuff to Improve Your Business Forecasts
  09 January, 2012
• Creating the Bullet-Proof Business Model
  05 April, 2011
• Managing Brands in a Topsy-Turvy Marketing Environment
  17 February, 2011
• Good Execution Isn't Just Stuff Leaders Delegate
  01 December, 2010
• Does Your Company Encourage Good Followership?
  16 November, 2010
• Leadership as Performance Art
  09 November, 2010
• Treating Contingent Workers as a Strategic Resource
  16 September, 2010
• Goals and Incentives for a New Day
  17 August, 2010
• Opening up to Open Innovation
  17 August, 2010
• Strategies for Winning Government Business—and Making It Profitable, Too
  29 April, 2010
• Survival Lessons from Family Businesses
  09 April, 2010
• Does Your Company Need a "Don’t-Do" List?
  24 February, 2010
• Getting Fit For Leaner Times
  24 February, 2010
• Solving the Customer’s Price Issues.
  24 February, 2010
• Reengaging Lost Customers
  24 February, 2010
• Clearing Paths for Critical Foreign Talent to Work in the United States
  17 December, 2009
• Recession Lessons for Mid-Market CFOs: Successfully Obtaining Loans in the New World of Credit
  30 September, 2009
• Relieving Pressures to Eliminate Jobs
  15 July, 2009
• How to Compete and Win In a Broken Economy
  19 March, 2009
• Tighten Your Supply Chain to Wring Out Costs
  28 January, 2009
• Innovate Today, Grow Tomorrow
  31 October, 2008
• The Profit in Smarter Pricing
  23 July, 2008
• HR Challenge: Staffing Up to Expand Overseas
  30 April, 2008
• How CEOs Turn Themselves (and Others) into True Leaders
  26 February, 2008
• Step Up to Solutions-Selling
  30 October, 2007
• Brotherly Alliances, Engines of Growth
  19 June, 2007
• Growing a Business Niche by Niche
  21 March, 2007
• Designing the High-Performance Compensation Plan That Works
  04 January, 2007
• Stopping the Profit Drain from Higher Energy Costs
  26 October, 2006
• How to Hire Top Performers
  (Hint: They Already Have Jobs)
  10 August, 2006
• Growing a Family Company: An Exercise in Patience
  07 June, 2006
• Preparing for the Worst: A Guide to Business Continuity Planning for Mid-Markets
  09 February, 2006
• How Smaller Companies Earn Customer Loyalty
  18 August, 2005
• How CFOs Carve Out Time for What Counts Most
  26 April, 2005
• Reaching the Goal Line On Good Governance
  08 February, 2005
• Succession Planning....Without Tears
  01 December, 2004
• Making Over Leaders and Leadership Styles
  12 August, 2004
• Strategic Planning for the Time-challenged
  19 May, 2004
• Redesigning HR for Mid-Sized Firms
  14 April, 2004
• The Entrepreneurial Flame: How to Keep it Burning Brightly in Your Company
  03 December, 2003
• The Brain and Experience Drain: Are You Prepared for a Retirement Tsunami?
  05 August, 2003

Research Report

• Cutting Healthcare Costs: Options for Mid-Market Firms
  25 April, 2006
• Keeping the Talent Pipeline Filled in the Energy and Utility Industries
  28 July, 2004
• Outsourcing HR in the Power Utilities and Energy Industry
  29 June, 2004
• Valuing Experience: How to Motivate and Retain Mature Workers
  08 April, 2003
• Managing Growth: Smart Strategies for Smaller and Mid-Sized Companies
  13 March, 2001