Governance Meeting

Corporate Governance

The Conference Board governance programs helps companies improve their processes, inspire public confidence, and ensure they are complying with regulations. Through the Directors' Institute, the program provides corporate directors with a nonacademic, impartial forum for open dialogue about the real-world business challenges they face.

Relevant
Since 1993, the Corporate Governance program at The Conference Board has helped corporations develop strong core principles by improving their governance processes through a variety of programs including director training and global ethics education. Become a part of this program.

Distinguished
Our Governance Center provides unique opportunities by bringing together senior executives from leading world-class organizations and institutional investors in a non-adversarial setting to debate and develop innovative governance practices.

Respected
In 2002, The Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise was established to address the causes of declining public and investor trust in companies, their leaders, and America's capital markets. It is considered by many to be a major force in reforming governance and pay practices.

The Conference Board Governance Center

Join a distinguished group of senior executives from leading world-class companies and influential institutional investors in a non-adversarial setting. The Governance Center provides:

Valuable Networking - Access a global organization of major companies and institutional investors who share common interests and issues.
Relevant Knowledge - Share perspectives with prominent senior executives from global companies in meetings, workshops and symposia.
High Visibility - Be a key part of domestic and international events and research projects through sponsorship.
Team Approach - Executives within a company can participate together, encouraging teamwork and leveraging the individual experience.
Cutting Edge Research - Benefit from The Governance Center's research on trends and best practices, both in the United States and internationally.

The Conference Board Directors' Institute

The premier provider of governance education for directors, the Directors' Institute offers your choice of round table forums or customized in-house forums. The Directors' Institute brings together current and former directors, chairman, and CEO's to share their experiences and wisdom with your company's directors in a completely non-academic, hands-on format.

Only foremost directors and practitioners—not academics—serve as faculty, sharing their vast experience.
Topics covers practical "real-world" and "red-flag" issues.
Limited session size and restricted attendance to sitting directors to provide high-level peer dialogue.
One intensive program provides directors with a time-efficient method of getting up to speed with the latest best practices.
The Conference Board Directors' Institute programs are accredited by ISS as a "preferred Boardroom Education Program."

Events/Forums

Governance Center Meetings
Directors’ Institute Roundtable Forum November 12-13, 2009 The Harmonie Club 4 East 60^th Street New York, NY 10022	Corporate Governance & Compliance Crash Course January 13-14, 2010 The Conference Board 845 Third Avenue New York, New York

Councils

European Council on Corporate Governance
Discusses the dramatic changes that are affecting boards of directors and how they might best respond to these changes in order to drive business forward and meet the needs of their investors and stakeholders.

European Legal Council
Updates on EU competition law developments, building a European legal team, controlling outside costs, and the interface between legal and global management are principle items on this council's agenda.

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Research Working Group

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Integrating Corporate and Investor Perspectives
The focus is to better understand and recommend to companies a framework for institutionalizing and mainstreaming their approaches both to designing sustainability programs and to communicating with institutional investors on the nature of these programs.

Webcast

Conference KeyNotes: Organization Design

Conference KeyNotes: Leadership Development

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Publications

Executive Action Reports
The Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Responding to Unsolicited Takeover Offers An overview of issues a board may consider in evaluating its corporation's governance profile, given the potential increase in unsolicited offers in the current market environment.		The Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Avoiding Shareholder Activism This report provides board members with a checklist of issues they should consider addressing in their relations with shareholders and, in particular, how to avoid a costly and disruptive battle with an activist investor.
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Research Reports
The Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Leading the Public Company to Full Recovery The Role of the Board in Turbulent Times offers corporate directors guidance on how to approach their oversight responsibilities during a period of financial distress.		Corporate Governance Handbook: Legal Standards and Board Practices (Third Edition) Revised in 2009, this handbook presents an easy-to-use compendium of rapidly evolving laws and regulations and the best practices adopted by leading companies.
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