Podcasts - The Conference Board

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The Conference Board podcasts are short content-rich discussions of the latest trends and developments in business research.

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Compensation / Benefits

Apr. 18, 2008	Wellness Advantage Research Working Group of The Conference Board that will focus on senior human resource and benefits leaders and corporate medical directors who are challenged with maximizing the value of their wellness programs and gauge the ROI of their programs.
Feb. 14, 2007	The Annual Top Executive Compensation Report Hear Charles Peck, The Conference Board's resident expert on executive compensation, discuss the highlights and implications of the recently released 2006 report. Al Vogl, editor of The Conference Board Review, moderates the discussion. More information about the report

Corporate Citizenship & Sustainability

July 24, 2008	Increasing Regulatory Development Transparency Listen as Rick Otis, Deputy Associate Administrator, Office of Economics, Policy and Administration of the U.S. EPA discusses the regulatory agenda.
Mar. 11, 2008	A New Aspect of Global Warming: The Recognized Need to Adapt Tom Davis, Program Director and Moderator Ira Feldman, President and Senior Counsel, Greentrack Strategies A discussion of how business managers are looking beyond measurements and mitigation to the inevitable aspect of adapting to global warming and climate change; what it will mean for business planning and all institutional managers well into the future.
Jan. 25, 2008	Stakeholder Engagement on the Global Stage/Special Focus: China Listen as Bill Shireman, Working Group Leader, discuss the Research Working Group on Stakeholder Engagement on the Global Stage/Special Focus: China.
Oct. 10, 2007	Climate Change An interview with Andrew Fisk, European Director of External Relations of P&G, regarding climate change.
Oct. 10, 2007	Climate Change An interview with Russel Mills, Director of External Technology and Innovation of Dow Chemical Belgium, regarding climate change.
Oct. 10, 2007	Climate Change An interview with Caspar Ridley, Global Head of Public and Government Affairs of Syngenta, regarding climate change.
Oct. 10, 2007	Climate Change An interview with Nick Robins, Head of the Climate Change Centre of Excellence of HSBC, regarding Climate Confidence Index and climate change.
Sept. 25, 2007	CEO Dialogue: Is Green the New Corporate Imperative? This is the complete recorded breakfast session hosted by The Week magazine and The Conference Board on "Is Green the New Corporate Imperative?" It features three CEO's from prominent global companies discussing the challenges their companies are facing of "going green", government policies and how they communicate new products and initiatives to their employees and the general public. Questions from the session Windows Media File Mp3 File
Jan. 23, 2007	Are They Really Ready to Work? This podcast summarizes the findings from the recent report Are They Really Ready to Work?: Employers' Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century U.S. Workforce. The discussion also includes perspectives from the four organizations (The Conference Board, Corporate Voices for Working Families, Society for Human Resource Management, and Partnership for 21st Century Skills) that collaborated to develop the report. Download the Full Report
Sept. 25, 2006	The Robert W. Campbell Award: Recognizing Business Value through Safety, Health & Environmental Excellence An interview with executives from the National Safety Council, co-founder of the Award, ExxonMobil Corporation, the Award's underwriter, and the CEO from Noble Corporation, one of the winning companies.
Sept. 13, 2006	Outstanding Corporate Citizenship: Winning the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership A conversation with S.C. Johnson, one of the 2005 winners of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership, about their experience applying for and winning the Ron Brown Award.

Diversity and Inclusion

Jan. 10, 2008

Faith in the Workplace

Listen as Ron Saunders, Senior Manager of Working Groups, discusses the research issues facing the upcoming Working Group on Faith in Today's Corporation — Challenging Realities.

Economics

Nov. 14, 2007	Help-Wanted Online Data Series Hear Gad Levanon, Economist at The Conference Board, discuss the new Help-Wanted Online data series, the data they collect and how businesses use it. In addition, Gad provides a brief overview of the broad scope of The Conference Board's Economics program.
Nov. 14, 2007	Consumer Research Center Lynn Franco, Director of The Conference Board's Consumer Research Center, discusses the October Consumer Confidence survey results and Consumer Research Center membership. In addition, Lynn provides a brief overview of the broad scope of The Conference Board's Economics program.

Enterprise Risk Management

Sept. 12, 2007	Managing Reputation Risk This podcast is a discussion with Ellen Hexter, Head of the Enterprise Risk management Center of the Conference Board on the issue of managing reputation risk which is the one of the top ten concerns for CEOs today. Ellen also discusses The Conference Board's Research Working Group on Managing Reputation Risk, which is scheduled to launch in October 2007.
Oct. 6, 2006	Enterprise Risk Management: Beyond Compliance and the Audit Committee A discussion of the rapidly expanding view of enterprise risk management as revealed in a study by The Conference Board.

Ethics and Compliance

Feb. 11, 2008	Leadership Forum: Ethics + Business Performance Shareholders are paying increased attention to how a company does business, and this podcast provides a preview of the unique C-level forum being established to examine the link between ethical leadership and financial performance by identifying effective models for fostering ethical leadership across an organization. Featuring Ronald Berenbeim, Principal Researcher of The Conference Board and Gael O'Brien, Research Fellow, Center for Research Ethics, Bentley College.
Feb. 11, 2008	Working on the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics and Compliance This podcast features Ronald Berenbeim, Principal Researcher of The Conference Board and Joan Dubinsky, Ethics Officer, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and Research Working Group Leader, The Conference Board, discussing the upcoming Conference Board Working Group on how individuals working in human resources and ethics compliance can — and must, in the post-Enron environment — collaborate. The strong response to recent Conference Board conferences and webcasts has shown that many HR and compliance executives at many major companies are already collaborating on this subject.
Sept. 12, 2007	Ethics in Mid-Market Companies Ronald Berenbeim, The Conference Board's resident Ethics expert, discusses global trends in ethics programs in today's company. Among the topics considered are the distinction between ethics and compliance, and the roles of HR and other senior executives in creating an ethical culture in their organization.

HR and Talent Management

January 5, 2009	Change Management Listen to Phillip Clampitt, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Strategy & Hendrickson Professor of Business, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay in the Information Sciences Program and Omar Andrade of The Conference Board as they discuss Change Management and Communication: Using Decision Downloading to Overcome Skepticism, Resistance and Inertia.
Oct. 24, 2008	Employee Engagement John Gibbons, Senior Research Associate in the Management Excellence Research Group, discusses the key points of his upcoming report on Employee Engagement.
Apr. 18, 2008	Growing Talent with Succession Research Working Group of The Conference Board that will help top management plan strategies to grow their business.
Feb. 11, 2008	Strategic Workforce Planning and Global Organization This podcast features the two leaders of The Confernece Board's Working Group on Strategic Workforce Planning and Global Organization, Dr. Mary Young, Senior Research Associate and David Learmond, Executive Fellow in Human Resources. The Working Group will be discussing global issues such as the concerns of whether baby boomer retirements will affect organizations and pressures to effectively manage human capital.
May 17, 2007	Corporate Response to HIV and AIDS Interview with Dr. Henry Silvert, author of the forthcoming report Corporate Response to HIV and AIDS: Company Programs for Employees Living with HIV and AIDS or at Risk of HIV Infection.

Leadership Development

April 18, 2008	Global Leadership Development Maximizing Value in Challenging Times Research Working Group of The Conference Board that will focus on how global leadership is different from domestic leadership.
June 25, 2007	Women's Leadership Conference — Judy Rosener Hear the luncheon presentation of Dr. Judy Rosener, Professor of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California.
June 25, 2007	Women's Leadership Conference — Ginger Graham Hear the keynote presentation of Ginger Graham, former President and CEO of Amylin Pharmaceuticals at The Conference Board's 2007 Women's Leadership Conference held in April 2007 in San Diego., Inc.

Marketing and Communications

Sept. 11, 2005	Using Online Simulations, Podcasting and Blogs to Grow Your Reputation A discussion with Shel Holtz, President, Holtz Communications and Technology, about the importance of using online communication capabilities such as blogs, podcasts and wikipedias in organizations and how it impacts a company's reputation.
Aug. 21, 2005	Merging Two Corporate Reputations Together A conversation with Peter Thonis, Chief Communications Officer, Verizon Communications, discussing communication strategies during a corporate merger.
Aug. 13, 2005	Reputation Strategies and Johnson & Johnson A conversation with Anthony Carter, Vice President, Communications, Johnson & Johnson, about Johnson & Johnson's corporate reputation strategies.

Mid-Market

June 13, 2007	Mid-Market Response to Workforce Preparation Co-Authors Dr. Henry Silvert and Jill Castner-Lotto of the forthcoming report Are they Really Ready to Work? Employers' Perspectives on the Basic Knowledge and Applied Skills of New Entrants to the 21st Century US Workforce for Mid-Markets discuss the highlights of the report.
May 16, 2007	How Some of America's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Revenue Growth A discussion with David G. Thompson about the 7 essential characteristics shared by the fastest-growing firms.

Operations and Business Processes

Oct. 29, 2007	Outsourcing/Offshoring Listen to a discussion featuring The Conference Board's senior advisor on outsourcing/offshoring and Research Director of the Research Working Group on Global Strategic Sourcing and their plans to team up with the Duke University CIBER, ORN.
Mar. 27, 2007	Protecting the Domestic and International Supply Chain Securing your supply chain is of paramount importance in a post-9/11 world. Hear David Saenz, Vice President of Worldwide Security for Levi Strauss & Co, discuss the components of an effective supply chain security plan and draw out valuable lessons from his company's experience.
Jan. 25, 2007	Measuring Security's Contribution to Business Goals Join Thomas Cavanagh, Senior Research Associate at The Conference Board and George Campbell, Managing Partner of the Business Security Advisory Group, LLC for a conversation about recent developments in the business case for measuring security.
Nov. 30, 2006	Strategic Crisis Leadership Bruce Blythe, CEO of Crisis Management International and consultant to the FBI, outlines the essential elements of strategic leadership in high-consequence situations.
Nov. 16, 2006	Security Leadership in the 21st Century Listen to Jerry Brennan, Founder of Security Management Resources Group, discuss the evolving role of the 21st century Chief Security Officer and what the security departments of the future will look like.
Oct. 19, 2006	Corporate Investigations for Non-Security Professionals John D. Thompson, partner in the law firm of Oberman Thompson & Segal, LLC, discusses strategies involved with internal investigations for the non-security professional.
Oct. 16, 2006	Structuring and Managing Remote Work A discussion featuring Peter Linkow, President, WFD Consulting, about how managers of distance work teams are facing a variety of tough new challenges in managing across geographies, time and national culture.
Sept. 13, 2006	Preventing Information Leakage Information security expert Carlos Mena, Chief Information Security Officer, San Disk Corporation, discusses security vulnerabilities and threats to corporate information security, including data protection and privacy, and business continuity and disaster recovery.
Mar. 9, 2006	Executive Protection and Travel Security Bernard Banahan, retired Vice President and Director of Global Security and Loss Prevention for the Motorola Corporation, speaks on the importance of travel security for your company's executives.