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Biography
Mary B. Young
Mary B. Young is Senior Researcher in Human Capital at The Conference Board.
Dr. Young leads The Conference Board program of research on Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) and has been a major contributor to our research on the mature workforce. Trained in organizational behavior and organizational development, she has studied strategic workforce planning's emergence and evolution as a business process in more than 70 companies. Drawing upon skills as a long-time journalist, she has completed 20 case studies describing how companies implement SWP and presented her research findings at scores of corporate meetings in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Her research on SWP is available in four research reports from The Conference Board: Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations (November 2009), Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning (2009), Gray Skies, Silver Linings (2007), and Strategic Workforce Planning (2006).
Young's research on human resource issues has been cited in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, USA Today, Time, Business Week, and National Public Radio's "Morning Edition." With more than 20 years experience in organizational research, she has produced studies for the Center for Organizational Research, the Human Resources Policy Institute, the Work/Family Roundtable, the National League for Nursing, the International Association for Public Management—Human Resources, the American Public Power Association and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
She received her doctorate in organizational behavior from Boston University's Graduate School of Management. She earned a M.Ed. in organizational development at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a B.A. in English from Case Western Reserve University.
Publications by Mary B. Young:
Publications
Executive Action