Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations
This report describes how SWP adds value by helping global companies make better business decisions. It details what it takes for companies to advance from a fledgling effort to a more robust version of SWP.
Jan. 2010

The 2009 Top Executive Compensation Report
This report examines salary, total cash compensation, total compensation, and the mix of compensation elements for the CEO and the five highest-paid executives for specific revenue and industry groups.
Dec. 2009

The 2009 Corporate Contributions Report
Responses to this year's edition of The Conference Board Annual Survey on Corporate Contributions indicate that for companies for which we have multi-year data, U.S. charitable giving declined in FY 2008, while international giving increased.
Dec. 2009

Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value Through Better Decision Making
Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value through Better Decision Making gauges the impact of the financial crisis on FX management practices
Dec. 2009

Protecting Critical Infrastructure: A Cross-Border Action Plan
Canada and the United States share more than the longest common national border on the planet: they also share extensive critical infrastructures, such as electrical grids and transportation and communications systems.
Nov. 2009

Evidence-Based Human Resources
Do people equal profit, and if so, how can companies prove it? Evidence-based human resources (EBHR) provides practitioners with the means to answer these questions.
Nov. 2009

Building Risk Awareness into Performance: Integrating ERM and Performance Management
This report explores the reasons behind the lack of ERM and performance management integration through an examination of the results of a survey of 97 senior executives.
Sept. 2009

The Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce
This report raises several questions concerning the overall effectiveness of workforce readiness training programs.
Aug. 2009

Productivity, Performance, and Progress: Germany in International Comparative Perspective
This study argues that the key to a successful and sustainable growth strategy for any time and place is to find the optimal balance between labour productivity growth and labour input growth.
Aug. 2009

A Perfect Match? How Nonprofits Are Tapping into the Boomer Talent Pool
This report explores the growing trend of nonprofits to recruit boomers and the things both sides need to do to make this very promising relationship work.
Aug. 2009

Frameworks for Integrating Citizenship and Sustainability into Business Strategies and Operations
This report explores the approaches of 11 North American companies with well-established citizenship and sustainability practices.
June 2009

Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning
This report highlights the implementation process for Strategic Workforce Planning---from simply connecting business strategy and HR strategy to becoming an input to business strategy that informs executive decision making.
June 2009

Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite
This report distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.
June 2009

Innovation and US Competitiveness: Reevaluating the Contributors to Growth
This report takes stock of the innovation capabilities of the U.S. economy, including hurdles to maintaining the nation's leadership position, and recommends some means and methods of overcoming those obstacles.
May 2009

Managing Reputation Risk and Reward
This report examines the challenges companies face as they work to safeguard and enhance their reputations among customers, investors, employees, and other stakeholders.
Apr. 2009

Top Executive Compensation in 2008 - Key Findings
This piece summarizes the Top Executive Compensation Report - an annual report which provides and analyzes compensation data for the top five executives as reported in proxy tables based on the new SEC requirements of 2008.
Dec. 2008

Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2008
This annual report analyzes board structure and director compensation information regarding U.S-based public companies.
Dec. 2008

Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location
This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.
Nov. 2008

Hedge Fund Activism: Recommendations for Corporations and Investors
A report of recommendations to corporate directors, executives, and investment professionals regarding the activist role hedge fund managers have been making.
Sept. 2008

Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity — Key Findings
This report shines a spotlight on obesity, and offers some solutions, and the potential rewards and risks of taking action.
May 2008

The 2007 Top Executive Compensation Report - Key Findings
This piece summarizes the Top Executive Compensation Report - an annual report which provides and analyzes compensation data for the top five executives as reported in proxy tables based on the new SEC requirements of 2006.
Apr. 2008

Ready to Innovate: Are Educators and Executives Aligned on the Creative Readiness of the U.S. Workforce?
This report provides the results of surveyed public school superintendents and American business executives (employers) asked to identify and compare their views surrounding creativity.
Mar. 2008

Gray Skies, Silver Linings How Companies Are Forecasting, Managing, and Recruiting a Mature Workforce
Executives in need of frank, bottom-line answers to the questions raised by boomer retirements will find them in this report.
Dec. 2007

Are They Really Ready To Work?
This report defines workforce readiness by examining survey results and interviews with Human Resource and other senior executives.
May 2006