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2012

  1. Conference Board Economics Watch® European View

    January 2012 | Economics Watch Reports

    The Euro Area looks to be in a mild recession

  2. A Perfect Storm: Europe’s Looming Pension Crisis

    January 2012 | Executive Action Report

    Europe’s pension crisis stems from three trends: benefits that are no longer supported by employee contributions, the recent recession, and Europe’s aging population.

  3. Conference Board® Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 2, No. 1

    January 2012 | Periodical

    This periodical publication offers an expert perspective on the implications of current economic conditions on the labor market, with specific focus on the United States, Europe, and emerging markets.

  4. 2011 Strategic Alliances Conference KeyNotes Report

    January 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    Growing Profitable Strategic Alliances in a Complex Global Economy

  5. Corporate Governance Practices for Initial Public Offerings in the United States

    January 2012 | Director Notes

    This report examines the corporate governance practices of 50 U.S. companies at the time of their initial public offerings (IPOs) and finds that pressure to update governance practices at larger companies has had a limited effect on IPO-stage companies.

  6. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    January 2012 | Economics Watch Reports

    Caution, uncertainty, and volatility underscore 2012

  7. Risk Oversight: Should Your Board Have a Separate Risk Committee?

    January 2012 | Director Notes

    This report explores the question of whether the board of directors should establish a separate risk committee, including the factors it must consider, and provides examples to clarify the role and responsibility of a separate risk committee.

  8. Expanded Liability in Unclaimed Property: Are States Going Too Far?

    January 2012 | Council Perspectives

    Aggressive enforcement of unclaimed property laws, along with an expanded definition of what constitutes unclaimed property, is raising the risk profile for organizations.

  9. 2011 Senior Sales Executive Conference KeyNotes Report

    January 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    The 2011 Senior Sales Executive Conference: Sales Enablement Strategies That Drive Business Results

  10. Sweat the Small Stuff to Improve Your Business Forecasts

    January 2012 | Executive Action Report

    While waiting for the clouds to part over worldwide economies, small and midsize businesses can do much to bring greater rigor to their short-term forecasts and eliminate costly errors.

  11. 2011 Succession Management Conference KeyNotes Report

    January 2012 | Conference KeyNotes

    The 2011 Succession Management Conference: Breaking Through Barriers to Achieve the True Potential of Succession Management

2011

  1. Constructing a Data Set on Labour Composition Change

    December 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Boele Bonthuis
    December 2011 - EPWP #11 – 04

  2. Using the Leading Credit IndexTM to Predict Turning Points in the U.S. Business Cycle

    December 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Gad Levanon, Jean-Claude Manini, Ataman Ozyildirim, Brian Schaitkin, and Jennelyn Tanchua
    December 2011 - EPWP #11 – 05

  3. Comprehensive Benchmark Revisions for The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for the United States

    December 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Gad Levanon, Ataman Ozyildirim, Brian Schaitkin, and Justyna Zabinska
    December 2011 - EPWP #11 – 06

  4. 2011 Corporate Security, Business Continuity, and Crisis Management Conference KeyNotes Report

    December 2011 | Conference KeyNotes

    The 2011 Corporate Security, Business Continuity, and Crisis Management Conference—Ten Years after 9/11: Where Are We Now? Where Are We Headed?

  5. On the Level: Strategic Workforce Planning from Micro to Macro

    December 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Strategic workforce planning (SWP) can be deployed at an enterprise level to ensure that a company has the right people in place to execute business strategy. It can also be deployed at more micro or macro levels, depending on a company’s needs.

  6. Ethics Issues and Programs: The Role of the Board

    December 2011 | Research Report

    This report, which is the first released by The Conference Board since 2004 on the subject of director engagement with ethics issues, documents board efforts to deal with the broadening scope of their ethics responsibilities.

  7. StraightTalk®
    Is income inequality slowing down growth?

    December 2011 | StraightTalk®

    From The Conference Board Chief Economist. Includes Global Economic Outlook 2011-2025.

  8. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Human Capital Analytics (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011)

    December 2011 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in human capital analytics.

  9. Board Asia Newsletter

    December 2011 | Periodical

    Quarter Three-Four 2011

  10. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    December 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    U.S. steps up while Europe slips

  11. Activism and the Move toward Annual Director Elections

    December 2011 | Director Notes

    This report documents the extent to which activism pushes corporations to implement annual elections and compares the influence different forms of activism.

  12. Europe’s Great Labor Market Divide

    December 2011 | Executive Action Report

    The gulf between the haves and the have nots in Europe will likely continue to put stress on the future of European unity and trigger even more intense debate about the future of the Euro Area itself.

  13. 2011 Future Leaders Conference KeyNotes Report

    December 2011 | Conference KeyNotes

    The 2011 Future Leaders Conference: Rethinking How We Attract, Identify, and Develop High Potential and Next Generation Leadership Talent

  14. 2011 Executive Coaching Summit KeyNotes Report

    December 2011 | Conference KeyNotes

    The 2011 Executive Coaching Summit: The Presenters Are Legendary; The Lessons Are Leading-Edge

  15. Business and Sustainability in China: Company Responses to a National Priority

    December 2011 | Research Report

    What actions are companies taking in China to support the country's sustainable development imperatives?

  16. CEO Challenge Reflections: How Socio-Economic Change Is Shaping Business Sustainability in China

    November 2011 | Executive Action Report

    For CEOs in China, the challenge of sustainability was ranked higher than anywhere else in the world. But how will business meet this challenge?

  17. 2011 Corporate Contributions Report

    November 2011 | Research Report

    This report is based on the 2011 edition of The Conference Board Corporate Contributions Survey, which gathered data on charitable contributions made by U.S.-based companies in FY2010.

  18. Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting

    November 2011 | Director Notes

    This report examines the concept of integrated reporting and its current state of adoption around the globe.

  19. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    November 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Economy on firmer footing, but sentiment still sour

  20. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 1, No. 2, 2011)

    November 2011 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in talent management.

  21. A Hero Lies in You: CEOs Talk about Heroes and Mentors

    November 2011 | Executive Action Report

    A series of interviews related to The Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2011 makes clear what is highest on the minds of CEOs. Here, they talk about the leaders who have inspired them—and who have served as cautionary figures.

  22. Board Evaluation Process in the UK and Selected Continental European Countries

    November 2011 | Council Perspectives

    This Council Perspectives examines the differences in practices and requirements between several European countries including the UK regarding board evaluations and individual committee evaluations, and includes samples.

  23. Projecting Economic Growth with Growth Accounting Techniques: The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2012 Sources and Methods

    November 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Vivian Chen, Ben Cheng, Gad Levanon, and Bart van Ark
    November 2011 - EPWP #11 – 07

  24. Revisiting Justifications for Board Diversity

    November 2011 | Director Notes

    This report examines empirical data on board diversity and finds that reliance on the business case has not translated into appreciable gains. As such, it suggests that moral and social rationales be reincorporated into strategies for advancing diversity.

  25. StraightTalk®
    Special Issue for All Members: Global Economic Outlook 2012

    November 2011 | StraightTalk®

    From The Conference Board Chief Economist.

  26. 2011 U.S. Director Compensation and Board Practices Report

    November 2011 | Research Report

    This report analyzes findings from a 2011 survey of 334 companies issuing equity securities registered with the U.S. SEC and provides benchmarking information on the compensation awarded to individual board members in FY2010 and on board practices.

  27. CEO Challenge Reflections: On the Record with Fred Keller

    November 2011 | Executive Action Report

    As a follow-up to The Conference Board CEO Challenge™ 2011: Fueling Business Growth with Innovation and Talent and The Conference Board CEO Challenge 2011: Mid-Markets, Fred Keller—CEO of Mich.-based Cascade Engineering—shares his thoughts on the issues.

  28. Strategic Workforce Planning Leader's Bookshelf

    November 2011 | Research Report

    This report briefly describes more than 40 books and articles, and includes brief summaries and information on the topics covered including their level of complexity.

  29. Role of the Board in Fraud Risk Management

    October 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses the role of the board in requiring, overseeing, supporting, and evaluating their organization's fraud risk management program.

  30. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    October 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Growth Still Stuck in the Slow Lane

  31. Constructing a Price Deflator for R&D: Calculating the Price of Knowledge Investments as a Residual

    October 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Carol Corrado, Peter Goodridge, and Jonathan Haskel
    October 2011 - EPWP #11 – 03

  32. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Diversity & Inclusion (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011)

    October 2011 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in diversity and inclusion.

  33. Linked World: How ICT is Transforming Societies, Cultures and Economies

    October 2011 | Research Report

    This report is based on a two-year global research project with the Telefónica Foundation. It aggregates several studies on how information and communication technology has affected societies, economies, cultural relationships, and human interaction.

  34. Linked World: How ICT Is Transforming Societies, Cultures, and Economies

    October 2011 | Executive Summary

    This report is based on a two-year global research project with the Telefónica Foundation. It aggregates several studies on how information and communication technology has affected societies, economies, cultural relationships, and human interaction.

  35. Linked World: How ICT Is Transforming Societies, Cultures, and Economies

    October 2011 | Research Report

    This report is based on a two-year global research project with the Telefónica Foundation. It aggregates several studies on how information and communication technology has affected societies, economies, cultural relationships, and human interaction.

  36. Preparedness in the Private Sector – 2011

    October 2011 | Research Report

    This report is based on a survey of executives regarding their companies’ resilience planning and security planning. The survey asked about companies’ levels of physical security, IT security, business continuity, crisis management, and pandemic planning.

  37. Excess Pay and the Dodd-Frank Clawback

    October 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses excess pay’s cost to investors, explains why most existing clawbacks fall short of what Dodd–Frank is likely to require, and offers guidance for boards seeking to minimize excess pay not reached by Dodd–Frank.

  38. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Strategic Workforce Planning (Vol. 1, No. 1, 2011)

    October 2011 | Human Capital in Review

    The Human Capital in Review series is designed for the busy human capital executive who values filtered and thoughtfully summarized highlights of significant ideas, topics, research, and trends in strategic workforce planning.

  39. Conference Board Economics Watch® European View

    October 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    The Debt Crisis and the Risk Of Recession Are Reinforcing Each Other

  40. Corporate Oversight and Stakeholder Lines of Defense

    October 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Stakeholders are demanding improved oversight in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. This report presents a model for effective corporate oversight.

  41. Assessing Pay for Performance

    October 2011 | Director Notes

    This report explores five interpretations of the “pay for performance” concept, presents a practical way to measure it, and offers questions for directors to consider to assess and improve pay for performance at their company.

  42. Human Capital in Asia-Pacific, 2011-2013

    October 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Rapid growth in the Asia-Pacific region means that companies there are facing challenges in leadership development, talent acquisition, and retention.

  43. CEO Challenge Reflections: Talent Matters

    October 2011 | Executive Action Report

    While CEOs rank talent as a critical challenge to business success, there is disagreement among human capital professionals when it comes to the strategies that best manage and develop this crucial link in the growth chain.

  44. Conference Board® Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 1, No. 1

    October 2011 | Periodical

    This periodical publication offers an expert perspective on the implications of current economic conditions on the labor market, with specific focus on the United States, Europe, and emerging markets.

  45. Sustainability Matters: Why and How Corporate Boards Should Become Involved

    October 2011 | Research Report

    This report highlights issues to consider when approaching the task of overseeing a sustainability strategy.

  46. Get Social: A Guide to Creating Your Company's Social Media Strategy

    October 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Most organizations realize the importance of participating in social media but do not have a formal plan on how to make the most of it. This report discusses specifics and best practices for planning a social media strategy.

  47. CEO Challenge Reflections: Social Media Goes to Work

    October 2011 | Executive Action Report

    The implications of social media in the workplace—for product development, go-to-market strategies, customer relations, corporate branding, and recruiting—are enormous. Why then are so many senior executives reluctant to take the plunge?

  48. Achieving Resilience: A Systems Approach

    September 2011 | Executive Action Report

    A new approach to emergency preparedness is oriented toward systems and seeks resilience based on the realization that it is impossible to protect communities and organizations against crisis in a vacuum.

  49. Achieving Resilience: Planning for Flexibility during Crisis

    September 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Planning and preparation are as essential as ever, but now they must be flexible, incorporating the capacity to respond to unique developments in a crisis.

  50. Achieving Resilience: Establishing Networks—Before the Crisis Comes

    September 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Having a network in place in advance of a crisis can provide a critical boost to achieving resilience.

  51. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    September 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    We are all in this together

  52. Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2011: Mid-Market

    September 2011 | Research Report

    An analysis of the responses to the 2011 CEO Challenge survey from the 114 U.S. firms with revenues of under $1 billion.

  53. Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Governance: What a Difference a Few Years Can Make

    September 2011 | Council Perspectives

    The Chief Environment, Health, and Safety Officers’ Council survey results and analysis underscore a corporate shift of attention to sustainability as a source of business value.

  54. 2011 U.S. Top Executive Compensation Report

    September 2011 | Research 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.

  55. Volunteering- A New Training and Transition Tool

    September 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Challenging times call for companies of all sizes to be more creative about how they do business, and how they inspire and motivate their employees.

  56. SOP Drives Compensation Program Changes to Enhance Pay/Performance Link

    September 2011 | Director Notes

    This report examines recent compensation program changes made by some Fortune 500 companies to enhance the link between pay and performance in preparation for their first say-on-pay votes, and provides recommendations for companies to consider.

  57. U.S. Workers Are Delaying Retirement: Who and Why, and Implications for Businesses

    September 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Gad Levanon and Ben Cheng, September 2011. - EPWP #11 – 02

  58. Board Asia Newsletter

    September 2011 | Periodical

    Quarter One 2011

  59. Effects of M&A Litigation

    August 2011 | Director Notes

    This report analyzes litigation in M&A offers and shows that predeal litigation raises the expected takeover premium received by target company shareholders, more than offsetting the expected fall in the deal completion probability.

  60. On the Record with Stephanie Hickman Boyse

    August 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Following The Conference Board CEO Challenge survey, a number of CEOs volunteered to go “on the record” with The Conference Board to share their thoughts and challenges in more depth. This is a Q&A with the CEO of Michigan-based Brazeway.

  61. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    August 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Downgrade of U.S. Economic Growth

  62. Since the Levees Broke: A Snapshot of New Orleans

    August 2011 | Council Perspectives

    Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, and in the years since, corporate contributions have tackled much more than rebuilding—they have also fostered innovation in the underlying issues of health care, education, poverty, and the environment.

  63. Integrating Developing Countries into the Global Supply Chain

    August 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Large and small developing countries have emerged as the new frontiers of the structural change ushered in by the rise of global production and supply networks.

  64. Broadening the Base for Strategic Workforce Planning: The Value of Cross-Functional Partnerships

    August 2011 | Executive Action Report

    What differentiates leaders who’ve made steady headway with their SWP programs? Often, it’s their ability to partner with other functions and, by doing so, to broaden the base of support for SWP.

  65. Separation of Chair & CEO Roles

    August 2011 | Director Notes

    This report examines some of the academic literature surrounding the debate of whether to separate the chairman and CEO roles and examines other factors that affect board effectiveness.

  66. Making the Business Case for Corporate Philanthropy

    August 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses the issues surrounding corporate philanthropy and provides practical recommendations to companies and boards for increasing the accountability and transparency of corporate giving programs.

  67. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    July 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Hot temperatures, but cool economy

  68. Engaging Business Leaders in Strategic Workforce Planning: A Guide to Effective Conversations

    July 2011 | Executive Action Report

    This guide includes basic questions to drive the initial conversation between the strategic workforce planning (SWP) leader and business leaders.

  69. A Closer Look at Negative Say-on-Pay Votes During the 2011 Proxy Season

    July 2011 | Director Notes

    More than 2,200 Russell 3000 ® Index companies have held say-on-pay votes this annual meeting season. This report analyzes the results of votes held through June 17, 2011, across several metrics.

  70. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: Policy and Development of ICT—The Impact of Public and Regulatory Policy on ICT Sector Performance

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Raul L. Katz, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #1

  71. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: Mobile Communication and Social Capital in Korea and the U.S.— How Usage Patterns Predict Social, C

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Scott W. Campbell, Nojin Kwak and Richard Ling, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #2

  72. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: Who Captures the Benefits of ICT? The Case of Digital Books

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Janet Hao and Randall Weiss, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #3

  73. Towards Comprehensive Measurement of ICT’s Impact: Measuring the Impact of ICT on Health Care

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robbin te Velde, Jesse Bos, and Reg Brennenraedts, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #4

  74. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: The Impact of ICT on the Geographic Distribution of Employment

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Vlad Manole and Randall Weiss, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #5

  75. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: The Global Broadband Bonus: Broadband Internet’s Impact on Seven Countries

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Shane Greenstein and Ryan McDevitt, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #6

  76. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: The Long Tail of Digital Exclusion — A Comparison Between the UK and Chile

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Ellen J. Helsper and Sergio Godoy-Etcheverry, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #7

  77. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: Measuring the Impact of ICT on Public Sector Performance

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robbin te Velde, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #8

  78. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: Measuring the Impact of ICT on Education

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Cor-Jan Jager, Jesse Bos, and Robbin te Velde, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #9

  79. Impact of ICT on Production of Goods and Services: Towards Comprehensive Measurement of ICT’s Impact: Paying Attention to Society and Culture

    July 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Katherine Schinasi and Ivy Schultz, July 2011. - ICTLinkedWorld #10

  80. Employee Engagement in a VUCA World: A Review of Current Research and Its Implications

    July 2011 | Research Report

    This report combines analysis of some of the most important employee engagement research of today and puts it into perspective for members.

  81. Say on Pay in the 2011 Proxy Season: Lessons Learned and Coming Attractions for U.S. Public Companies

    July 2011 | Director Notes

    This Director Notes reviews the results of the inaugural season of shareholder advisory votes under the Dodd-Frank Act through June 23, 2011 and offers recommendations for companies to consider in making their compensation and governance decisions.

  82. Managing Human Capital Risk

    July 2011 | Research Report

    This report presents the results of a survey of 161 companies on the state of their human capital risk assessment and management in answer to five key questions.

  83. 2011 CEO Succession Report

    July 2011 | Research Report

    This report documents and analyzes succession events of chief executive officers (CEOs) of S&P 500 companies.

  84. U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2012

    June 2011 | Research Report

    The latest edition of The Conference Board survey of U.S. salary increase budgets found that these budgets will have a median increase of 3.00 percent in 2011.

  85. It’s about Trust and Training: Examining Your Organization’s Internal Coaching Practice

    June 2011 | Executive Action Report

    This report discusses ways in which an internal coaching program can provide a cost-effective approach for developing talent, as well as the potential obstacles to success posed by issues of training and trust.

  86. Leading Outside—and Inside—the Lines

    June 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Drawing on the work of Jon R. Katzenbach and Zia Khan, this Mid-Market Conversation Starter suggests ways in which informal networks can help address business problems.

  87. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    June 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Scaling back growth expectations

  88. Conference Board Economics Watch® European View

    June 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    The 2011 GDP projection will prove easy to reach. Downside risks exist for 2012.

  89. SEC Enforcement Actions against Outside Directors Offer Reminder for Boards

    June 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses recent cases in light of the SEC’s historical position on offenses by outside directors and offers recommendations for how board members can mitigate their risks.

  90. Conference Board Human Capital in Review: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 1, No. 1 2011)

    June 2011 | Human Capital in Review

    This quarterly publication includes short summaries of important talent management research and articles for the busy human capital executive.

  91. Sleepless in Delhi: What Keeps Indian HR Executives Awake at Night?

    June 2011 | Executive Action Report

    India presents unique business challenges, challenges that a number of human resource executives in India were happy to discuss with The Conference Board.

  92. Answering the 2011 CEO Challenge: Accelerating Growth through Quality

    June 2011 | Council Perspectives

    This Council Perspective examines the role the quality function can play in meeting the top challenges identified in the latest edition of The Conference Board CEO Challenge™, an annual survey of top executives.

  93. Performance 2011: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies

    June 2011 | Research Report

    This report takes a detailed look at the drivers of output growth, comparing the contributions of labor productivity and employment across years and across more than 100 countries.

  94. Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility

    June 2011 | Director Notes

    This report documents some of the potential bottom-line benefits to companies of being attentive to CSR: reducing cost and risk, gaining competitive advantage, developing and maintaining legitimacy and reputational capital, and achieving win-win outcomes

  95. Outbound Mergers and Acquisitions by Indian Firms

    May 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses the legal reforms implemented by the government to help facilitate overseas acquisitions by Indian firms, and the regulatory impediments that still exist to mergers and acquisitions by Indian firms.

  96. It's Not Just Your Children's Facebook Anymore

    May 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Companies that use social media to improve knowledge transfer will see employees benefit from more informed thinking, better ideas, and big steps forward in innovation.

  97. U.S. Workers Delaying Retirement What Businesses Can Learn from the Trends of Who, Where, and Why

    May 2011 | Executive Action Report

    U.S. workers have been working longer and retiring later since the mid-1990s, but the Great Recession has put even greater pressure on workers to stay on the job.

  98. Does CEO Education Matter?

    May 2011 | Director Notes

    This report analyzes data on the education of 1,800 individuals who served as CEOs of Standard & Poor’s Composite 1500 companies to determine the effect of education on CEO turnover and firm performance.

  99. Corporate Governance and Business Preparedness

    May 2011 | Key Findings

    A survey of The Conference Board paints a detailed picture of how businesses are balancing security, business continuity, and operational risk management as part of governance.

  100. Corporate Governance Data

    May 2011 | Periodical

  101. Where Are the Jobs?

    May 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Twenty-one months into the recovery, the U.S. economy has failed to add any jobs despite economic growth.

  102. Board Asia Newsletter

    May 2011 | Periodical

    Quarter Four 2010

  103. Role of CFOs in Material Accounting Manipulations

    May 2011 | Director Notes

    This report investigates the factors that may lead a CFO to engage in accounting manipulations.

  104. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 3 Q1, 2011)

    April 2011 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

  105. Supplier Diversity: Helping to Enhance the Corporate Brand

    April 2011 | Council Perspectives

    This Council Perspectives points out how supplier diversity can create a competitive advantage for an organization and encourages leaders to think beyond the function’s traditional role.

  106. Competitive Intelligence: A Critical Tool for Innovation

    April 2011 | Council Perspectives

    The “next big thing” could hit at any time and revolutionize your industry, leaving you with outdated products, processes, partners, and business models. Competitive intelligence (CI) can provide critical insights into what your competitors are doing.

  107. Assessing the Risks of an Economic Downturn in Japan

    April 2011 | Executive Action Report

    The earthquakes, tsunami, and nuclear disaster in Japan will undoubtedly have a negative effect on Japan’s economy, but there is more to the story.

  108. Building Sustainable Integrity into Organizational Strategy and Operations

    April 2011 | Executive Action Report

    To protect a company's integrity, there must be a strong ethics, compliance, and integrity program in place—one that is fully integrated into the organization’s mission, strategy, and operations.

  109. HR in Asia
    Priorities in Compensation and Benefits

    April 2011 | Council Perspectives

    Global, standardized compensation and benefit programs help companies achieve consistency and convenience. But companies must strike a balance by delivering programs that are also responsive to the varying needs of their far-flung business units.

  110. CEO Challenge 2011: Fueling Business Growth with Innovation and Talent Development

    April 2011 | Research Report

    This year’s report is entirely new and features a fully revised and condensed set of 10 overall challenges (down from 84 in previous surveys) and a more in-depth strategy section that highlights the need for clear organizational alignment, teamwork, and s

  111. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    April 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    U.S. economy to resume moderate growth

  112. Bouncing Back: How Companies Approach Resilience

    April 2011 | Research Report

    This report seeks to better grasp the application of resilience to business preparedness.

  113. Measuring the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility

    April 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses a model for measuring the efficient and effective use of corporate resources allocated to CSR activities.

  114. Creating the Bullet-Proof Business Model

    April 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Four recent high-profile strategic battles provide lessons for small and midsize companies in how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of their own business model and defend it against challengers.

  115. Conference Board Economics Watch® China View

    April 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Tighter credit and weak consumer confidence, both reactions to high inflation, will probably create a drag on growth for Chinese economy in 2011.

  116. Communication Capital, Metcalfe’s Law, and U.S. Productivity Growth

    March 2011 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Carol Corrado, March 2011. - EPWP #11 – 01

  117. What Board Members Should Know About Communicating CSR

    March 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses what to communicate (i.e., message content) and where (i.e., message channel), as well as the major factors (internal and external to the organization) that affect the effectiveness of corporate social responsibility communication.

  118. Poison Pills in 2011

    March 2011 | Director Notes

    This report discusses new trends and provides guidance to boards considering whether to adopt a pill and how to formulate its terms.

  119. Corporate Governance and Business Preparedness

    March 2011 | Research Report

    A survey of The Conference Board paints a detailed picture of how businesses are balancing security, business continuity, and operational risk management as part of governance.

  120. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    March 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    U.S. economy continues on a firmer path of expansion

  121. Conference Board Economics Watch® China View

    February 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    China’s strong growth continues but inflation fears are sparking monetary policy action.

  122. Professionalization of Shareholder Activism in France

    February 2011 | Director Notes

    This report summarizes notable activism developments in France and examines the phenomenon of professionalization with two recent examples: the Suez-Gaz de France and the Atos Origin cases.

  123. Managing Brands in a Topsy-Turvy Marketing Environment

    February 2011 | Executive Action Report

    To create excitement for a new brand, or refresh a tired brand, bring together networks of satisfied customers and user groups to share their experiences and generate word-of-mouth.

  124. Investing in CSR to Enhance Customer Value

    February 2011 | Director Notes

    This report, which is based on the analysis of 163 articles from the most relevant empirical literature on the subject, offers a number of practical recommendations to business leaders embarking in CSR programs for their companies.

  125. Converging Physical and Information Security Risk Management

    February 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Traditionally, physical and information security have operated in their own silos with separate teams and different risks, processes, and budgets. But risks and threats are evolving and becoming interdependent. As new technologies are adopted in the workp

  126. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    February 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Can short-term economic momentum be maintained in the face of strong headwinds?

  127. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q4, 2010)

    February 2011 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

  128. Great Recession and Household Savings

    February 2011 | Executive Action Report

    During recessions or other periods of economic weakness, when any engine of growth is needed, an increase in the household saving rate could slow the pace of recovery. So what will happen to the saving rate in this critical recovery period?

  129. Employers and U.S. Public Education – Facilitating an Open Discussion about the Role of Business in U.S. Public Schools

    February 2011 | Council Perspectives

    A guide to be used by employers to discuss with employees why they invest in education and how employees can engage in those programs as well as become better consumers of education.
    Program Inventory 

  130. Responding to Hurricanes: Lessons for Emergency Preparedness

    February 2011 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action includes issues and checklists for companies who are preparing their own response plans.

  131. Giving the Working Poor a Working Chance

    February 2011 | Council Perspectives

    How can business and the world’s corporations help efforts to alleviate global poverty? And what is the rationale for getting involved?

  132. Right-Sizing Your Board of Directors—A Mid-Market Challenge

    January 2011 | Executive Action Report

  133. Innovation and Intangible Assets Gaining the Competitive Edge in Economic Recovery

    January 2011 | Executive Action Report

    Intangible assets drive innovation and contribute much to a firm’s and a country’s competitive edge in the knowledge economy. It is time for a fresh look at how businesses look at these critical assets.

  134. Risk Oversight Practices: Two Success Stories

    January 2011 | Director Notes

    This report explains how strong alignment of risk understanding and support from the board has been crucial to each company’s performance in challenging times.

  135. Taking Offshoring to the Next Level: The 2009 Offshoring Research Network Corporate Client Survey Report

    January 2011 | Research Report

    This report provides an overview of how the practices associated with various forms of outside sourcing have changed over time. For example, it offers evidence of how companies that offshore innovation practices are no longer driven by cost cutting, but b

  136. Some Thoughts for Boards of Directors in 2011

    January 2011 | Director Notes

    This report highlights a few of the more notable corporate governance issues that boards will face in 2011.

  137. Conference Board Economics Watch® United States View

    January 2011 | Economics Watch Reports

    Stimulus will boost economic growth in 2011, but will it carry through to 2012?

  138. Lean Six Sigma: Improving Performance of Business Support Functions and Services

    January 2011 | Executive Action Report

    This report outlines the application of Lean Six Sigma for enhancing organizational effectiveness and making fact-based decisions that improve customer satisfaction

2010

  1. E-Proxy Reform, Activism, and the Decline in Retail Shareholder Voting

    December 2010 | Director Notes

    This report explores issues that have arisen since the introduction of the new electronic forms of delivering voting materials: the observed shareholder response-rate decline and the impact on activism.

  2. Board Asia Newsletter

    December 2010 | Periodical

    Quarter Three 2010

  3. A Brief Overview of Corporate Governance Reforms in India

    December 2010 | Director Notes

    This report briefly outlines the process undertaken to reform India’s corporate governance laws. It also provides an overview of Clause 49, the pending corporate governance-related provisions in the Companies Bill, and the MCA’s Corporate Governance Volun

  4. Escaping the Sovereign-Debt Crisis: Productivity-Driven Growth and Moderate Spending May Offer a Way Out

    December 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Sovereign debt and fiscal deficits are strangling many advanced economies. Policy choices are complex, but there is an escape strategy that does not require draconian budget cuts or risky debt-financed stimulus spending.

  5. Private Ordering and Proxy Access Rules: The Case for Prompt Attention

    December 2010 | Director Notes

    This report focuses on advance-notice bylaws, director qualification bylaws (such as those setting age standards, term limits, or stock ownership requirements), conduct-of-meeting bylaws, and nominating committee charters.

  6. Good Execution Isn't Just Stuff Leaders Delegate

    December 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Many CEOs rate consistent execution of their firms' strategic objectives as a major concern. This report examines five critical requirements for good execution that can help CEOs achieve the results they expect.

  7. Pay vs. Performance Disclosure: The Case for Prompt Attention

    November 2010 | Director Notes

    The subject of pay versus performance disclosure is expected to take center stage in the upcoming proxy season. This report discusses the issues on which board members should promptly focus their attention.

  8. Under Pressure The Widening Wage Gap between China's Haves and Have-Nots

    November 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Will soaring wages and protesting workers eventually erode one of China's most prominent global economic advantages—its low labor costs?

  9. 2010 U.S. Top Executive Compensation Report

    November 2010 | Research 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.

  10. 2010 U.S. Top Executive Compensation Report

    November 2010 | Key Findings

    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.

  11. Does Your Company Encourage Good Followership?

    November 2010 | Executive Action Report

    It may no longer be an insult to be called a great follower. What can organizations do to foster the right attitudes and skills?

  12. Time to Step Up: Challenges and Opportunities Facing Talent Management

    November 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This report looks at the opportunities and challenges facing the future of talent management and addresses four basic concerns that go the heart of the talent management function's future.

  13. 2010 Institutional Investment Report: Trends in Asset Allocation and Portfolio Composition

    November 2010 | Research Report

    The annual Institutional Investment report provides a comprehensive analysis of the asset growth and portfolio composition of institutional investors operating in the United States.

  14. Leadership as Performance Art

    November 2010 | Executive Action Report

    While acting skills are sometimes useful for leaders of companies, there can be no excuse for dissembling on important cultural values.

  15. Preparing for the 2011 Proxy Season

    November 2010 | Director Notes

    This report discusses the major likely characteristics of the 2011 proxy season as well as a number of practical recommendations to help boards take charge of corporate governance, improve communications, and manage relations with shareholders.

  16. A Strategic Approach to Growing Talent for Succession

    November 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This report describes the fundamentals of a successful GTFS (growing talent for succession) culture, and the basic questions companies must ask as they initiate a GTFS plan.

  17. Best Practices in Managing Information Vendor Portfolios

    November 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This council perspective outlines a set of best practices to help content managers ensure the organization gets the best value for its investment in licensed information resources.

  18. Corporate Misconduct and the Market for Directorships

    November 2010 | Director Notes

    This report analyzes the changes in directorships held by outside board members of 113 public companies involved in a shareholder class-action lawsuit alleging the misrepresentation of information to investors.

  19. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q3, 2010)

    November 2010 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

  20. Handbook on Corporate Political Activity: Emerging Corporate Governance Issues

    November 2010 | Research Report

    This handbook offers an overview of the legal rules and standard practices related to political activity, as well as a discussion of internal oversight of political spending.

  21. Preparedness in the Private Sector - 2010

    October 2010 | Research Report

    This report analyzes the findings of a 2010 survey on business security, and compares them to findings from prior surveys in 2007 and 2009. In 2010 a component to measure integration of the security function with enterprise risk management was added.

  22. Preparedness in the Private Sector - 2010

    October 2010 | Key Findings

    This report analyzes the findings of a 2010 survey on business security, and compares them to findings from prior surveys in 2007 and 2009. In 2010 a component to measure integration of the security function with enterprise risk management was added.

  23. Go Where There Be Dragons

    October 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This report draws from the wisdom of 100+ executives on seven of The Conference Board Councils in Europe, the United States and Asia to define the global forces that are redefining the structure of leadership.

  24. Growing Talent for Succession

    October 2010 | Research Report

    This report is a playbook that explains how every business can lay the foundation for a growing talent (GT) plan.

  25. 2010 U.S. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices Report

    October 2010 | Research Report

    The 2010 U.S. Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices Report analyzes findings from a survey of 279 corporate secretaries administered by The Conference Board in May and June 2010.

  26. Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing
    The European Regulatory Approach

    October 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Analysts estimate that by 2012 the size of the enterprise cloud computing business may reach $80 billion—about 10 percent of the global information technology service and enterprise software market. Despite the benefits expected from this innovation, comp

  27. Retaining Former CEOs on the Board

    October 2010 | Director Notes

    What are the costs and benefits of retaining the former CEO on the board? This Director Notes discusses findings from an analysis of the determinants of the company's decision to offer board membership to the departing CEO.

  28. India’s Demographic Transition: Boon or Bane? A State-Level Perspective

    September 2010 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Utsav Kumar
    September 2010 - EPWP #10 – 03

  29. Closing the Gender Gap: A European Perspective on New Approaches to Women’s Leadership

    September 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Women account for only about 10 percent of board directors in Europe’s top 300 companies and more than two-thirds of the 101 largest firms have no women on their executive committees. With voluntary measures to close the gender gap making little progress,

  30. Treating Contingent Workers as a Strategic Resource

    September 2010 | Executive Action Report

    While the use of temporary help of all kinds has increased, many companies do not have a centralized framework to make the most cost-efficient and strategic use of this new workforce.

  31. Risk Oversight Practices: Insights from Corporate Directors

    September 2010 | Director Notes

    This survey based report highlights a set of concrete emerging best practices for Risk Oversight.

  32. Role of the Board in Risk Oversight

    August 2010 | Director Notes

    This is the first in a series of four studies developed in collaboration with Davis Polk & Wardwell to provide guidelines and examples to member companies of The Conference Board on emerging practices following the SEC enhanced disclosure reform.

  33. Board Leadership Structure

    August 2010 | Director Notes

    This Director Notes is the second in a series of four studies developed in collaboration with Davis Polk & Wardwell to provide guidelines and examples to member companies of The Conference Board on emerging practices following the SEC enhanced disclosure

  34. Board Diversity and Director Qualifications

    August 2010 | Director Notes

    This is the third in a series of four studies developed in collaboration with Davis Polk & Wardwell to provide guidelines and examples to member companies of The Conference Board on emerging practices following the SEC enhanced disclosure reform.

  35. Compensation-Related Risk and Compensation Consultants

    August 2010 | Director Notes

    This is the last in a series of four studies developed in collaboration with Davis Polk & Wardwell to provide guidelines and examples to member companies of The Conference Board on emerging practices following the SEC enhanced disclosure reform.

  36. Mind the Gap: Overcoming Organisational Barriers to Develop Inclusive Leaders

    August 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This report looks at the challenges Diversity and Inclusion (D&I),Talent Management, and Leadership Development professionals face in creating a corporate culture that embraces D&I as a core leadership trait, one that permeates functions and business unit

  37. Fitting the Work to the Worker: Recruiting, Engaging, and Retaining Employees with Disabilities

    August 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This year is the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. What are the barriers to and benefits of hiring and retaining people with disabilities?

  38. Goals and Incentives for a New Day

    August 2010 | Executive Action Report

    With resources scarce and the future uncertain, small and midsize companies are taking advantage of the business lull in 2010 to reset their goals and incentive-reward systems.

  39. Opening up to Open Innovation

    August 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This new Conversation Starter by Howard Muson continues a series of discussions that we have commissioned about the nature of innovation in small- and mid-market firms

  40. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q2, 2010)

    August 2010 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

  41. Setting Strategy for Pensions in the U.S. — Tough Choices and No Easy Answers

    July 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This report, based on discussions at The Conference Board Retirement Roundtable “Sharing Responsibility for Assuring Long-Term Retirement Security” looks at the factors influencing benefit decisions, examines the challenge of making individual responsibil

  42. Is Age Really Just a Number? Investigating Approaches to Employee Engagement

    July 2010 | Research Report

    Regardless of whether there are too few people or too few jobs, one thing doesn’t change: the need to recruit and retain talent that distinguishes an organization.

  43. Is Age Really Just a Number? Investigating Approaches to Employee Engagement

    July 2010 | Key Findings

    Regardless of whether there are too few people or too few jobs, one thing doesn’t change: the need to recruit and retain talent that distinguishes an organization.

  44. On the Selection of Leading Economic Indicators for China

    July 2010 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Bill Adams, Pieter Bottelier, Ataman Ozyildirim, Jing Sima-Friedman, May 2010. - EPWP #10 – 02

  45. Know Your Shareholders: The Use of Cash-Settled Equity Derivatives to Hide Corporate Ownership Interests

    July 2010 | Director Notes

    Regulators across Europe are increasingly aware of the effects of hidden ownership, where investors use cash-settled equity derivatives to eschew disclosure rules while building up stakes in public corporations.

  46. U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2011

    July 2010 | Research Report

    U.S. salary increase budgets remain historically low—for the second straight year the median increase is 2.5 percent.

  47. Security as a Critical Component of Corporate Defense

    July 2010 | Executive Action Report

    The board’s primary responsibility is to provide vision, strategic oversight, and support to a corporate defense program designed to safeguard stakeholder interests.

  48. Risk and Security in Corporate Supply Chain Networks: Moving From Operational to Strategic Concern

    June 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Supply chain risk management is a critical strategic activity that should take center stage in the decision making of any corporation

  49. Sustainability in the Boardroom

    June 2010 | Director Notes

    Despite formal assignment of responsibilities to top business leaders, many companies still lack the structural framework to enable proper director oversight of corporate sustainability.

  50. Euro Area: Looking Through the Turbulence in Financial Markets

    June 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Despite the overwhelming sense of crisis in the Euro Area, recovery from the global recession is still underway.

  51. Supply Chain Benchmarking; Process and Methodology

    June 2010 | Council Perspectives

    Supply chain operations within an organization should be constantly reviewed to identify where improvements can be made.

  52. Harnessing the Power Within: Using Your Employees to Help Deliver the Brand Promise

    May 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This report discusses how creating an internal branding model will help employees understand and connect to your core brand, then communicate that brand message to your customers.

  53. Strategies for Winning Government Business—and Making It Profitable, Too

    April 2010 | Executive Action Report

    How three midsize companies build relationships with federal and state agencies and avoid perils in the contracting process.

  54. Examining the Impact of SEC Guidance Changes on CEO Succession Planning

    April 2010 | Director Notes

    In late 2009, the SEC made a policy change that effectively removes the defense used by companies reluctant to disclose their CEO succession process to shareholders. The change means a new wave of corporate governance scrutiny.

  55. A New Era in Global Anti-Corruption: Governments Get Serious about Enforcement

    April 2010 | Executive Action Report

    The year 2010 has seen a surge in FCPA enforcement, producing a buzz among corporate executives that the old ways of doing business with “a wink and a nod” are over.

  56. Survival Lessons from Family Businesses

    April 2010 | Executive Action Report

    What accounts for the longevity and success over time- of these multi-generational family businesses? A Mid-market Conversation Starter.

  57. Up in the Air / Down to Earth

    April 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Is there a more deflating pronouncement to hear from your boss than "I’m going to start incorporating humor in my staff meetings?" A Mid-market Conversation Starter.

  58. Investor Engagement in Europe in the Wake of the Shareholder Rights Directive Implementation

    April 2010 | Director Notes

    This report briefly outlines major governance issues that, in light of the new legal and economic environment, the boards of European public companies should consider, especially in connection with their general meetings.

  59. Answering the CEO Challenge: How Quality Can Drive Profitable Growth Across the Organization

    April 2010 | Council Perspectives

    Results of The Conference Board 2010 CEO Challenge survey point to an increased global focus on corporate reputation for quality, one of the original drivers of the quality management movement.

  60. Role of Competitive Intelligence in Driving Growth

    April 2010 | Council Perspectives

    As companies emerge from a recession mentality they need to start priming for a return to growth

  61. Financial Services Offshoring: Moving Toward Fewer Captives and Global Cost Competitiveness

    March 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Financial services companies show greater interest than other sectors in contracting with large international providers and becoming more cost competitive by moving operations to lower labor cost locations

  62. 2010 Executive Coaching Survey

    March 2010 | Research Report

    This survey by The Conference Board Council on Executive Coaching focuses on external coaching practices as well as the growing use of internal coaching

  63. Increasing U.S. Business Investment in Postsecondary Credentialing for New Workforce Entrants

    March 2010 | Executive Action Report

    Can businesses be persuaded to invest in tomorrow's workforce through increased postsecondary credentials?

  64. Is the Pressure Easing? The 2010 Philanthropy Agenda

    March 2010 | Executive Action Report

    The economic downturn took its toll in the U.S. corporate philanthropy arena but the negative impact seen in 2009 may have reached its peak.

  65. 2009 Directors' Compensation and Board Practices Report

    March 2010 | Research Report

    This report analyzes director compensation and board structures in U.S.-based public companies based on proxy data through May 2009 from 2,436 companies and the results of a 2009 survey of corporate secretaries by The Conference Board.

  66. Shareholder Activism Report and Resource Portal

    March 2010 | Research Report

    The Shareholder Activism Report provides corporations with the tools required to understand their shareholder base, assess gaps and vulnerabilities that could make the company a target, and ultimately respond to possible requests for change.

  67. Labor Market Transitions: from Recession to Recovery

    March 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This report explores the factors in a recovery that drive the employment level and the unemployment rate. It offers an analysis of where the U.S. labor market stands and where it may be headed.

  68. Cracking the Financial Code

    March 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This report is an issue-specific excerpt from Council Perspectives (CP-015) Corporate Brands: Meeting the Challenges of Changing Times.

  69. Corporate Brands: Strategies for the New Normal

    March 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This report is an issue-specific excerpt from Council Perspectives (CP-015) Corporate Brands: Meeting the Challenges of Changing Times.

  70. Social Media and Word-of-Mouth Marketing

    March 2010 | Council Perspectives

    What will the operating landscape - the new normal - look like post-recession? It will be a tougher place to manage a corporate brand. Companies simply won't be able to do things the way they always have. But that may not be such a bad thing.

  71. CEO Challenge 2010: Top 10 Challenges

    February 2010 | Research Report

    Respondents to the latest edition of the annual survey of CEOs, presidents, and chairmen indicate that growth issues will be their top challenges for 2010.

  72. Does Your Company Need a Don’t Do it List?

    February 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This Conversation Starter – the first in a new series of short provocative pieces commissioned especially for our mid-market members – suggests some ways that small- and mid-sized businesses can focus better on what really needs to be done.

  73. Getting Fit For Leaner Times

    February 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This Mid-Market Conversation Starter considers the possibility of lateral growth for an entire company.

  74. Solving the Customer’s Price Issues.

    February 2010 | Executive Action Report

    This Mid-Market Conversation Starter gives you a couple of new perspectives from which to think about solving customer price issues.

  75. Reengaging Lost Customers

    February 2010 | Executive Action Report

    What can be done to win back customers that have proven loyal in the past and who may account for a significant portion of profits? A Mid-market Conversation Starter.

  76. Ready or Not: Companies and the Sustainability Tipping Point

    February 2010 | Executive Action Report

    The challenge for companies is how to make sustainability-centric approaches deliver not only on the financial bottom line but also on a broader platform of ecological and social accountabilities and goals that make up the sustainability blend.

  77. Directors' Duties under the New SEC Rules on Disclosure Enhancement

    February 2010 | Director Notes

    This report discusses the new SEC rules and reform in detail and touches on the implications for boards of directors.

  78. Case for Businesses to Invest in Post-Secondary Credentials

    February 2010 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Chris Woock, February 2010 . - EPWP #10 – 01

  79. Duty to Monitor under Delaware Law: from Caremark to Citigroup

    February 2010 | Director Notes

    Have corporate governance laws struck the right balance between risk taking and risk mitigation? This report provides an overview of Delaware law developments on the fiduciary duty to monitor.

  80. Corporate Brands Meeting the Challenges of Changing Times

    February 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This report, based on a September 2009 meeting of The Conference Board Council on Corporate Brand Management, discusses the challenges facing the corporate brand and what the new operating landscape—the new normal—will look like once the recession ends.

  81. U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2010—Winter Update

    January 2010 | Research Report

    Revised projections for U.S. Salary increase budgets in 2010 have dipped below 3 percent for the first time in more than two decades, barely staying ahead of The Conference Board’s forecasted inflation rate.

  82. 2010 Productivity Brief: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies

    January 2010 | Executive Action Report

    The recession left its mark on global productivity, which fell in 2009. With recovery expected in 2010, advanced economies will see renewed productivity gains but continue to shed workers.

  83. From Compliance Governance to Strategic Governance

    January 2010 | Director Notes

    With both companies and investors under pressure and looking for redemption, the 2010 annual meeting season will be a shadow referendum on the crisis and an inflection point in the evolution of corporate governance.

  84. Directors’ Duties and the Pursuit of Social Investments

    January 2010 | Director Notes

    This report examines the implications of sustainability on business corporations and on the body of law that governs them.

  85. Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations

    January 2010 | Research Report

    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.

  86. Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations

    January 2010 | Key Findings

    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.

  87. I Can’t Get No...Job Satisfaction, That Is

    January 2010 | Research Report

    In the 2009 edition of an annual job satisfaction survey conducted for The Conference Board, only 45 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with their jobs

  88. Diversity and Inclusion: Global Challenges and Opportunities

    January 2010 | Council Perspectives

    This report, which is based on a joint meeting of The Conference Board Diversity and Inclusion Councils, offers insights into both the external and internal hurdles companies face when they try to implement a global diversity program.

  89. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 2 Q1, 2010)

    January 2010 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

2009

  1. A Global Barometer for Measuring Employee Engagement

    December 2009 | Research Report

    This report shows that a robust measure of employee engagement can be constructed with just eight basic questions—termed The Conference Board Employee Engagement Barometer.™

  2. 2009 Top Executive Compensation Report

    December 2009 | Research 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.

  3. 2009 Top Executive Compensation Report

    December 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  4. 2009 Corporate Contributions Report

    December 2009 | Research 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.

  5. 2009 Corporate Contributions Report

    December 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  6. Clearing Paths for Critical Foreign Talent to Work in the United States

    December 2009 | Executive Action Report

    The future growth of many smaller businesses may depend upon recruiting highly skilled foreign workers for key jobs. That means becoming better acquainted with the complexities of the immigration code.

  7. 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics: Reflections from The Conference Board

    December 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action report contains insights from expert researchers at The Conference Board that link Elinor Ostrom’s and Oliver Williamson’s work to today’s business concerns.

  8. Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value Through Better Decision Making

    December 2009 | Key Findings

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

  9. Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value Through Better Decision Making

    December 2009 | Research Report

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

  10. Supplier Diversity in the 21st Century

    December 2009 | Council Perspectives

    Today the the main task of supplier diversity executives is ensuring that the organizational commitment remains intact during turbulent economic times.

  11. Going Non-traditional to Create a Successful Shared Services Organization

    December 2009 | Council Perspectives

    Budget squeezes and demands for even greater cost savings are forcing shared services organizations to look at non-traditional approaches to help hold the line and improve efficiency.

  12. Ethics & the Board: Integrating Integrity into Business Strategy

    December 2009 | Council Perspectives

    This report provides a 360-degree, high-level overview of "touch points" between issues of business integrity and the role of the governing body of a business.

  13. Impact of Workforce Reductions on Layoff “Survivors”

    November 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action features data on how layoffs were conducted, what support is being offered to employees who are leaving and who are staying, and some write-in comments on how respondents’ roles and companies are changing.

  14. Protecting Critical Infrastructure: A Cross-Border Action Plan

    November 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  15. Social Networking: How Companies Are Using Web 2.0 to Communicate with Employees

    November 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Companies are revamping their intranets to mirror the function and applications of social networking and they are seeing benefits such as keeping work-related ideas inside company firewalls and increased employee engagement

  16. Protecting Critical Infrastructure: A Cross-Border Action Plan

    November 2009 | Research Report

    Much of the critical infrastructure on which the citizens of the United States and Canada depend—transportation, energy, and communications systems, among others—exists on both sides of the border.

  17. Director Notes: The Role of the Board in Risk Oversight—Adapting to Regulatory Developments and Emerging Practices

    November 2009 | Director Notes

    This report highlights a range of considerations for directors as they approach the assessment and oversight of their risk management programs.

  18. Evidence-Based Human Resources

    November 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  19. Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance - The Need for Collaboration

    October 2009 | Research Report

    The publication pursues cultural and organizational issues that may limit this collaboration, human resources' potential leadership role, and ways of introducing metrics into the equation.

  20. 2009 Institutional Investment Report

    October 2009 | Research Report

    The Institutional Investment report, which is released annually in the fall, is the most comprehensive analysis of the asset growth and portfolio composition of institutional investors operating in the United States.

  21. Recession Lessons for Mid-Market CFOs: Successfully Obtaining Loans in the New World of Credit

    September 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Even though signs of an economic recovery are emerging, recession challenges and a shutdown of easy credit have changed the lending world for CFOs of small- and mid-sized firms

  22. Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Leading the Public Company to Full Recovery

    September 2009 | Research Report

    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.

  23. Corporate Governance Handbook: Legal Standards and Board Practices (Third Edition)

    September 2009 | Book

    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.

  24. Conference Board Task Force on Executive Compensation

    September 2009 | Research Report

    The Conference Board convened the Task Force on Executive Compensation in March 2009 to address the loss of public trust in the processes for oversight of executive compensation.

  25. Building Risk Awareness into Performance: Integrating ERM and Performance Management

    September 2009 | Research Report

    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.

  26. Building Risk Awareness into Performance: Integrating ERM and Performance Management

    September 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  27. U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2010

    August 2009 | Research Report

    Salary increase budgets were hit hard in 2009. The good news for 2010 — budgets are projected to be higher. The bad news — the forecasted increase, at 3 percent, is the lowest in 25 years.

  28. Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce

    August 2009 | Research Report

    This report raises several questions concerning the overall effectiveness of workforce readiness training programs.

  29. Will You Want to Hire Your Own Kids? (Will Anybody Else?)

    August 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Workforce entrants are caught between an educational system that teaches and measures one set of skills and a rapidly evolving workplace that demands another. But who will close the gap?

  30. Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce

    August 2009 | Key Findings

    This report raises several questions concerning the overall effectiveness of workforce readiness training programs.

  31. Role of the Board in Turbulent Times... CEO Succession Planning

    August 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Management succession is one of the most critical strategic risks a corporation faces and a favorite topic of discussion on the role of the board in business crises.

  32. Productivity, Performance, and Progress: Germany in International Comparative Perspective

    August 2009 | Research Report

    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.

  33. Productivity, Performance, and Progress: Germany in International Comparative Perspective

    August 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  34. A Perfect Match? How Nonprofits Are Tapping into the Boomer Talent Pool

    August 2009 | Research Report

    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.

  35. A Perfect Match? How Nonprofits Are Tapping into the Boomer Talent Pool

    August 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  36. Relieving Pressures to Eliminate Jobs

    July 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Smaller companies are finding ways to "redeploy" employees rather than lay them off. Three models for surviving recessions without losing your investment in human capital.

  37. Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning

    June 2009 | Research Report

    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.

  38. Frameworks for Integrating Citizenship and Sustainability into Business Strategies and Operations

    June 2009 | Research Report

    This report explores the approaches of 11 North American companies with well-established citizenship and sustainability practices.

  39. Frameworks for Integrating Citizenship and Sustainability into Business Strategies and Operations

    June 2009 | Key Findings

    This report explores the approaches of 11 North American companies with well-established citizenship and sustainability practices.

  40. Ethics and Compliance Enforcement Decisions – the Information Gap

    June 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Senior executives and corporate directors want to know whether companies have "received credit" (i.e., avoided prosecution or obtained sentence reductions) for having effective ethics and compliance programs - but such information is in short supply.

  41. Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning

    June 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  42. Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Responding to Unsolicited Takeover Offers

    June 2009 | Executive Action Report

    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.

  43. Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite

    June 2009 | Research Report

    This report distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.

  44. Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite

    June 2009 | Key Findings

    This report distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.

  45. Evidence-Based Human Resources: A Practitioner's Guide

    June 2009 | Research Report

    This guide to Evidence-Based Human Resources provides practitioners with real live examples from early adopters of this innovative approach to human capital management.

  46. On the Record with Barry Melancon

    June 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Barry Melancon, President and CEO of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, discusses some of the successful initiatives that the AICPA has taken to build a strong pipeline for the accounting profession.

  47. Mission Accomplished? What Every Leader Should Know about Survivor Syndrome

    June 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action report explores the concept of "survivor syndrome," how it materializes, and what to do about it.

  48. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 1 Q3-4, 2009)

    June 2009 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

  49. Shift in U.S. Policy on Climate Change Opens a New Era for Business

    May 2009 | Executive Action Report

    It's no longer business as usual when it comes to climate change. A significant change of direction for U.S. regulatory policy on the issue will eventually affect all of business.

  50. CEO View . . .Managing through the Global Financial Crisis

    May 2009 | Executive Action Report

    CEOs of five of the world's leading companies predict that the current global financial crisis will leave its mark on how business is done in the future. But how, to what degree, and for how long?

  51. Waddayaknow? Knowledge Management Can Be an Organization's Key to Survival

    May 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action report uses three case studies to build a business case for implementing Knowledge Management, and provides tips for making KM work.

  52. Key Questions in Pandemic Planning

    May 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This report addresses questions of concern to business managers across sectors, industries, and regions in light of the current resurgence of a global pandemic health threat.

  53. Potential Economic Impact of the 2009 A(H1N1) Influenza (Swine Flu) Pandemic

    May 2009 | Executive Action Report

    While it's too early to determine the ultimate scope of the A(H1N1) influenza pandemic, a comparison to the 2003 SARS outbreak shows the economic impact may be short-lived and will not significantly alter long-term trends in global macro economic activity

  54. Innovation and US Competitiveness: Reevaluating the Contributors to Growth

    May 2009 | Research Report

    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.

  55. Innovation and US Competitiveness: Reevaluating the Contributors to Growth

    May 2009 | Key Findings

    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.

  56. A Leadership Prescription for the Future of Quality

    May 2009 | Research Report

    This report, created by The Conference Board Quality Council, looks at the future role of quality throughout the enterprise.

  57. SWP Quarterly Literature Review for Human Capital Professionals (Vol 1 Q2, 2009)

    May 2009 | Strategic Workforce Planning in Review

    The Strategic Workforce Planning Quarterly (SWPQ) is a quarterly review of recent literature related to Strategic Workforce Planning. The articles come from magazines, reports, blogs and other sources. The reviews summarize the main points of each article

  58. A Leadership Prescription for the Future of Quality

    May 2009 | Council Perspectives

    This report, created by The Conference Board Quality Council, looks at the future role of quality throughout the enterprise.

  59. Action Plans for Dealing With a Global Pandemic

    May 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This report summarizes the business and health lessons from previous epidemics and provides important insights to managers about dealing with today's pandemic-related issues.

  60. Managing Reputation Risk and Reward

    April 2009 | Key Findings

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

  61. Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Avoiding Shareholder Activism

    April 2009 | Executive Action Report

    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.

  62. How to Compete and Win In a Broken Economy

    March 2009 | Executive Action Report

    While many small and midsize firms are struggling to survive, stronger companies will find opportunities to improve their competitive position.

  63. Managing Reputation Risk and Reward

    March 2009 | Research Report

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

  64. Changing Attitudes to Work - What Should HR Do?

    March 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Participants at The Conference Board’s European Human Resources Council Summit issue a set of management recommendations to deal with changing work attitudes.

  65. Changing Attitudes to Work - What Should HR Do?

    March 2009 | Council Perspectives

    Participants at The Conference Board’s European Human Resources Council Summit issue a set of management recommendations to deal with changing work attitudes.

  66. Rising Wages: Has China Lost Its Global Labor Advantage?

    March 2009 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Dennis Tao Yang, Vivian Chen, Ryan Monarch, March 2009. - EPWP #09 – 03

  67. Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Overseeing Internal Investigations

    February 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This report provides boards of directors of SEC-reporting companies with guidance to consider when confronting material evidence of internal misconduct or the prospect of investigations by the federal government or a self-regulatory organization.

  68. Tighten Your Supply Chain to Wring Out Costs

    January 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This report features insights and practical advice from corporate executives and supply-chain experts, and helpful suggestions for recruiting logistic specialists.

  69. Assessing Offshoring Risks

    January 2009 | Research Report

    This report offers an overview of several of the critical issues associated with offshoring, ranging from what to consider during initial planning to oversight of ongoing relationships with vendors.

  70. A Crisis of Confidence

    January 2009 | Executive Action Report

    Despite ongoing concerns that the current economic crisis could end up resembling The Great Depression, data so far shows that this recession is in far better shape than the circumstances of 1929.

  71. Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Assessing Corporate Strategy

    January 2009 | Executive Action Report

    This report provides U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting companies with a checklist of issues that their board members, in collaboration with top executives, should consider addressing.

  72. Cost Competitiveness of the Manufacturing Sector in China and India: An Industry and Regional Perspective

    January 2009 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Bart van Ark, Abdul Azeez Erumban, Vivian Chen, Utsav Kumar, January 2009. – EPWP #09 – 02

  73. Some Recent Changes in Economic Growth, Cycles and Volatility

    January 2009 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Ataman Ozyildirim and Victor Zarnowitz, January 2009. - EPWP #09 – 01

2008

  1. Preparedness in the Private Sector

    December 2008 | Research Report

    This report offers baseline metrics that are broadly representative of the level of preparedness among U.S. businesses, and are further broken down by size of business, type of ownership, and industry type.

  2. Top Executive Compensation in 2008

    December 2008 | Research Report

    This annual report provides and analyzes compensation data for the top five executives as reported in proxy tables based on the new SEC requirements of 2008.

  3. Top Executive Compensation in 2008 - Key Findings

    December 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.

  4. 2008 Corporate Contributions Report

    December 2008 | Research Report

    This annual survey indicates that charitable giving by companies and corporate foundations grew at a moderate rate in FY 2007 and outpaced corporate profits.

  5. Salary Increase Budgets 2009: Financial Crisis Edition

    December 2008 | Executive Action Report

    The continuing negative economic growth forecasted well into 2009 is having an impact on compensation decisions in real-time.

  6. Accounting for the Knowledge Economy

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Charles Hulten, December 2008. - EPWP #08 - 13

  7. Entrepreneurs, Inventors and the Growth of the Economy

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by William J. Baumol, December 2008. - EPWP #08 - 12

  8. Exploring Innovation with Firm Level Data

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Samuel Kortum, December 2008. - EPWP #08 - 11

  9. Historical Foundations of American Technology

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Gavin Wright, December 2008. - EPWP #08 - 10

  10. Immigration and Labor Force Trends

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by B. Lindsay Lowell, December 2008. - EPWP #08 - 09

  11. Innovation as Viewed from Within the Corporation

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Jim Lichtenberg and Christopher Woock, December 2008. - EPWP #08 - 08

  12. Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices in 2008

    December 2008 | Research Report

    This annual report analyzes board structure and director compensation information regarding U.S-based public companies.

  13. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2008

    December 2008 | Key Findings

    This annual report analyzes board structure and director compensation information regarding U.S-based public companies.

  14. Technological Change and Earnings Polarization: Implications for Skill Demand and Economic Growth

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by David Autor, December 2008. - EPWP #08 – 07

  15. dynamics of spatial agglomeration in China: an empirical assessment

    December 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Ana Isabel Moreno-Monroy, December 2008. - EPWP #08 – 06

  16. Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Overseeing Risk Management and Executive Compensation

    December 2008 | Executive Action Report

    This report highlights "pressure points" for boards to consider, including practical actions that can be followed to help ensure directors fully meet their fiduciary responsibilities toward shareholders.

  17. How Effective Information Services Can Contribute to the Bottom Line

    December 2008 | Executive Action Report

    The five case studies in this report demonstrate how having the right information at the right time and in the right format can create a competitive advantage and help top executives more effectively manage the bottom line.

  18. How Effective Information Services Can Contribute to the Bottom Line

    December 2008 | Council Perspectives

    The five case studies in this report demonstrate how having the right information at the right time and in the right format can create a competitive advantage and help top executives more effectively manage the bottom line.

  19. CEO Challenge 2008: Top 10 Challenges – Financial Crisis Edition

    November 2008 | Research Report

    This special Financial Crisis Edition highlights differences between the original CEO Survey responses and the updated responses, and compares results between the United States, Europe, and Asia.

  20. Swimming with the Big Fish

    November 2008 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action tailored to the needs of Mid-Market members of The Conference Board presents constructive advice for businesses that are competing with or seeking to do business with Fortune 500 companies.

  21. Can They Take It? What Happens When Older Employees Work Overtime

    November 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Overtime is a key to profitability for many employers, and a boost to the paychecks of their employees. But is there a concomitant cost when, as is often the case, senior employees work extra hours?

  22. Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location

    November 2008 | Research Report

    This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.

  23. Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location

    November 2008 | Key Findings

    This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.

  24. Business Cycles in the Euro Area Defined with Coincident Economic Indicators and Predicted with Leading Economic Indicators

    November 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Ataman Ozyildirim, Brian Schaitkin, Victor Zarnowitz, November 2008. - EPWP #08 – 04

  25. Innovate Today, Grow Tomorrow

    October 2008 | Executive Action Report

    In a down economy, companies can't afford to mark time. Three midsize firms are seizing the moment to explore ideas for new products and invent new business models.

  26. Managing and Measuring Return on Marketing Investment

    October 2008 | Research Report

    This report documents the research findings of The Conference Board's Working Group on Managing and Measuring Return on Marketing Investment (MROI).

  27. Precision Marketing: Five Ways to Make Better Marketing Investment Decisions

    October 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Five principles are presented that can help companies make better marketing decisions by refocusing their concentration and perception of customer behavior — and in some ways redirecting their delivery investments.

  28. Ready to Innovate: Are Educators and Executives Aligned on the Creative Readiness of the U.S. Workforce?

    October 2008 | Research Report

    This report presents the results of a survey of executives and school superintendents, and offers an overview of the current efforts both communities are making to encourage creativity in schools and workplaces.

  29. Inside the Mind of the CEO: Careful What You Wish For

    September 2008 | Executive Action Report

    A look at the issues that are keeping corporate bosses up at night, and insight into how CEOs make the decisions they do.

  30. Hedge Fund Activism: Findings and Recommendations for Corporations and Investors

    September 2008 | Research Report

    This report contains findings and recommendations of the Research Working Group on Hedge Fund Activism instituted by The Conference Board in May 2007.

  31. Hedge Fund Activism: Recommendations for Corporations and Investors

    September 2008 | Key Findings

    A report of recommendations to corporate directors, executives, and investment professionals regarding the activist role hedge fund managers have been making.

  32. Promoted to Fail? How Executive Coaching Can Improve Performance in Newly Promoted Executives

    September 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Promotion to a new position with increased, often corporatewide responsibilities can be a tremendous challenge. The following narrative explains how executives in one organization used coaching to prevent a manager from "derailing" in a new position.

  33. Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies

    September 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.

  34. 2008 Institutional Investment Report

    September 2008 | Research Report

    This report tracks the influence that major categories of institutional investors have on U.S. equity markets and on the ownership structure of U.S. corporations.

  35. Huddled Masses? Why Helping Immigrants Helps Companies

    September 2008 | Council Perspectives

    Immigration is a hot-button issue. When it comes to corporate philanthropy, the target should be immigrant integration. The payoff to both business and society can be handsome.

  36. Leadership, Governance, and Accountability: A Pathway to a Diverse and Inclusive Organization

    August 2008 | Research Report

    This report has profiled organizations that have strategically aligned diversity and inclusion practices with general business goals.

  37. On The Record With Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal

    August 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Jose Antonio Fernandez Carbajal, CEO of FEMSA, S.A. de C.V., Monterrey, Mexico, shares his views on the importance of having multicultural and multilingual talent as well as protecting a company's intellectual property.

  38. Salary Increase Budgets Holding Steady for 2009

    August 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Companies are responding to a sluggish economy by remaining disciplined on labor costs. Salary increase budgets for 2008 are below 4 percent and seem destined to remain near that level in 2009.

  39. 2008 Executive Coaching Fee Survey

    August 2008 | Research Report

    This report offers an analysis of the rates organizations pay for executive coaching services.

  40. Bridging the Logistical Divide: Integration of Poor Countries in Global Supply Chains

    August 2008 | Executive Action Report

    This report analyzes the reasons behind the lagging development of the world's poorest countries and offers some solutions for conquering the divide to help those nations achieve sustainable growth.

  41. 2008 Executive Coaching Fee Survey

    August 2008 | Council Perspectives

    This report offers an analysis of the rates organizations pay for executive coaching services.

  42. Evidence-Based HR in Action

    July 2008 | Research Report

    This report provides in-depth case studies from four organizations that employ evidence-based approaches to their human capital management.

  43. On the Record with George W. Buckley

    July 2008 | Executive Action Report

    The chairman, president, and CEO of 3M Company, discusses how private equity firms and public companies are swapping roles and the increasing importance of close-to-market manufacturing.

  44. On The Record with Ivan Seidenberg

    July 2008 | Executive Action Report

    The CEO of Verizon Communications, Inc., New York, New York, explains the importance of developing global managerial talent and implementing cost control methods.

  45. Profit in Smarter Pricing

    July 2008 | Executive Action Report

    While holding the line on prices is a constant battle, small and midsize companies sometimes ignore the positive role that pricing can play as a lever of profit.

  46. Bridging the Gaps: How to Transfer Knowledge in Today's Multigenerational Workplace

    July 2008 | Research Report

    This report/guide discusses the dynamics of knowledge transfer and explains how to apply any of 15 methods for facilitating the flow of information and insight from those who have it to those who need it.

  47. Women's Leadership: Revitalizing Women’s Initiatives

    July 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Key indicators of gender in the workplace suggest that women's advancement in corporate America has plateaued or even slipped over the past few years. Still, many companies remain committed to initiatives designed to support women in the workplace.

  48. Measuring Changes in Competitiveness in Chinese Manufacturing Industries Across Regions in 1995 – 2004: An Unit Labor Cost Approach

    July 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Vivian W. Chen, Harry X. Wu, Bart van Ark, June 2008. - EPWP #08 – 03

  49. On the Record with J. Doug Pruitt

    July 2008 | Executive Action Report

    The CEO of Sundt Construction, Tempe, Arizona, explains the importance of managing change, fostering innovation and the need for diversity and multi-generational knowledge sharing in today's competitive business environment.

  50. Smart Sourcing: A Boost to Sourcing Value Creation

    June 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Why do so many sourcing initiatives fail to create the value the organization expected? In many cases, it's because managers lack a true understanding of the resources necessary and the risks that are involved.

  51. Intangible Capital and the Market to Book Value Puzzle

    June 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Charles Hulten and Janet Hao, June 2008. - EPWP #08 – 02

  52. On the Record with Jouko Karvinen

    June 2008 | Executive Action Report

    In this exclusive in-depth interview, Jouko Karvinen, CEO of Stora Enso, Helsinki Finland, explains the importance of finding qualified managerial talent and planning for management succession.

  53. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2007

    June 2008 | Research Report

    This annual report reflects the changes in director compensation reporting required by the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules of 2006.

  54. Growing Beyond Oil: Productivity, Performance, and Progress in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council

    June 2008 | Research Report

    This report is part of a major research program on productivity, performance and progress in the Gulf Cooperation Council region which The Conference Board is running in conjunction with Gulf Investment Corporation (GIC).

  55. Strategic Human Capital Measures: Orientation, Accountability, and Communication

    June 2008 | Research Report

    This report illustrates how companies are employing human capital metrics and the potential impact of these new measurements.

  56. Harnessing the Perfect Storm: Business Executives in Mid-Size Companies Are Seizing Green Opportunities

    May 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Mid-size businesses that may have only considered taking small affordable steps toward energy efficiency or that originally balked at government regulation are actively seeking ways to become environmentally friendly.

  57. Shifting the Focus: Updating Your Work-Life Approach to Integrate Employee Engagement and Talent Management

    May 2008 | Executive Action Report

    In order to engage and retain employees, companies will need to modernize their work-life approach. This means moving beyond flex-time and taking a holistic approach.

  58. Company Approaches to Green Products and Services: What's Working and What's Not

    May 2008 | Executive Action Report

    How can companies use the growing customer demand for so-called green products to their business advantage while minimizing financial and reputational risk?

  59. Corporate Responses to Humanitarian Disasters: The Mutual Benefits of Private-Humanitarian Cooperation

    May 2008 | Research Report

    This report provides a detailed overview of the new model of corporate-humanitarian cooperation.

  60. Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners

    May 2008 | Research Report

    This report sets out a new and unique competency model for 21st century D&I practioners.

  61. Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity — Key Findings

    May 2008 | Key Findings

    This report shines a spotlight on obesity, and offers some solutions, and the potential rewards and risks of taking action.

  62. Speaking with Authority—the Case for Teaching English Language Proficiency on the Job

    May 2008 | Executive Action Report

    As foreign-born workers become a larger share of the overall U.S. workforce and companies rely more and more on immigrant communities to supply their labor, employers are going to have to deal with language limitations in one way or another.

  63. Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners

    May 2008 | Council Perspectives

    This report sets out a new and unique competency model for 21st century D&I practioners.

  64. Coordinating Business Preparedness: Managing Public and Private Efforts

    April 2008 | Executive Action Report

    An effective partnership between the public and private sectors is essential to ensure the resilience of America's critical infrastructure.

  65. Benchmarking Business Preparedness: Plans, Procedures, and Implementation of Standards

    April 2008 | Executive Action Report

    This report reveals the preparedness and business continuity practices put into place by a wide range of companies.

  66. Security Metrics as a Management Tool

    April 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Modern security management requires a toolkit of effective metrics to relate security operations to the reduction of risk.

  67. 2007 Top Executive Compensation Report - Key Findings

    April 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 2006.

  68. HR Challenge: Staffing Up to Expand Overseas

    April 2008 | Executive Action Report

    You don't have to be a huge company to establish a presence in foreign markets. You do need to develop global leaders and learn how to recruit local talent.

  69. On the Measurement and Analysis of Aggregate Economic Activity for China: The Coincident Economic Indicators Approach

    April 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Feng Guo, Ataman Ozyildirim, Victor Zarnowitz, April 2008. - EPWP #08 – 01

  70. CEO Challenge: Perspectives and Analysis — 2007 Edition

    April 2008 | Research Report

    This report offers CEO insights on a wide variety of issues, including seizing opportunities in China and India, current barriers to continuing innovation, and intellectual property issues.

  71. Human Resources: Changing to Drive Business Strategy

    April 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Huge transformational changes taking place in business have demanded that human resources professionals adapt their strategies and operating procedures.

  72. HIV/AIDS in the Workplace

    April 2008 | Research Report

    This is a follow-up to The Conference Board's first report on the corporate response to HIV/AIDS published in 1997.

  73. Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity

    April 2008 | Research Report

    This report shines a spotlight on obesity, and offers some solutions, and the potential rewards and risks of taking action.

  74. Capturing Butterflies and Making Them Talk

    April 2008 | Executive Action Report

    This report looks at how to overcome the four critical challenges to transferring knowledge across generations.

  75. 2007 Top Executive Compensation Report

    April 2008 | Research Report

    This annual report provides and analyzes compensation data for the top five executives as reported in proxy tables based on the new SEC requirements of 2006.

  76. Political Money: The Need for Director Oversight

    April 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Until recently, companies' political expenditures were not fully disclosed and were rarely subject to oversight by boards. The lack of attention that these expenditures normally receive has exposed companies to serious legal and reputation risks.

  77. Assessing the Climate for Enterprise Risk Management in India

    April 2008 | Research Report

    This report looks at the state of ERM integration in India-based corporations and examines emerging practices in this area by four leading corporations in India.

  78. Ready to Innovate: Are Educators and Executives Aligned on the Creative Readiness of the U.S. Workforce?

    March 2008 | Key Findings

    This report provides the results of surveyed public school superintendents and American business executives (employers) asked to identify and compare their views surrounding creativity.

  79. Managing Great Expectations: Reshaping Engagement Strategies to Address Stakeholders' Citizenship and Sustainability Concerns

    March 2008 | Executive Action Report

    It is critical that a company understand the Citizenship and Sustainability issues relevant to its products, services, and operations, and know how stakeholders perceive its responsiveness to those issues.

  80. Allure of Private Equity and Its Impact on Performance Pay in Publicly Held Companies

    March 2008 | Executive Action Report

    Despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, privateequity packages may not help public sector companies win the war for talent.

  81. Performance 2008: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies

    March 2008 | Research Report

    This report is the first comprehensive overview of new data on productivity, growth, and employment trends through 2007 based on The Conference Board's and the Groningen Growth and Development Centre's Total Economy Database.

  82. Going Green: Corporate Commitment to Citizenship and Sustainability Issues Takes on a Greater Role

    March 2008 | Executive Action Report

    North American companies have placed increased emphasis on corporate citizenship and sustainability issues over the past three years, leading to numerous changes within their organizations.

  83. How CEOs Turn Themselves (and Others) into True Leaders

    February 2008 | Executive Action Report

    As never before, leaders of small-to-midsize companies must master softer, more intangible skills, such as the capacity to build relationships and maintain a strong culture.

  84. Finding the Right Balance: The Risks and Rewards of Third Party Ethics Programs

    February 2008 | Research Report

    This survey based report provides findings on company practices regarding compliance and ethics requirements and standards to third parties.

  85. Investing in the Future—the Importance of Cross-Sector Partnerships in Improving Workforce Readiness

    February 2008 | Executive Action Report

    With talent gaps looming, businesses have a strong incentive to focus on workforce readiness.

  86. New Graduates' Workforce Readiness: The Mid-Market Perspective

    February 2008 | Research Report

    This report presents a mid-market perspective on the workforce readiness of newly hired high school and college graduates.

  87. 2007 Corporate Contributions Report

    January 2008 | Research Report

    This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.

  88. Working at the Intersection of Human Resources and Business Ethics – the Need for Collaboration

    January 2008 | Executive Action Report

    When it comes to the implementation of an effective ethics and compliance program, corporate culture, performance incentives, and disciplinary systems must be closely integrated with standard human resources and talent management processes.

  89. Can Continuing Changes in Pension Management Provide a Secure Retirement?

    January 2008 | Executive Action Report

    With 77 million baby boomers headed for retirement, it's no surprise that nearly every facet of pension plan structure and financial management is being reevaluated.

  90. Compensation & Benefits: A Global View

    January 2008 | Executive Action Report

    What are the most effective strategies for recruiting and retaining high-performing talent when it's a sellers' market, virtually anywhere in the world?

  91. A Place at the Table: Should the Ethics Function Report to a Company's Highest Authority?

    January 2008 | Executive Action Report

    An increasing number of professionals in the ethics field advocate that the chief ethics officer report to a company's highest authority.

  92. Compensation & Benefits: A Global View

    January 2008 | Council Perspectives

    What are the most effective strategies for recruiting and retaining high-performing talent when it’s a sellers’ market, virtually anywhere in the world?

2007

  1. 2007 Report on Top Executive Compensation—Key Findings

    December 2007 | Executive Action Report

    The Conference Board 2007 Report on Top Executive Compensation—Key Findings indicates that CEOs of the largest companies hold a substantial amount of company stock.

  2. Contribution of Restructuring and Reallocation to China's Productivity and Growth

    December 2007 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Haiyan Deng, John Haltiwanger, Robert McGuckin, Jianyi Xu, Yaodong Liu, and Yuqi Liu, December 2007. - EPWP #07 – 04

  3. Mid-Market CEO Challenge: 2007 Edition

    December 2007 | Research Report

    This survey based report provides an overview of the challenges currently faced by CEOs in the mid-market sector.

  4. Evidence-Based Human Resources: A Primer and Summary of Current Literature

    December 2007 | Research Report

    This literature review documents the evolution of the field of human resources and advances in techniques and technologies for measuring human capital dynamics.

  5. Persistent Business Cycles and High Economic Growth: How to Explain Their Long Concurrence in Modern Capitalism?

    December 2007 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Victor Zarnowitz, December 2007. - EPWP #07 – 03

  6. Gray Skies, Silver Linings: How Companies Are Forecasting, Managing, and Recruiting a Mature Workforce

    December 2007 | Research Report

    Executives in need of frank, bottom-line answers to the questions raised by boomer retirements will find them in this report.

  7. Gray Skies, Silver Linings: How Companies Are Forecasting, Managing, and Recruiting a Mature Workforce

    December 2007 | Key Findings

    Executives in need of frank, bottom-line answers to the questions raised by boomer retirements will find them in this report.

  8. Reputation Risk: A Corporate Governance Perspective

    December 2007 | Research Report

    This report is intended to increase the awareness of reputation risk as a corporate governance matter and offer guidance on how corporate boards can approach their fiduciary responsibilities in this area.

  9. Innovation, Intangibles and Economic Growth: Towards A Comprehensive Accounting of the Knowledge Economy

    December 2007 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Bart van Ark and Charles R. Hulten, December 2007. - EPWP #07 – 02

  10. Can China's Growth Trajectory Be Sustained?

    December 2007 | Research Report

    This report explores the factors that appear to be driving China's turbo growth and addresses the question of just how long this extraordinary growth can continue.

  11. China’s Productivity Boom: The Contribution of Restructuring to Growth and Competitiveness

    December 2007 | Research Report

    While Chinese firms still operate at productivity levels well below their foreign counterparts, this report shows that they are making startling progress.

  12. Company Focus on the Risk of Third-Party Misconduct — A New Strategic Consideration

    November 2007 | Executive Action Report

    The need for partners in global markets, and the competitive and external pressures for high standards of business conduct from governments, international organizations, and NGOs are resulting in an increased company focus on third-party business conduct.

  13. Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost?

    November 2007 | Research Report

    This report is based on detailed analysis of 250 opportunities for reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases thought to contribute to global warming.

  14. A Marketer's Guide to Discretionary Income

    November 2007 | Research Report

    About 73 million households in the United States have some discretionary income at their disposal, up from nearly 57 million in 2002.

  15. What Others Think of You Matters: Manage and Boost Your Corporate Reputation Using Social Media

    November 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Podcasts. Blogs. Virtual Worlds. Today's media landscape is evolving, stretching far beyond traditional radio, television, and print, and the days of managing your company's reputation with just a press release are history.

  16. Manufacturing In China Today: Employment And Labor Compensation

    November 2007 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Judith Banister, November 2007. - EPWP #07 – 01

  17. Step Up to Solutions-Selling

    October 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Some small and midsize companies are getting organized to sell solutions, not just products. Why aren't all the others?

  18. Changing Role of the COO
    Is the Chief Operating Officer Headed for Transformation or Extinction?

    October 2007 | Research Report

    Although some studies suggest that the COO position is being eliminated, this new study reveals, instead, that the role is evolving, based on a company's situation.

  19. CEO Challenge 2007
    Top 10 Challenges

    October 2007 | Research Report

    This survey based report finds execution is taking precedence over profit and top-line growth as a focus for CEOs around the world.

  20. Workforce Readiness Initiative

    October 2007 | Research Report

    This report is a summary of the key issues and action points that emerged from the Workforce Readiness Initiative Stakeholders Strategy Meeting held June 26–27, 2007 in Washington, D.C.

  21. Private Equity: Pirates or Saviors?

    September 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Every day we read about the latest private equity threat to a corporate icon. Private equity is shaking up sleepy companies and transforming industries all over the world.

  22. Building an Ethical Company

    September 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Whether large, small, or medium-sized, ethics and compliance programs are now essential to a company's DNA.

  23. Risky Business
    Is Enterprise Risk Management Losing Ground?

    September 2007 | Research Report

    Enterprise risk management continues to be the approach most used by companies wanting a thorough, well-thought out plan to understand and manage risks. But how far are these companies going to integrate risk management throughout their businesses?

  24. Meetings: The Biggest Money Pit of Them All

    September 2007 | Executive Action Report

    The cost of off-site meetings is often grossly underestimated by companies' management, and sometimes it's not even tracked at all. But in this age of Sarbanes-Oxley, boards and shareholders are demanding that unexamined expenditures be accounted for.

  25. Where Are the Women Directors?

    September 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Women are everywhere in corporate America — except on boards. Here's how to change that.

  26. When an Employee's Freedom of Religion Crosses Paths with a Company's Interests

    September 2007 | Executive Action Report

    As religion increasingly collides with corporate policies and practices, companies are asking what is and isn't permissible behavior — for workers and for themselves.

  27. Unlocking Speed and Agility

    September 2007 | Executive Action Report

    If mid-market companies want to remain strong competitors and avoid complacency, they need to rediscover the speed and agility they had as start-ups.

  28. Connecting Emotions and Personality to Your Corporate Image and Brands

    August 2007 | Executive Action Report

    When it comes to building and maintaining a corporate brand, today's democratized market is no place for top-down, hierarchical thinking. In this climate, an authoritative tone is as apt to cause resentment as it is to increase sales.

  29. Crafting a Strategy for Virtual Worlds: Eight Questions to Ask

    August 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Virtual worlds are emerging fast on the business landscape, but few companies have developed a strategy to deal with them. How can you take advantage of this new technology?

  30. Growing Globally in an Age of Disruptions — How India's Top Companies Are Meeting the Challenge

    July 2007 | Executive Action Report

    What tools do Indian companies with global ambitions need to compete effectively?

  31. Global Luxury Market

    July 2007 | Research Report

    This report offers a cross-cultural perspective on consumers' attitudes toward luxury and explores how those attitudes influence consumers in different markets.

  32. Corporate Governance Handbook 2007: Legal Standards and Board Practices

    July 2007 | Research Report

    This handbook is intended to be an easy-to-use compendium of rapidly evolving laws and rules and the best practices adopted by leading companies.

  33. Designing Organizations That Execute New Strategies and Create Capabilities for Change

    July 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Since organizations are experiencing constant change — driven by today's global and hyper-competitive environment — they need to build an internal design capability to realign organizational components on an almost continuous basis.

  34. Corporate Giving Priorities and Challenges in 2007

    June 2007 | Executive Action Report

    What are some of the key drivers behind corporate giving programs? A Conference Board survey reveals the priorities and challenges that are affecting corporate philanthropy in 2007.

  35. Women and Leadership: Creating Opportunities for Advancement

    June 2007 | Executive Action Report

    With smaller numbers of U.S. workers expected during the next decade and increasing numbers of women entering the workforce, more business leaders are realizing that competing globally will require making good use of all their human resources.

  36. Finding a Definition of Employee Engagement

    June 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Executives are beginning to realize that "employee engagement" doesn't mean the same thing to everyone in every company. So what is the proper definition and what does it mean to have an engaged workforce?

  37. Brotherly Alliances, Engines of Growth

    June 2007 | Executive Action Report

    One of the fastest, least capital-intensive ways for small-to-midsize companies to grow is to connect with a larger, more powerful partner or brand. But how do you find a 'big brother' you can trust?

  38. Boomers Are Ready for Nonprofits
    But Are Nonprofits Ready for Them?

    June 2007 | Research Report

    This report focuses on the impact the anticipated retirements of baby boomers will have on the stability, growth, and potential of the nonprofit sector in the coming years.

  39. Strategic M&A:
    Creating Tools and Capabilities for Successful Integration

    May 2007 | Research Report

    This survey based report examines the procedures companies are currently using to pursue their M&A activities.

  40. Managing for a Carbon-Concerned Future
    A Decision-Making Framework

    May 2007 | Research Report

    This report addresses a subject on which much less has been written — the decision-making process for companies wishing to develop new carbon management approaches and opportunities.

  41. Business Benefits of Security: Making the Case in Mid-Market Companies

    April 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Mid-market companies are coming to the realization that security is best viewed as an investment that increases business value, rather than an expense to be minimized.

  42. Middle Managers: Engaging and Enrolling the Biggest Roadblock to Diversity and Inclusion

    April 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Middle management is essential to the success of any diversity initiative — playing a key role in hiring, development and promotion decisions. But they're often at direct odds with diversity practitioners, who by definition challenge the status quo.

  43. Middle Managers: Engaging and Enrolling the Biggest Roadblock to Diversity and Inclusion

    April 2007 | Council Perspectives

    Middle management is essential to the success of any diversity initiative – playing a key role in hiring, development and promotion decisions. But they're often at direct odds with diversity practitioners, who by definition challenge the status quo.

  44. A View From the Top:
    The Challenge of Building A Global Workforce

    March 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Last November, a group of CEO panelists discussed the redistribution of jobs outside the United States with both optimism and concern.

  45. Phased Retirement after the Pension Protection Act

    March 2007 | Research Report

    In this report, two case studies provide examples of phased retirement programs in action.

  46. Consumer-Driven Healthcare:
    Current Practices, Future Upgrades

    March 2007 | Research Report

    Based on presentations at The Conference Board Consumer-Driven Healthcare Working Group, a review of existing literature, and interviews with employers and health plans, this report summarizes what is currently known about consumer-driven healthcare.

  47. Growing a Business Niche by Niche

    March 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Smaller and midsize companies are often gut-smart about serving a well-defined market segment. They can build on their success by expanding into "the niche next door."

  48. Convergence of Principle- and Rule-Based Ethics Programs: An Emerging Global Trend?

    March 2007 | Executive Action Report

    There is a growing recognition that principles and rules are both essential elements in an effective ethics and compliance program. What is at stake in the ethics versus compliance debate?

  49. Becoming Skilled at Painting with Two Brushes

    March 2007 | Executive Action Report

    What are Asian and Western-based companies doing to develop the kinds of leaders that are badly needed in Asia and elsewhere today?

  50. Secrets of Midsize Success:
    An Interview with Richard E. Cavanagh

    February 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Midsize companies are essential to the U.S. economy, both for the products and services they offer and the jobs they provide. They also face a unique set of challenges and opportunities.

  51. Risk and Opportunity in the Gathering Climate Change Storm

    February 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Converging trends and forces are raising the profile of climate change and the need for carbon emissions reduction. Business must prepare to minimize risks and realize the opportunities that are rapidly emerging.

  52. Growth in the Middle East Depends on Productivity

    February 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Can the Middle East and North African region overcome stagnant productivity levels and the lack of a large middle class with spending power?

  53. Emerging Governance Practices In Enterprise Risk Management

    February 2007 | Research Report

    This report examines how ERM departs from the fragmented and compartmentalized risk management solutions already in place at many organizations.

  54. 2007 Institutional Investment Report

    February 2007 | Research Report

    This report is widely regarded as the most definitive source of information on U.S. institutional investor ownership and control.

  55. How to Make Executive Coaching Work for Your Company and Executives

    February 2007 | Executive Action Report

    The field of executive coaching continues to evolve today, but in general, successful coaching agreements are based on a high degree of professional integrity on the coach's part, and a coachee willing to embark on the "coaching journey".

  56. Citizenship and Sustainability: Doing Good Can Be Good for Business

    January 2007 | Executive Action Report

    While they may not be in the public eye as much as their larger counterparts, small and mid-size companies have a lot to gain by expanding their corporate citizenship and sustainability programs.

  57. Is ICT's Contribution to Productivity Growth Peaking?

    January 2007 | Executive Action Report

    This analysis examines whether information technology can continue to boost productivity growth, among other issues based on this study of productivity and income trends in 40 countries.

  58. 2006 Corporate Contributions Report

    January 2007 | Research Report

    This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.

  59. Europe's Progress in Promoting Work-Life and Diversity in the Workplace

    January 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Comprehensive anti-discrimination legislation now covers all 27 member states of the European Union. This report looks at a series of best practices now being implemented at major companies throughout Europe.

  60. Bridging China's Talent Gap

    January 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Finding talented managers in China is difficult. For multinationals, it is now a challenge not only to recruit the best people, but also to develop and retain them.

  61. How Public-Private Partnerships in Education Can Enhance International Business Competitiveness

    January 2007 | Executive Action Report

    Roughly three billion new participants are entering the global economic system from countries like Russia, China, India, and Vietnam — increasing risk and competition, as well as opportunity, in this expanded economic universe.

  62. Designing the High-Performance Compensation Plan That Works

    January 2007 | Executive Action Report

    The latest article of the Mid-Market Trends series shows how smaller and midsize companies are revising their incentive plans, extending them to more employees, and attempting to tie them more closely to strategic objectives.

2006

  1. Toward a Framework for Supply Chain Leadership

    December 2006 | Executive Action Report

    With no management framework to effectively guide the implementation of Supply Chain Leadership programs, it has largely been a learn-as-you-go endeavor, with many companies learning the same lessons, over and over again.

  2. Soft Law and Ethics Programs: The Expanding Role for Company Attorneys

    December 2006 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action explores "soft law" issues and how they have created a new role — and new dilemmas — for lawyers.

  3. Faith at Work: What Does It Mean to Be a “Faith-Friendly” Company?

    November 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Though in its early stages, the "faith-at-work movement" is demanding serious attention from employers. How companies frame their response will determine if the issue becomes a legal minefield or a source of competitive advantage.

  4. Resisting Corruption
    How Company Programs Are Changing

    November 2006 | Research Report

    This survey based report offers solutions for developing effective anti-corruption systems.

  5. Reward Trumps Risk: How Business Perspectives on Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Are Changing

    November 2006 | Executive Action Report

    While companies see more potential reward than risk when it comes to corporate citizenship and sustainability (CC&S) issues, they are clearly struggling to find concrete ways to capitalize on their programs in the marketplace.

  6. Employee Engagement
    A Review of Current Research and Its Implications

    November 2006 | Research Report

    This literature review summarizes what is known on the topic of "Employee Engagement" and what companies can do to foster true engagement in the workplace.

  7. Role of Business in Society
    An Agenda for Action

    November 2006 | Research Report

    This report explores why the role of business in society is on the agenda of the Chief Executive and Board of leading international companies and what they can do about it.

  8. Faith at Work: What Does It Mean to Be a “Faith-Friendly” Company?

    November 2006 | Council Perspectives

    Though in its early stages, the "faith-at-work movement" is demanding serious attention from employers. How companies frame their response will determine if the issue becomes a legal minefield or a source of competitive advantage.

  9. Stopping the Profit Drain from Higher Energy Costs

    October 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Corporate America can expect little respite from soaring — and volatile — energy prices. Smaller companies can protect profits by strengthening the ways they manage energy use.

  10. Navigating Risk — The Business Case for Security

    October 2006 | Research Report

    This report details survey results, regarding managing and mitigating risk, of 213 senior corporate executives working for a broad range of companies.

  11. 2006 Top Executive Compensation Report

    October 2006 | Research Report

    This annual report provides an analysis of the compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 3,075 publicly traded firms in 14 major industry categories in 2005.

  12. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2006

    October 2006 | Research Report

    This annual report provides information on the amount and type of compensation paid outside directors in 2006 in 402 companies in three major industry sectors.

  13. Carbon Footprint a Growing Management Concern

    October 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Companies are increasingly focusing on greenhouse gases and their implications for business. Based on 2006 survey results from the research project "Managing for a Carbon-Concerned Future: Obligation or Opportunity?"

  14. Leadership Challenges for Indian Companies

    October 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Tomorrow's Indian business leaders must be master strategists, able to manage change as well as relationships and networks, and perhaps most importantly demonstrate the ability to develop new leaders.

  15. Are They Really Ready to Work?

    October 2006 | Research Report

    This report defines workforce readiness by examining survey results and interviews with Human Resource and other senior executives.

  16. Competitive Advantage of “Low-Wage” Countries Often Exaggerated

    October 2006 | Executive Action Report

    When adjusting wages for productivity, the cost advantage to companies of "low-wage" countries and regions such as China, India, Mexico, or Central and Eastern Europe over North America and Western Europe is smaller than you think.

  17. Philanthropy at Mid-Market Firms: It Pays to Be Creative

    September 2006 | Executive Action Report

    With a little creativity, midsize companies can make their philanthropic activities stand out, not only providing a wealth of assistance to those in need, but also strengthening their organizations at the same time.

  18. Pandemic Preparedness: Frequently Asked Questions

    September 2006 | Executive Action Report

    The Conference Board has presented a number of programs to help businesses better prepare for and understand the challenges posed by an avian flu or other human influenza pandemic. Here we address the recurring questions elicited by these programs.

  19. Global Talent Management: How Businesses Attract, Develop, and Retain the Best

    September 2006 | Executive Action Report

    As baby boomers head towards retirement and birth rates decline globally, how will companies handle the available talent pool shrinking?

  20. Universal Conduct: An Ethics and Compliance Benchmarking Survey

    September 2006 | Research Report

    This study documents the efforts of 225 companies to design, implement and monitor their compliance and risk assessment programs for effectiveness.

  21. Growing the New Business Leader

    September 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Are companies doing enough to anticipate their future leadership requirements? Are they instilling the right experiences and skills for the future in their talent of today?

  22. Ethics Programs and Practices: A 20-Year Retrospective

    September 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Taking an overview of corporate ethics codes in the past 20 years, this report finds that such codes are becoming more detailed and precise.

  23. How to Hire Top Performers
    (Hint: They Already Have Jobs)

    August 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Smaller companies don’t have to settle for less. Get an edge in the talent wars with shrewd targeting and robust retention strategies.

  24. Strategic Workforce Planning
    Forecasting Human Capital Needs to Execute Business Strategy

    August 2006 | Research Report

    This report is the culmination of presentations by workforce planning thought leaders and best practice organizations, a literature review, and company interviews of 20 companies, from which nine were chosen for detailed case studies.

  25. Building a World-Class Workforce:
    Two Case Studies

    July 2006 | Executive Action Report

    This report details how Rockwell Collins and PricewaterhouseCoopers are innovating recruitment and retention strategies to ensure a skilled, motivated, and diverse workforce.

  26. Are Businesses Doing Enough To Prepare for a Pandemic?

    July 2006 | Executive Action Report

    As the effectiveness of a world response to any pandemic depends upon the quality of advance preparations, this research seeks to clarify the role business plays.

  27. Nuts and Bolts of Execution: Putting Ideas to Work

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    How do mid-market companies take great vision and make it a reality?

  28. Role of U.S. Corporate Boards in Enterprise Risk Management

    June 2006 | Research Report

    The Conference Board with McKinsey & Company and KPMG's Audit Committee Institute conducted research on the role of U.S. corporate boards in Enterprise Risk Management; the findings are reported here.

  29. Women of Color: Strategies for Leadership Success

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action report offers some strategies for personal success for women of color.

  30. Threat, Vulnerability, and Consequence: A Framework for Managing Security

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    This Executive Action report examines the specification of risk and its application to a commonly employed analytic tool, the Security Risk Equation.

  31. Making the Business Case for Security

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    A survey of corporate decision-makers by The Conference Board and sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security finds that executives give most weight to security concerns on issues of operational risk, such as compliance and certification.

  32. On the Record With.... Dr. Gerhard Cromme

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    An exclusive in-depth interview with Dr. Gerhard Cromme, Chairman of the Supervisory Board, ThyssenKrupp AG, Düsseldorf, Germany.

  33. Salary Budgets Holding Steady

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    A survey of HR executives of 441 companies reveals pay increases for most salaried workers will average only 3.5 percent this year and stay at that level through 2007.

  34. On the Record With.... Dr. Stephanie A. Burns

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    In this exclusive in-depth interview, Dow Corning President and CEO Dr Stephanie A. Burns, explains why the notion of an innovative organization must extend far beyond the development of new products into processes and strategy.

  35. Maximizing Rotational Assignments: A Handbook for Human Resources Executives

    June 2006 | Research Report

    This handbook explores the dynamics at play in identifying and executing business unit, geographic, and staff-line rotations.

  36. Growing a Family Company: An Exercise in Patience

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    In order to survive, many smaller and mid-sized companies are being forced to grow. But to grow successfully, they will have to re-examine old attitudes and junk outdated business models.

  37. On the Record With.... Sajjan Jindal

    June 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Sajjan Jindal, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of JSW Steel, Ltd.; Mumbai, India, explains his philosophy for corporate success, particularly the importance of maintaining a long-term business view in the face of short-term pressure.

  38. Europe's Productivity Gap: Catching Up or Getting Stuck?

    June 2006 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Bart Van Ark, June 2006. - EPWP #06 - 02

  39. CEO Challenge 2006: Perspectives & Analysis

    June 2006 | Research Report

    Summary and analysis of findings from this year's CEO Challenge Survey.

  40. Appendices to "Internationally Comparable Science, Technology and Competitiveness Indicators"

    June 2006 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin, Bart van Ark, Sean M. Dougherty and Robert Inklaar, May 2006. - EPWP #06 – 01

  41. Safety, Health and Environmental Management Excellence Yields Business Benefit

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    This report highlights the Environmental Health & Safety programs of two recent winners of The Robert W. Campbell Award.

  42. On the Record With.... Bertrand Collomb

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    An in-depth interview with Bertrand Collomb, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Lafarge, France, on current forces in management and the marketplace and the trends he expects to face in the future.

  43. Are They Really Ready To Work?

    May 2006 | Key Findings

    This report defines workforce readiness by examining survey results and interviews with Human Resource and other senior executives.

  44. Management’s Great Addiction

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Corporations are obsessed with numbers. Isn't it time we recognize that we can’t measure everything?

  45. Irresolute American

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    The bold face Americans put on in the marketplace is quite different than the one they have in the workplace. Are Americans working in fear?

  46. On the Record With.... Lim Chee-Onn

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    An in-depth interview with Lim Chee-Onn, Executive Chairman, Keppel Corporation, Ltd., Singapore, on current forces in management and the marketplace and the trends he expects to face in the future.

  47. Mid-Market CEO Challenge 2006

    May 2006 | Research Report

    This survey based report highlights the most important issues confronting over 250 CEOs of U.S. mid-market companies.

  48. Philanthropy and Business: The Changing Agenda

    May 2006 | Research Report

    This survey based report reveals how corporate giving and philanthropic programs determine their issue and topic strategies and how these change or stay the same over time.

  49. Overcoming the Barriers to a Successful Cross-Sector Partnership

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Businesses and humanitarian organizations are utilizing partnerships to become more efficient in dealing with disaster responses and aid distribution. What barriers need to be overcome to make these partnerships work more easily?

  50. Is Avian Flu the Next Y2K? Can We Afford To Think So?

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Coping with a potential pandemic requires a different approach to continuity planning. Is your company preparing properly?

  51. Age and Opportunity: Plan Strategically to Get the Most Out of a Maturing Workforce

    May 2006 | Executive Action Report

    If baby boomers retire as expected, there won't be enough people to do the work. Is it time for your company to panic?

  52. Cutting Healthcare Costs: Options for Mid-Market Firms

    April 2006 | Research Report

    This report explores some new healthcare cost cutting options through the experiences of five mid-market companies.

  53. Cultural Resistance to Whistleblowing Systems—Myth or Reality?

    April 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Americans may think that whistleblowing systems don't work abroad because workers and governments don't want them. But they can work, and new conversations explore some of the challenges of taking the concept abroad.

  54. Revisiting Stock Market Short-Termism

    April 2006 | Research Report

    This report represents a unique consensus achieved at the Corporate/Investor Summit on stock market short-termism.

  55. Age and Opportunity: Plan Strategically to Get the Most Out of a Maturing Workforce

    April 2006 | Council Perspectives

    The trend numbers are enough to frighten even the most stoic CEO. In a nutshell: if boomers retire as expected, there won’t be enough people to do the work. But companies can plan their way out of the worst and gain a competitive advantage too

  56. Leadership Development in Asia-Pacific: Identifying and Developing Leaders for Growth

    March 2006 | Research Report

    This report is based on The Conference Board Working Group on Leadership Development in Asia-Pacific, a survey of 55 organizations, and The 2005 Asia-Pacific Leadership Development Conference held in June 2005.

  57. Hispanics in the Workplace: Building Meaningful Diversity

    March 2006 | Executive Action Report

    This report explores current conditions and anticipated changes in both the overall Hispanic community and the Mexican, Central and South American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, and other Hispanic populations.

  58. Challenge of Meeting Public Expectations on Sustainable Development

    March 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Industries that are perceived to be a risk to health, safety, and the environment are adopting new approaches to relieve public concerns regarding their new developments and products.

  59. What's in a Day's Pay? SEC Proposes New Rules for Disclosing Executive Compensation

    February 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Proxy statements will include more information — and more transparency. The impact on executive pay, companies and stockholders is less certain.

  60. Business Case for Diversity: Good Practices in the Workplace

    February 2006 | Executive Action Report

    What do case studies tell us about the impact of diversity in the workplace?

  61. A Strategic Approach to Security: Compliance, Certification, and Competitive Advantage

    February 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Should companies be viewing security as a strategic tool for anticipating and managing risk?

  62. Strengthening Corporate Governance: A New Age of Entrepreneurship in India

    February 2006 | Executive Action Report

    How is India benefiting from coming late to the game of developing globally accepted corporate governance standards? By reaping the results of years of experimentation and trial and error by others.

  63. Preparing for the Worst: A Guide to Business Continuity Planning for Mid-Markets

    February 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Why are smaller companies creating disaster survival plans? Because regulators, investors, and customers are demanding they do so.

  64. Evolving Relationship Between Compensation Committees and Consultants

    January 2006 | Research Report

    This report traces the development of “best practices” for compensation committees, particularly with respect to processes required to choose and employ outside consultants.

  65. What Do We Really Know about Effective Leadership in Change Management?

    January 2006 | Executive Action Report

    While the need for effective leadership is seen to be one of growing importance, the means to achieve it are far from clear. So where does one turn for guidance, and where do efforts get focused?

  66. Are You In or Out? In-House vs. Outside Counsel

    January 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Some companies use outside counsel, but many small and midsize companies have made the switch to in-house counsel to combat their ballooning fees. What is the right move for your company?

  67. Diversity and Profitability: Making the Connections

    January 2006 | Executive Action Report

    Demographic changes in Europe, combined with government regulations, are putting pressure on companies to increase the diversity of their workforces.

2005

  1. Incredible Shrinking Corporation

    December 2005 | Executive Action Report

    In trying to please Wall Street, companies have starved themselves nearly to death.

  2. 2005 Corporate Contributions Report

    December 2005 | Research Report

    An analysis of the giving patterns of 189 major corporations in 2004.

  3. Looking for Employees in All the Right Places

    December 2005 | Executive Action Report

    The buzz may be about the Internet and job boards, but recruiters shouldn’t write off that old stand-by—newspaper help-wanted print advertising.

  4. Globalization: Will Your Company Be Left Standing?

    December 2005 | Executive Action Report

    New market realities may compel mid-market companies to adopt a business model that powers growth through product innovation, as well as improved operational effectiveness.

  5. Making It in Manufacturing: Becoming Lean to Compete Globally

    December 2005 | Executive Action Report

    What are some steps companies in higher-wage countries can take to remain competitive globally?

  6. Fatal Attraction: The Job Candidate That Is Too Good To Be True

    December 2005 | Executive Action Report

    What are the possible consequences of hiring the wrong person, and how can companies protect themselves from making hiring mistakes?

  7. Defining the Corporate Ethics Brand

    November 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Corporate Ethics and Social Responsibility, although seen as equivalent by the public, have different lines of authority, and different sources of institutional support. Is there a way to integrate them and mold a coherent Corporate Ethics Brand?

  8. Moving the World - A Case Study in CSR Partnership

    November 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Moving the World, a unique partnership between TNT and the U.N. shows how two organizations can combine their core strengths to make a life-saving difference - and increase a company's competitiveness and reputation.

  9. Aligning the Organization: Management and Human Resource Concerns

    November 2005 | Research Report

    This document shows the benefits of using overseas labor and shows the obstacles that must be overcome for a successful transition.

  10. 2005 Top Executive Compensation Report

    November 2005 | Executive Summary

    An analysis of the compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 3,143 publicly traded firms in 2005

  11. Corporate Contributions in 2004

    November 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Corporate giving among the largest U.S. corporations is on the rise according to The Conference Board’s annual survey. Results from 133 matched-case companies and corporate foundations reveals their total U.S. giving jumped almost 22 percent in 2004.

  12. 2005 Top Executive Compensation Report

    November 2005 | Research Report

    An analysis of the compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 3,143 publicly traded firms in 2005

  13. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2005

    November 2005 | Research Report

    This is a data compilation of Director's compensation for the year 2005. Data includes basic analysis providing information on which industries pay the highest amount of compensation to their executives.

  14. Developing Global Leaders

    November 2005 | Research Report

    This document strives to identify leaders from the talent pool available to executives and best utilize human resources in an international context.

  15. Developing Global Leaders

    November 2005 | Executive Summary

    This document strives to identify leaders from the talent pool available to executives and best utilize human resources in an international context.

  16. CEO Challenge 2006: Top 10 Challenges

    November 2005 | Research Report

    This study, based on responses by over 500 Chief Executive Officers to this year's CEO Challenge 2006 Survey, provides an overview of the "Top 10 Challenges".

  17. Managing Talent in Asia: Leadership Challenges in a Time of Transition

    October 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Numerous differences exist in Asian society both cultural, generational, and technological which has lead to new challenges. How can business leaders successfully overcome these differences?

  18. Expanding the Investment Frontier: Factoring Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria into Investment Analysis

    October 2005 | Research Report

    Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria are becoming more recognized as an essential tool in investment analysis.

  19. Keep It Simple: Getting Your Arms Around Enterprise Risk Management

    October 2005 | Executive Action Report

    The savviest companies approach to Enterprise Risk Management is to focus on the fundamentals. Is your company one of them?

  20. From Risk Management To Risk Strategy: Mid-Markets

    October 2005 | Research Report

    This survey based report presents the facts and figures on Mid Market companies increasing utilization of Risk Management Strategies.

  21. Gulf Coast Hurricanes: Assessing the Economic Impact

    October 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Economic growth in the United States was already losing steam before Hurricanes Katrina and Rita hit. To what extent will these natural disasters impact our national economy?

  22. Gaining Momentum in Mainstream Investing . . . or Not?

    October 2005 | Executive Action Report

    The potential for ESG integration is at a critical point. Has the importance of ESG factors in mainstream investment analysis been set?

  23. Managing Paradoxes in Change: Six Steps for Building a Balanced Culture

    September 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Change in initiatives and strategies happen constantly in large companies. But, how often do company leaders address the most critical success factor in sustainable change—changing people’s behavior?

  24. 2005 Institutional Investment Report: U.S. and International Trends

    September 2005 | Research Report

    This report covers the most relevant aspects of domestic and international institutional investment trends.

  25. Defining Corporate Governance Best Practices to Add Firm Value

    September 2005 | Executive Action Report

    European family-controlled public companies tend to perform less well in the stock market than their American counterparts. Would best practices followed by family firms in the United States be helpful examples for similar enterprises in Europe?

  26. Executive Compensation Consulting: A Research Working Group Report on Best Practices

    September 2005 | Research Report

    This report presents a set of best practices developed by The Working Group on Executive Compensation Consulting to guide corporate managements and compensation committees in their use of executive compensation consultants.

  27. Navigating Energy Management: A Roadmap for Business

    September 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Businesses today are more focused on “managing” energy than at any other time in recent decades. However, are business opportunities being missed because many companies are approaching energy management in an unsystematic fashion, or not at all?

  28. HR’s Role in Building a Culture of Innovation

    September 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Encouraging innovation is a high priority among CEOs. How can HR professionals gain a place at the strategy table by overcoming obstacles and fostering an innovation framework?

  29. Women in Leadership: The Diversity Imperative—Supporting Actions for Change

    August 2005 | Executive Action Report

    There are considerable gender gaps in employment status, pay levels, and career outlook in Europe despite roughly equal numbers of well-educated males and females. Are senior executives willing to take steps to correct the imbalance?

  30. Measure of Success: Evaluating Corporate Citizenship Performance

    August 2005 | Research Report

    This report presents a discussion of the evolution of corporate citizenship and how the political debates surrounding the topic have influenced measurement practice.

  31. Corporate Governance Best Practices in Europe

    August 2005 | Research Report

    This report explores the various corporate governance codes and practices currently in place in countries throughout Europe, and also examines the development of the European Union’s corporate governance Action Plan.

  32. How Smaller Companies Earn Customer Loyalty

    August 2005 | Executive Action Report

    How do you develop customer loyalty? How do you measure it? How do you profit from it?

  33. Effecting Change in Business Enterprises

    August 2005 | Research Report

    This study on change management presents current models and methods used based on a survey, in-depth interviews, case studies, and the collective experience of The Conference Board’s Three Faces of Change Working Group members.

  34. Effecting Change in Business Enterprises

    August 2005 | Executive Summary

    This study on change management presents current models and methods used based on a survey, in-depth interviews, case studies, and the collective experience of The Conference Board’s Three Faces of Change Working Group members.

  35. Managing Corporate Citizenship Implications of Offshoring

    July 2005 | Executive Action Report

    How can companies handle operational downsizing/offshoring while treating its departing employees with respect and maintaining its reputation in the community?

  36. Managing the Mature Workforce

    July 2005 | Research Report

    The report’s goal is to uncover the degree to which labor shortages and aging workforce issues are being recognized by corporations, and explore what is being done to address them in terms of best practices.

  37. Roadmap for Strategic Energy Planning and Management

    July 2005 | Research Report

    This report is intended as a guide for companies interested in a systematic appraisal and decision-making process in regard to energy management.

  38. New Corporate Reality: External and Market Considerations

    July 2005 | Research Report

    This report focuses on anticipating the requirements of the variety of shareholders and stakeholders—including government agencies, the press, and the general public—who will examine your offshoring operations.

  39. Corporate Social Responsibility In China: Can Voluntary Codes Succeed?

    July 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Is there an alternative to laws that are unevenly administered and enforced? A question well worth asking about business practice in all developing economies -- including China.

  40. China: Creating An Unlikely Edge In The Global Market Share Battle

    July 2005 | Executive Action Report

    In the quest for market dominance, is the ability to exploit the mass market more important than cutting edge innovation?

  41. Efficient Grantmaking: Using Technology to Enhance Due Diligence

    July 2005 | Executive Action Report

    How can grantmakers keep up with overwhelming demands, increasingly complex laws, and decreasing staff members? Is technology the answer?

  42. Corporate Governance Handbook 2005: Developments in Best Practices, Compliance, and Legal Standards

    July 2005 | Research Report

    In addition to bringing the 2003 report Corporate Governance Best Practices: A Blueprint for the Post-Enron Era up-to-date, this report is intended to provide boards and management with a compendium of the leading corporate governance practices.

  43. From Risk Management To Risk Strategy

    June 2005 | Research Report

    This survey based report presents the findings of 271 executives questioned on their current ERM practices.

  44. Corporate Citizenship Reporting: Best Practices

    June 2005 | Research Report

    This report presents case studies of five companies that exemplify best practices in the public reporting to stakeholders of citizenship performance.

  45. Mid-Market CEO Challenge

    June 2005 | Executive Summary

    This report, based on the 2004 CEO Challenge Survey, highlights the most important issues confronting mid-market CEOs.

  46. Going Global: Challenges for Indian Business

    June 2005 | Executive Action Report

    At The Conference Board 2005 Global Leadership Development Conference a number of top Indian CEOs shared their experiences as emerging global leaders in the business marketplace. This piece highlights some of the key discussion points from said meeting.

  47. Go Ahead: Sweat the Small Stuff

    June 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Microinequities among your fellow workers are more damaging than one might think - both to the left out employee and to the company itself.

  48. Beyond Costs: Financial and Operational Risks

    June 2005 | Research Report

    This report explores a number of important factors that must be taken into account when initiating offshoring, ranging from a consideration of unexpected setup costs to how to decide on a location.

  49. Using Ethical Analysis to Guide Offshoring

    June 2005 | Executive Action Report

    When considering offshoring, how can companies significantly reduce their exposure to risk?

  50. Enterprise Risk Management Systems: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard

    June 2005 | Research Report

    This report features a new approach to developing an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) system which goes beyond earlier basic concepts to not only identify strategic success measures, but also to link them to risk factors.

  51. Can U.S. Corporations Change the Way People Think About America?

    June 2005 | Executive Action Report

    There has been a gradual global erosion of faith in the United States and its government, and in turn consumers worldwide are losing trust in American corporations. Is it time for U.S. corporations to help change the way the U.S. is viewed?

  52. Business Is Evolving - Just Not In The Ways You Might Think

    May 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Is there anyone out there who hasn't heard the warnings that business is evolving? Modern business is perhaps the most evolutionary environment to ever exist and natural evolution has much to offer in understanding the challenges faced by management.

  53. Salary Increase Budgets 2005-2006: With Recovery Leveling Off, Mood Remains Cautious

    May 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Caution continues to be the prevailing mood when it comes to salary budgets, with continued attention paid to controlling costs. This is the third year in a row that median increases have fallen significantly below 4 percent.

  54. Why Ethical Leaders Are Different

    May 2005 | Executive Action Report

    What makes an ethical leader different? An ethical leader welcomes open and contentious debate and understands that this is essential to making the best possible decisions.

  55. Performance 2005: Productivity, Employment and Income in the World’s Economies

    May 2005 | Research Report

    This is the fifth year The Conference Board has reported estimates of productivity per hour worked for major industrial economies and productivity per employee for a large set of countries.

  56. Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Cost Shift or Paradigm Shift?

    May 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Consumer-driven health plans are the latest trend being presented as a promising solution to rising healthcare costs. This topic was discussed during The 2005 Employee Healthcare Conference held by The Conference Board in February and March.

  57. Why Organization Design Is Critical To Global Leadership Development

    April 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Talented individuals cannot contribute to their full capacity and potential in a top-heavy organization that stifles initiative. Why is the crucial connection between effective organization design and successful leadership development often ignored?

  58. How CFOs Carve Out Time for What Counts Most

    April 2005 | Executive Action Report

    The job descriptions of CFOs in smaller and mid-sized organizations have been steadily expanding. When do they find time to work on tasks that will build shareholder value?

  59. Revolution in Retail Trade

    April 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Barcodes and scanning technologies spurred a transformation in retail and wholesale trade, including a recent explosion in labor productivity growth. Now, 30 years after the first price scan, has the retail revolution run its course?

  60. Business Value of Leadership Development

    April 2005 | Research Report

    Through analysis and executive interviews with domestic and global companies, this report sheds light on key development issues facing leadership executives.

  61. Talent Management Value Imperatives: Strategies for Execution

    April 2005 | Research Report

    This interview based report takes a look at the three P’s (Prerequisites, Processes and Performance) of talent management.

  62. Talent Management Value Imperatives: Strategies for Execution

    April 2005 | Executive Summary

    This interview based report takes a looks at three P’s (Prerequisites, Processes and Performance) of talent management.

  63. Minimizing Risk and Maintaining Ethics in Asia–Pacific

    March 2005 | Executive Action Report

    In order to cope successfully when doing business in the Asia-Pacific world, one must take into consideration the region's unique culture and the higher incidence of certain kinds of risks.

  64. Committed Management Builds Sustainable Enterprises

    March 2005 | Executive Action Report

    This report considers how some Europe-based businesses are integrating environmental, social, and corporate governance reporting into their mainstream activities.

  65. How Prepared Are Companies for the Revised Sentencing Guidelines?

    March 2005 | Executive Action Report

    The modification of the Sentencing Guidelines in November 2004 included three newly emphasized ethical requirements. How prepared are companies to respond to these new challenges?

  66. Corporate Security Measures and Practices

    March 2005 | Research Report

    This piece encapsulates information from a series of reports regarding security issues, which were originally published by The Conference Board in 2003 and 2004.

  67. Mid-Market CEO Challenge

    March 2005 | Research Report

    This report, based on the 2004 CEO Challenge Survey, highlights the most important issues confronting mid-market CEOs.

  68. Retail Revolution - Can Europe Match U.S. Productivity Performance?

    March 2005 | Research Report

    This report dissects and identifies the root causes of the European Union-United States productivity growth gap in the retail and wholesale trade sectors.

  69. Take This Job and…

    February 2005 | Executive Action Report

    A new study finds that only half of all Americans are satisfied with their jobs -- nearly a ten percent decrease from ten years ago. Is there trouble ahead for employers?

  70. Energy Management Goes Strategic—An Operations-Only Issue No More

    February 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Now that energy is viewed as having an impact on so many critical areas, innovative companies are taking the issue out of the operational arena and giving it strategic focus.

  71. Thinking Offshoring Through

    February 2005 | Executive Action Report

    For a topic that has been so widely and so hotly debated, the answers to many questions about offshoring are still somewhat hazy. Why is that?

  72. Reaching the Goal Line On Good Governance

    February 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley has been a difficult undertaking for small and medium sized companies. It has been a painful learning experience with more lessons to be learned.

  73. On the Record With...Julien De Wilde

    February 2005 | Executive Action Report

    An interview with Julien De Wilde, CEO, N.V. Bekaert S.A., Kortrijk (Belgium), regarding current forces in management and the marketplace and the trends expected to be faced in the future.

  74. Redefining the Employee Value Proposition: New Developments in Asia-Pacific

    February 2005 | Executive Action Report

    How can a company develop an Employee Value Proposition fit to recruit, develop, inspire, and retain people in the talent-hungry Asia-Pacific region?

  75. Beyond Compliance: The Future of Risk Management

    January 2005 | Executive Action Report

    According to recent interviews with business managers, Enterprise Risk Management is gaining ground as a comprehensive approach for evaluating activities and assessing a multitude of risks associated with conducting business.

  76. Sound Fundamentals, Troubling Trends: U.S. Consumers Can’t Carry the Global Economy Indefinitely

    January 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Markets seem to view a U.S. slowdown as bad for America and good for everyone else; in actuality, nothing could be further from the truth.

  77. Future of Knowledge Management

    January 2005 | Executive Action Report

    The revolution never came—but that doesn’t mean that Knowledge Management is dead. In the ’90s, there was a belief that knowledge was critical of business and the gateway to innovation. KM was going to make a difference.

  78. Discretionary Income Trends: An Overview

    January 2005 | Executive Action Report

    A new study finds that the number of U.S. households with discretionary income rose over a five year period. Can the same be said for the proportion of households with discretionary income?

  79. EU Labor Productivity and Employment Improve in 2004—but U.S. Still Leads

    January 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Productivity and employment growth accelerated in the European Union, but the United States improved at about double the EU-25 growth rates. Will Europe be able to maintain and improve upon these results to reach global prosperity?

  80. Hispanic Market in 2010

    January 2005 | Executive Action Report

    By the close of the decade, Hispanics in the US are expected to represent more than $670 billion in spending power. Marketers will wish to take advantage of this opportunity, but do they understand this population well enough to do so?

  81. Measuring More Than Efficiency

    January 2005 | Research Report

    This survey based report provides both an overview of current HR metrics practices and a discussion of how these measures can be linked to strategic goals and initiatives.

  82. Measuring More Than Efficiency

    January 2005 | Executive Summary

    This survey based report provides both an overview of current HR metrics practices and a discussion of how these measures can be linked to strategic goals and initiatives.

  83. Navigating the Tsunami Relief Effort

    January 2005 | Executive Action Report

    Preventing outbreaks of diseases across tsunami-hit Asia and Africa is a race against time. The following information is meant to assist donors interested in participating in the tsunami relief efforts.

2004

  1. Corporate Participation in Community Recovery

    December 2004 | Executive Action Report

    This report discusses the six different recovery initiatives and how corporations can participate.

  2. Sample Disaster Relief Policies and Best Practices

    December 2004 | Executive Action Report

    This report details Johnson & Johnson, Merck and General Mills Foundation's handling of disaster relief.

  3. Key Lessons Learned from Putting a Disaster Plan into Action

    December 2004 | Executive Action Report

    This report presents the key lessons learned from carrying out disaster plans and the seven keys to preparedness should a catastrophe strike.

  4. Developing And Implementing A Disaster Response Plan - Getting Started

    December 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Getting started...basic steps on how to develop disaster strategy, guidelines and policies.

  5. Navigating The Tsunami Relief Effort

    December 2004 | Executive Action Report

  6. Future of the Annual General Meeting

    December 2004 | Research Report

    Based on The Conference Board’s second Corporate/Investor Summit, this report represents a unique consensus achieved on what is referred to as the annual general meeting (AGM) in Europe and the annual shareholder meeting in the United States.

  7. Improving Project Results: Operating “Below-the-Line” to Produce Real Value

    December 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Project teams and their sponsors rarely acknowledge the risk that their project’s outcomes will not translate into the intended benefits to the organization. How can you keep a project on track for real results?

  8. Succession Planning....Without Tears

    December 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Rather than putting off succession planning and then rushing to hire from the outside when the time arrives, small companies would be better served by grooming leaders from within the firm.

  9. CEO Challenge 2004: Perspectives and Analysis

    November 2004 | Research Report

    This report, based on The Conference Board's CEO Challenge 2004 Survey project, presents the findings of in-depth interviews with 11 CEOs from multinational companies, along with data and analysis of survey respondents' top priorities.

  10. Improving Communications Between Companies and Investors

    November 2004 | Research Report

    Based on The Conference Board’s Global Corporate Governance Research Center’s first transnational Corporate/Investor Summit, this report represents a unique consensus on best practices to improve communications between companies and investors.

  11. Strategy Struggles in the Boardroom

    November 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Corporate strategist Donald V. Potter finds board meetings do not do justice to strategy discussions. Are separate meetings with a set agenda the answer?

  12. Forget the Free Sodas – They Don’t Motivate Anyone

    November 2004 | Executive Action Report

    The real key to employee productivity lies in passion. What five things can managers do to make employees care?

  13. On the Record With...Stan Shih

    November 2004 | Executive Action Report

    An interview with Stan Shih, Chairman, CEO, and Founder, The Acer Group, Taipei, Taiwan, regarding current forces in management and the marketplace and the trends expected to be faced in the future.

  14. International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP make a difference?

    November 2004 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Sean M. Dougherty, Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, and Bart Van Ark, October 2004. - EPWP #04 - 03

  15. Hispanic Market in 2010

    November 2004 | Research Report

    This report profiles these consumers and predicts how their demographics will change by 2010.

  16. Work-Life and Diversity: Local Needs and Business Relevance Drive Success

    November 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Spurred on by the new European Union-wide anti-discrimination legislation, inclusion policies and practices are being adopted by Europe-based organisations. Which approaches will succeed?

  17. Security in Mid-Market Companies: Tackling the Challenge

    November 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Will the most important incentive for smaller companies to upgrade their security operations come from standards imposed by major corporations rather than those imposed by the government?

  18. On the Record With...Alain J.P. Belda

    October 2004 | Executive Action Report

    An interview with Alain J.P. Belda, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa, Inc., regarding current forces in management and the marketplace and the trends expected to be faced in the future

  19. On the Record With...Nandan M. Nilekani

    October 2004 | Executive Action Report

    An interview with Nandan M. Nilekani, CEO, President, Managing Director, and Co-Founder. Infosys Technologies, Ltd., regarding current forces in management and the marketplace and the trends expected to be faced in the future.

  20. Corporate Contributions - A Look at the Numbers

    October 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Corporate giving among the largest U.S. corporations is on the rise according to The Conference Board’s annual survey. For additional information see Report 1355.

  21. 2004 Corporate Contributions Report

    October 2004 | Research Report

    This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.

  22. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2004

    October 2004 | Research Report

    This annual report provides information on the amount and type of compensation paid outside directors in 2004 in 510 companies in three major industry sectors.

  23. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2004

    October 2004 | Executive Summary

    This annual report provides information on the amount and type of compensation paid outside directors in 2004 in 510 companies in three major industry sectors.

  24. 2004 Top Executive Compensation Report

    October 2004 | Research Report

    This annual report provides an overview of the practices of 2,896 publicly traded companies in 14 major industry categories.

  25. 2004 Top Executive Compensation Report

    October 2004 | Executive Summary

    This annual report provides an overview of the practices of 2,896 publicly traded companies in 14 major industry categories.

  26. Cops, Geeks, and Bean Counters: The Clashing Cultures of Corporate Security

    September 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Bridging the clash of cultures and creating a common frame of reference is essential if companies are to manage their total security needs in an effective manner.

  27. Unique Challenges of Developing World-Class Business Leaders in Asia Pacific

    September 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Although leadership development is a concern for CEOs worldwide, some of the challenges are exaggerated in the Asian Pacific context.

  28. Coaching Creates Relationships Essential to Business Success

    September 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Part one of a two part report finds that coaching should not be used to boost low performing employees, it should be reserved for those with potential. (See Executive Action 113 for part two.)

  29. Building Executive Coaching Capability That Delivers Business Results

    September 2004 | Executive Action Report

    The second part of a two piece report asks: Does coaching really work? Can the end result justify the financial means? (See Executive Action 112 for part one.)

  30. Restructuring for a Stronger European Union

    August 2004 | Executive Action Report

    If European policymakers greatly step up reforms, will it enable the European Union to become “the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world” by the end of the decade?

  31. Asia's New Era of Opportunity

    August 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Many changes have been made since the 1997-98 financial crisis in Asia. Can these changes provide Asian economies with a critical source of home-grown capital?

  32. Conducting Independent Investigations

    August 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Corporate leaders now must determine whether to conduct an independent investigation in response to a legal, regulatory, or corporate integrity crisis.

  33. CEO Challenge 2004: Top Ten Challenges (Executive Summary)

    August 2004 | Research Report

    This study, based on responses by over 500 Chief Executive Officers to this year's CEO Challenge 2004 Survey, provides an overview of the "Top 10 Challenges".

  34. Making Over Leaders and Leadership Styles

    August 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Are the requirements of leadership changing? That is the question being asked as a new generation rises in the workplace.

  35. Climate Change: Clear Trajectory—Haze in the Details

    August 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Climate change is a fact of life for business in the 21st century, and those that ignore the potential implications do so at their own peril.

  36. HR Outsourcing in Government Organizations

    August 2004 | Research Report

    This interview based report examines outsourcing of HR for government organizations, as the movement takes hold in government agencies.

  37. What Role for the Private Sector in Public Statistics?

    August 2004 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin, August 2004. - EPWP #04 - 02

  38. Women in Leadership: Putting Diversity Policies into Practice

    August 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Most large companies have diversity policies in place that include targets for recruiting and advancing more women into leadership roles, but they still face the challenges of implementing the policies successfully while growing their business.

  39. Structure of Business R&D: Recent Trends and Measurement Implications

    August 2004 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin, Robert Inklaar, Bart Van Ark, and Sean M. Dougherty, August 2004. - EPWP #04 - 01

  40. Adding Value in Shared Services . . . Insourcing, Outsourcing, and Offshoring

    July 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Companies are closely examining insourcing, outsourcing, and offshoring to decide which approach delivers the best support services at the lowest cost. What is the best solution?

  41. Keeping the Talent Pipeline Filled in the Energy and Utility Industries

    July 2004 | Research Report

    An in-depth look at how utility and natural resource companies are recovering from the power outages and scandals over recent years, in the face of losing the expertise of mature workers as they retire.

  42. Evolving Role of the Board in CEO and “Back Bench” Senior Executive Succession

    July 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Boards of Directors are becoming more involved in overall management succession. How can they ensure that the right leaders are in place to steer the company to be lucrative and principled.

  43. Consumers Going Online Before Going on the Road

    July 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Consumers tend to be using the Internet to research travel rather than booking it - with concern regarding credit card security the main reason for not making arrangements online.

  44. Security Practices ... Security in Mid-Market Companies: The View From the Top

    July 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Is corporate security an expense that should be minimized or an investment that increases business value?

  45. Outsourcing HR in the Power Utilities and Energy Industry

    June 2004 | Research Report

    This report looks at the direction HR outsourcing is taking via the cumulative results of 40 in-depth interviews with top HR and chief executives in the power and utilities industry.

  46. Salary Increase Budgets 2004-2005: Despite Recovery, Mood Remains Cautious

    June 2004 | Executive Action Report

    For a second straight year, median salary increases have dropped well below four percent even though U.S. business is rebounding.

  47. Defining The Values-Based Enterprise

    June 2004 | Executive Action Report

    A renewed interested in the concept of a values-based enterprise has emerged. At the heart of the values based enterprise is the belief that companies need both “private” and “public” capital to survive and prosper.

  48. China’s Experience with Productivity and Jobs

    June 2004 | Research Report

    China has undergone extensive industrial restructuring. While these changes have led to enormous productivity gains, they are also closely linked to the rapid loss of manufacturing jobs.

  49. CEOs and The Glass House

    May 2004 | Executive Action Report

    This report is based on John R. Hall's remarks to The Conference Board's Director Institute. Hall emphasized the need for boards to ensure that ethical procedures are followed, and the company's Chief Executive Officer carefully monitored.

  50. A Failure to Communicate . . .Twelve Habits of Effective Writers

    May 2004 | Executive Action Report

    With the advances in media and technology, getting your message delivered has never been easier. However, it is also easier than ever to be misunderstood or overlooked in today's deluged inboxes.

  51. Performance 2004

    May 2004 | Research Report

    This year’s report - the fourth annual in the series - covers economic performance through the end of 2003 by comparing productivity levels and growth rates of national economies.

  52. Strategic Planning for the Time-challenged

    May 2004 | Executive Action Report

    For many smaller and mid-sized companies, whose management resources tend to be stretched thin, a simplified approach to planning works best.

  53. Establishing Value For HR Technology

    May 2004 | Research Report

    This report examines the impact of HR technology initiatives on overall corporate business strategies and explores how these innovations are helping companies create value.

  54. Do Exchange Rates Matter?

    May 2004 | Research Report

    This survey based report provides deep insights into whether—and how— exchange rate volatility shapes business investment decisions and risk management practices.

  55. New Ways to Innovate... Creating a Corporate Advisory Board

    May 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Advisory Boards can offer companies a less expensive way to obtain the expertise they lack and fresh ideas on how to go about their business.

  56. Making Innovation Work: From Strategy to Practice

    April 2004 | Research Report

    This study examines how executives are making the business case for greater innovation, responding to cultural issues, creating support mechanisms, organizing teams, and measuring success.

  57. Making Innovation Work: From Strategy to Practice

    April 2004 | Executive Summary

    This study examines how executives are making the business case for greater innovation, responding to cultural issues, creating support mechanisms, organizing teams, and measuring success.

  58. Webcasting on the Corporate Intranet

    April 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Many large and medium sized companies are using webcasting to communicate with their employees, courtesy of high-bandwidth network connections.

  59. Shared Services and CRM

    April 2004 | Research Report

    This report investigates how organizations are using the new emphasis on both internal and external customers to confront the significant cultural and operational challenges they encounter when implementing new shared service initiatives.

  60. Redesigning HR for Mid-Sized Firms

    April 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Human Resources departments - of both large and mid-sized firms - choosing to outsource routine administrative tasks, are going through the same transitional pangs.

  61. HR Outsourcing: Benefits, Challenges, and Trends

    April 2004 | Research Report

    This report provides an updated snapshot of current practices in the field by comparing the results of an earlier study with the findings of a recent survey.

  62. Can Manufacturing Survive in Advanced Countries?

    March 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Job losses remain high in the manufacturing industry in the U.S. and in other developed nations, and are not being made up by greater job creation in expansions. What is the long-term impact of such job losses on a country’s ability to compete globally?

  63. International Business Cultures . . . Corporate Governance: An Asian Perspective

    March 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Corporate Governance initiatives in the U.S. are causing many countries around the world to review their best practices. Hong Kong is no exception, but their business leaders believe they should be implemented with characteristics unique to the region.

  64. Recruitment, Retention, and Ethics . . . Can You Interview for Integrity?

    March 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Many managers feel there is no way to scout out integrity when hiring employees. However, this report shows that there are questions that can be asked and simple steps taken during the interviewing process to prevent the hiring of unethical employees.

  65. Strategic Energy Management - The State of the Debate

    March 2004 | Research Report

    This report is based on a survey of senior executives to determine how businesses currently view and manage energy.

  66. Strategic Energy Management - The State of the Debate

    March 2004 | Executive Summary

    This report is based on a survey of senior executives to determine how businesses currently view and manage energy.

  67. New EU Directive Means Greater Corporate Environmental Liability Exposure

    February 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Once a new controversial law is passed, companies already operating in the EU will see their environmental liability exposure increase.

  68. Ethics Programs ... The Role of the Board: A Global Study

    February 2004 | Research Report

    This report addresses the proper role for company boards in the design, implementation, and monitoring for effectiveness of company ethics programs.

  69. Ethics Programs ... The Role of the Board: A Global Study

    February 2004 | Executive Summary

    This report addresses the proper role for company boards in the design, implementation, and monitoring for effectiveness of company ethics programs.

  70. New Member States Will Raise Productivity Growth of Enlarged European Union—but U.S. Lead Still Strong

    February 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Structural reforms in Central and Eastern Europe will significantly boost productivity growth in the European Union. Despite this growth, the United States is significantly ahead of the newly enlarged European Union.

  71. On the Record With....Sir Martin Sorrell

    February 2004 | Executive Action Report

    An interview with Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive Officer, WPP, London, UK, regarding current trends in management and the marketplace and how they expect these to change by 2008.

  72. Taking Global Brands to Japan: A Luxury Goods Market that is as Profitable as it is Unique

    February 2004 | Executive Action Report

    This report delves into how the profound social changes in Japan - brought about by a decade long recession - have allowed global luxury brands to blossom there.

  73. On the Record With....Daniel DiMicco

    January 2004 | Executive Action Report

    An interview with Daniel DiMicco, Vice-Chairman, President, and CEO, Nucor Corporation, Charlotte, NC, regarding current trends in management and the marketplace.

  74. Rebuilding Trust in Business . . .Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century

    January 2004 | Executive Action Report

    The challenges faced by corporations when deciding between commercial opportunity and being socially responsible is discussed by Unilever Chairman Niall FitzGerald.

  75. Integrated and Integrative Talent Management: A Strategic HR Framework

    January 2004 | Research Report

    This report looks at a range of talent management initiatives from the perspective of their integration.

  76. Integrated and Integrative Talent Management: A Strategic HR Framework

    January 2004 | Executive Summary

    This report looks at a range of talent management initiatives from the perspective of their integration.

  77. On the Record With....S. Dhanabalan

    January 2004 | Executive Action Report

    An interview with S. Dhanabalan, Chairman, Temasek Holdings (Pte) Ltd., Singapore regarding management and market challenges.

  78. Corporate Communications Trends... Ruling in Nike Case May Lead to Increased Corporate Self-Censorship

    January 2004 | Executive Action Report

    The repercussions from the lawsuit against Nike concerning its international employment practices, may cause the loss of free speech protection for businesses and an increase in false advertisement suits.

  79. Business Environment Abounds with Angry Questions: How to Answer a Zinger

    January 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Challenging questions are being asked today in the workplace. The key to dealing with the tough questions is to understand that they often have a genuine emotional component.

  80. Consumer Trends...Why People Shop Online

    January 2004 | Executive Action Report

    Online retail appears to be mostly about the price with nearly half of all online shoppers claiming bargain hunting as their motive.

2003

  1. Finding Direction . . .Taking Control of the Sustainability Agenda: Broadening the Role of Business

    December 2003 | Executive Action Report

    For business to adopt an enhanced corporate responsibility strategy and expect to realize short-term business benefits in the face of long-term global needs is likely unrealistic. This report explains why it is still important to develop such a strategy.

  2. Corporate Contributions in 2002

    December 2003 | Research Report

    This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.

  3. Corporate Contributions in 2002

    December 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.

  4. Branding Challenges in the Great China Breakout

    December 2003 | Executive Action Report

    The domestic market in China for many manufactured goods is heavily saturated in several sectors, leading to stiff competition and squeezing profit margins. This is causing Chinese manufacturers to launch their brands on the world market.

  5. Aggressive Energy Productivity Management Pays Big Dividends

    December 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Many companies have recognized that energy productivity is not a “nice to do” activity, but an important part of their business operations that can yield quantifiable cost savings and less directly-measurable general productivity improvements.

  6. Linking People Measures to Strategy

    December 2003 | Research Report

    This report, based on a survey of 110 participants, explores how organizations are applying human capital measures in their individual businesses.

  7. Linking People Measures to Strategy

    December 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report, based on a survey of 110 participants, explores how organizations are applying human capital measures in their individual businesses.

  8. Managing Customer Data for Strategic Advantage

    December 2003 | Research Report

    This report presents the findings of a recent survey of 45 companies on the goals, effectiveness, and importance of their customer data management programs.

  9. Entrepreneurial Flame: How to Keep it Burning Brightly in Your Company

    December 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Maintaining the enthusiasm and motivation of your most creative, entrepreneurial-minded employees is difficult even in the best of times. Learn how some successful companies manage to always keep the entrepreneurial spirit flourishing.

  10. Top Executive Compensation in 2002

    November 2003 | Executive Summary

    This annual report details the average 2002 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,877 companies in 14 major industry sectors.

  11. Top Executive Compensation in 2002

    November 2003 | Research Report

    This annual report details the average 2002 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,877 companies in 14 major industry sectors.

  12. Guanxi – In Chinese Business, the Relationship is Everything

    November 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Failing to understand and abide by the concept of guanxi, a set of relationships which links millions of Chinese firms into a social and business network, can mean the difference between success and failure for companies seeking to do business in China.

  13. Driving Toward ''0''

    November 2003 | Research Report

    This study is a benchmark on corporate safety culture and a rating of the policies and best practices that affect corporate safety performance.

  14. Driving Toward ''0''

    November 2003 | Executive Summary

    This study is a benchmark on corporate safety culture and a rating of the policies and best practices that affect corporate safety performance.

  15. European Perspective: Using Diversity and Work-Life Solutions to Retain a Competitive Edge

    November 2003 | Executive Action Report

    This report finds organizations that master the ability to effectively address the needs, challenges, and opportunities that diversity represents will be the ones that thrive globally.

  16. Compassionate Downsizing: Making the Business Case for Education and Training Services

    November 2003 | Research Report

    This report analyzes the results of a survey of senior human resources executives regarding recent layoffs and the offering of education and training benefits to downsized employees.

  17. Compassionate Downsizing: Making the Business Case for Education and Training Services

    November 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report analyzes the results of a survey of senior human resources executives regarding recent layoffs and the offering of education and training benefits to downsized employees.

  18. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2003

    November 2003 | Research Report

    This report, based on a survey of more than 606 manufacturing, financial, and service companies, presents the amount and type of compensation paid to outside directors in 2003.

  19. Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2003

    November 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report, based on a survey of more than 606 manufacturing, financial, and service companies, presents the amount and type of compensation paid to outside directors in 2003.

  20. Affluent Population: Current Assets and Future Demographics

    October 2003 | Executive Action Report

    The number of affluent households in the United States will continue to increase over the next seven years, according to a recent study. The report also finds despite recent financial setbacks, the portfolios of the well-to-do remain healthy.

  21. Managing Domain Names

    October 2003 | Executive Action Report

    A clear domain name policy coupled with a basic program to manage and secure domain names helps companies rationalize their digital assets, improve security, and strengthen the value of their brand on the Internet.

  22. CEO Challenge 2003: Top Marketplace and Management Issues

    October 2003 | Research Report

    This annual report presents the views of CEOs, Chairmen, and Founders on both current forces in the marketplace and the trends they expect to face in 2008.

  23. ICT and Productivity in Europe and the United States: Where Do the Differences Come From?

    October 2003 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar, and Robert H. McGuckin, October 2003. - EPWP #03 – 05

  24. Closing the Revolving Door: How To Ensure New Hires Stay

    October 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Here is what employers and employees need to do to avoid the “set-up-to-fail syndrome.”

  25. Is "Crisis Mode" The New Energy Management Norm?

    September 2003 | Executive Action Report

    In the United States, the traditional assumption about energy—abundant supplies at low cost—is being challenged by frequent "crises".

  26. Ethics Programs: The Role of the Board

    September 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Though recent events have imparted a new urgency to Board involvement and oversight of company ethics programs, a Conference Board study finds that such Board action is neither a new or a distinctly U.S. phenomenon.

  27. Managing Corporate Security in Mid-Markets

    September 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Compared to large companies, security spending is more of a burden for smaller companies when expressed as a percentage of annual sales and they are less likely to feel that their security spending is adequate.

  28. Job Satisfaction Continues to Wither

    September 2003 | Executive Action Report

    A new Conference Board survey finds less than half of workers are satisfied with their jobs—and the discontent is growing among all age groups and income levels.

  29. Get More Mileage From IT Investments

    September 2003 | Executive Action Report

    How to shift from a mindset of simply "installing technology" to one of "creating business payoff," so your company can maximize the value of its IT investments.

  30. Sustaining Customer Care in a Rapidly Changing Business World: A Snapshot of Practices

    September 2003 | Research Report

    This study attempts to gauge the fast-changing technologies and approaches taken in maximizing customer and, hence, corporate value.

  31. Forging Strategic Business Alignment

    September 2003 | Research Report

    This report identifies best practices in leading a successful alignment strategy from a senior management perspective.

  32. Forging Strategic Business Alignment

    September 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report identifies best practices in leading a successful alignment strategy from a senior management perspective.

  33. E-mail Management and Distribution Tools—A Primer

    August 2003 | Executive Action Report

    A sound management strategy of e-mail communication can produce important cost and customer retention benefits.

  34. Brain and Experience Drain: Are You Prepared for a Retirement Tsunami?

    August 2003 | Executive Action Report

    The mass retirement wave is not far off in the future—it is already here. What should you be doing to cope?

  35. Public Trust in Financial Markets Makes Modest Comeback

    July 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Two years after the Enron scandal focused spotlight on the excesses and abuses of corporations of all sizes and reputations triggering a crisis of public trust, there are signs that the public's confidence in financial markets is on the mend.

  36. New Role of Audit Committees

    July 2003 | Executive Action Report

    The audit committee plays a key role, but the proliferation of corporate scandals, new legislation, and stock exchange rules are creating critical new roles and responsibilities.

  37. Corporate Security Management: Organization and Spending Since 9/11

    July 2003 | Research Report

    This comprehensive study reveals business spending patterns since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

  38. Corporate Security Management: Organization and Spending Since 9/11

    July 2003 | Executive Summary

    This comprehensive study reveals business spending patterns since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

  39. Women Advance Slowly But Surely in Top Management Ranks

    July 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Although few senior male managers openly deride women's corporate ambitions, many—either consciously or unconsciously—undermine them.

  40. Outsourcing Trends

    July 2003 | Research Report

    This study examines the success factors and "next practices" in IT and business process outsourcing.

  41. Managing Corporate Security: Patterns of Organization

    July 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Despite raised expectations and heightened visibility, corporate America is undergoing an evolution rather than a revolution in the management of security concerns.

  42. Managing Corporate Security: Patterns of Spending

    July 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Except for risk management and insurance, corporate spending on security has increased only moderately since 9/11.

  43. Salary Increase Budgets 2003-2004: Business Remains in a Cautious Mood

    July 2003 | Executive Action Report

    With companies paying careful attention to controlling costs, median increases have moved significantly below 4 percent for the first time in a decade.

  44. Real-Time Tests of the Leading Economic Index: Do Changes in the Index Composition Matter?

    June 2003 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin and Ataman Ozyildirim, June 2003. - EPWP #03 – 04

  45. International Comparisons of R&D Expenditure: Does an R&D PPP make a difference?

    June 2003 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Sean M. Dougherty, Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, and Bart Van Ark, July 2003. - EPWP #03 - 03

  46. Mixing Politics and Business ... Conflict Everlasting?

    June 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Just how deep an impact the current atmosphere of distrust that pervades international political relations will have on global commerce depends on from which side of the Atlantic you view events.

  47. Human Resources at Corporate Headquarters: A Management Update

    June 2003 | Research Report

    This study of how companies currently organize the human resources function at their corporate headquarters highlights key roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.

  48. Corporate Behavior Standards: A Worldwide Call to Reform

    May 2003 | Executive Action Report

    The worldwide effort to restore public and investor trust in companies and their executives following recent corporate scandals in both the United States and Europe has spawned numerous calls for change in corporate conduct.

  49. Regional Headquarters: Roles and Organization

    May 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report examines a number of issues that are central to the existence and management of a regional organization and its headquarters in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

  50. Regional Headquarters: Roles and Organization

    May 2003 | Research Report

    This report examines a number of issues that are central to the existence and management of a regional organization and its headquarters in North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.

  51. New Dynamic of First Reports: Executive Lessons from the Iraq War

    May 2003 | Executive Action Report

    In the war with Iraq, first reports from the battlefield were handled in a new way, creating a different dynamic that until now has only been hinted at.

  52. Getting the Best of Volatility: Managing Risk and Creating Opportunity

    May 2003 | Executive Action Report

    While there is great risk in these volatile times, there is also great opportunity for those businesses that know what to do.

  53. Corporate Governance Best Practices: A Blueprint for the Post-Enron Era

    May 2003 | Research Report

    This blueprint best practices report is intended as a sourcebook of leading governance practices for board members and management.

  54. Making a Case for Corporate Sustainability Reporting

    May 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Key stakeholders are driving the move toward "triple bottom line" reporting, in which companies document the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of their businesses.

  55. Putting Women on Equal Footing

    April 2003 | Executive Action Report

    For women, the road to gender parity in the corporate world is potholed with "microinequities," such as being interrupted or ignored, having ideas credited to male colleagues, being excluded from activities, and having to deal with jokes that target women

  56. Marketing's New Path to Profitability

    April 2003 | Executive Action Report

    With budgets shrinking, the pressure is on marketers to demonstrate real and immediate returns on their investments. (Download Spanish version)

  57. Designing a Healthy Regional Headquarters

    April 2003 | Executive Action Report

    The key questions to answer when designing a regional headquarters are: How does it add value to the subordinate business unit? And how does it differ from the corporate office?

  58. Valuing Experience: How to Motivate and Retain Mature Workers

    April 2003 | Research Report

    This report examines the perspectives of HR executives and professionals on how to meet the needs of mature workers, attack workplace stereotypes, and encourage the transfer of valuable knowledge and skills.

  59. Valuing Experience: How to Motivate and Retain Mature Workers

    April 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report examines the perspectives of HR executives and professionals on how to meet the needs of mature workers, attack workplace stereotypes, and encourage the transfer of valuable knowledge and skills.

  60. Managing Supply Chain Risks

    April 2003 | Executive Action Report

    "Just-in-time" supply chain management, while providing the needed speed and visibility to operate in today's complex supply chain environment, also exposes companies to large-scale disruptions, especially in times of conflict.

  61. Traveling Green: Linking Executive Travel to Corporate, Community, and Environmental Values

    April 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Executive travel provides the next opportunity for organizations to demonstrate to their employees, suppliers, customers, and communities that they "walk the talk" on corporate citizenship.

  62. Emergency Response and Planning in Reaction to the Department of Homeland Security Advisory System

    April 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Corporations responding to a Conference Board survey consider a terrorist attack unlikely, but say such an event would have a major impact on their businesses. Are companies doing enough to mitigate the potential impact of a disaster?

  63. Reaching Out: Devising Individual Shareholder Programs

    March 2003 | Research Report

    This report investigates how individual shareholders contribute to the development of a corporation, and how corporations can best attract and retain their retail shareholders.

  64. Reaching Out: Devising Individual Shareholder Programs

    March 2003 | Executive Summary

    This report investigates how individual shareholders contribute to the development of a corporation, and how corporations can best attract and retain their retail shareholders.

  65. Travel in Uncertain Times

    March 2003 | Executive Action Report

    This report provides background information, along with tools and tactics for traveling safely and economically during periods of conflict and military action—and the accompanying heightened risks.

  66. New Career Paths for Science-Trained Professionals: A Progress Report on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Professional Science Master’s Degree Program

    March 2003 | Research Report

    This report describes a joint project of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and The Conference Board to help ensure that science and technology industries continue to constitute a highly promising sector for economic growth in the United States and worldwide.

  67. Employment Effects of the 'New Economy' A Comparison of the European Union and the United States

    March 2003 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar, Robert H. McGuckin, and Marcel P. Timmer, March 2003. - EPWP #03 - 02

  68. Performance 2002: Productivity, Employment, and Income in the World’s Economies

    March 2003 | Research Report

    This report compares productivity levels and growth rates of national economies and explains why Europe continues to lag behind the U.S. in per capita income, despite very comparable levels of productivity.

  69. Institutional Investment Report - March 2003

    February 2003 | Research Report

    Financial assets and equity holdings—patterns of institutional investment and control.

  70. Trends in Education: Creating the Scientific Equivalent of the MBA

    February 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Professional science master's programs at dozens of universities are attempting to meet the demand within science and technology industries for more focused, more industry-responsive and shorter, timelier graduate educational opportunities.

  71. A More Timely and Useful Index of Leading Indicators

    February 2003 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin, Ataman Ozyildirim and Victor Zarnowitz, February 2003. - EPWP #03 - 01

  72. Change—It's Getting Serious!!

    February 2003 | Executive Action Report

    Change efforts seem out of control and fraught with excessively painful repercussions. However jaded from experience, leaders everywhere still seem to hope for a better way.

  73. Emerging Trends... Europe Shifts Burden of Waste Disposal to Product Producers

    February 2003 | Executive Action Report

    What companies can do now to prepare for the expanded financial and physical burden of disposal at the end of a product's useful life?

  74. Security Today: The New Global Context

    January 2003 | Executive Action Report

    The most difficult aspect of the global security challenge is in understanding how to bring prosperity to poor countries. Government and international programs need to rethink their approaches to the incentive and market structures that drive prosperity.

  75. Corporate Contributions in 2001

    January 2003 | Research Report

    This annual overview of corporate giving, based on information supplied by 187 of the largest U.S. corporations, finds that overall giving budgets generally increased from 2000 to 2001.

  76. Corporate Contributions in 2001

    January 2003 | Executive Summary

    This overview of corporate giving in 2001, based on information supplied by 187 of the largest U.S. corporations, finds that overall giving budgets generally increased from 2000 to 2001.

  77. Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise

    January 2003 | Research Report

    This report details the recommendations on executive compensation, corporate governance, and accounting and audit practices made by The Conference Board's Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise.

  78. Productivity and Global Competitiveness... Despite Cyclical Downturn, Structural Trends in Productivity Remain in Place Into 2003

    January 2003 | Executive Action Report

    As the United States began to emerge from recession, labor productivity growth rebounded sharply in 2002. In Europe, however, it was another story—productivity growth slowed substantially.

  79. Crisis Management... Negligent Failure to Plan: The Next Liability Frontier?

    January 2003 | Executive Action Report

    How well has your organization planned for crisis? The answers you are able to give could have enormous consequences for your company, its bottom line, and its future.

  80. Hong Kong Corporates and Investor Confidence

    January 2003 | Research Report

    This corporate governance handbook for directors and officers of corporations in Hong Kong is based on interviews, seminars and research conducted by The Conference Board in Hong Kong during 2001 and 2002.

  81. Singapore Corporates and Investor Confidence

    January 2003 | Research Report

    This corporate governance handbook for directors and officers of corporations in Singapore is based on extensive research, seminars and focus group meetings, and personal interviews with senior executives in Singapore.

  82. India Corporates and Investor Confidence

    January 2003 | Research Report

    This corporate governance handbook for directors and officers of corporations in India is based on extensive field interviews with major Indian companies as well as focus group meetings with 40-50 executives of leading corporations in Mumbai and Delhi.

2002

  1. Getting Started... Building a Culture of Innovation

    December 2002 | Executive Action Report

    For businesses today, there are two roads to profitability. One is a short-term fix—reducing operating costs. The other road, the one less traveled, is a more sustainable option—creating profitable new business growth.

  2. Compensation Plans in Curious Times: Salary Increase Budgets Being Reduced

    December 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Most respondents to a Conference Board survey say their current 2003 salary increase budgets are now lower for most employee classes than originally planned.

  3. Beyond the Hype: E-nabling the Sales and Marketing Force

    December 2002 | Research Report

    This report describes the impact of e-nabling, defined as the implementation of digital and communication technologies for the purposes of improving performance and creating the real-time enterprise.

  4. Beyond the Hype: E-nabling the Sales and Marketing Force

    December 2002 | Executive Summary

    This report describes the impact of e-nabling, defined as the implementation of digital and communication technologies for the purposes of improving performance and creating the real-time enterprise.

  5. Planning for Energy-Based Business Risks

    December 2002 | Executive Action Report

    It is one of the true ironies of our times: growing concern over the future of energy at a time of abundant and generally inexpensive supplies of traditional energy forms. How should a company respond?

  6. 'Changing Gear' - Productivity, ICT and Services Industries: Europe and the United States

    December 2002 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Bart van Ark, Robert Inklaar, and Robert H. McGuckin, December 2002. Click here to obtain the basic data: http://www.ggdc.net/ - EPWP #02 - 02

  7. Re-sizing the American Corporation

    November 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Perhaps Enron—which by now has plenty of blue-chip companions (with possibly many more to come)—is just a symptom of a deeper movement under the sea.

  8. Top Executive Compensation in 2001

    November 2002 | Research Report

    This annual report details the average 2001 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,841 companies in 14 major industry sectors.

  9. Top Executive Compensation in 2001

    November 2002 | Executive Summary

    This annual report details the average 2001 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,841 companies in 14 major industry sectors.

  10. Voices of Experience: Mature Workers in the Future Workforce

    November 2002 | Research Report

    Presents the results of the Board's Life Planning Survey, which explored the retirement intentions and perspectives of 1645 employees aged 50 and above.

  11. Voices of Experience: Mature Workers in the Future Workforce

    November 2002 | Executive Summary

    Pesents the results of the Board's Life Planning Survey, which explored the retirement intentions and perspectives of 1645 employees aged 50 and above.

  12. Mission Critical: Controlling Costs—Setting Executive Travel Policies

    October 2002 | Executive Action Report

    This menu of tactics and options provides useful tools for cost-conscious companies to stay flexible in this period of ongoing volatility in executive travel.

  13. Context and Consequences - The U.S. Economy: 9/11 and the War on Terrorism

    October 2002 | Executive Action Report

    History shows the depth and length of the impact of 9/11 on the U.S. economy may not be as severe as many think.

  14. CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues-2002

    October 2002 | Research Report

    Our annual survey of more than 700 global CEOs leads strongly to the conclusion that CEOs and their senior managers are most concerned with the kinds of decisions and actions that are appropriate to a time of turmoil and transparency.

  15. HR Outsourcing Trends

    October 2002 | Executive Summary

    This study examines the benefits, challenges, and alternatives to HR outsourcing.

  16. Emphasis on Developing Leaders: Despite Hard Times Companies View Leadership Development as a Priority

    September 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Even during corporate belt-tightening leadership development is a necessity, not a luxury.

  17. HR Outsourcing Trends

    September 2002 | Research Report

    This study examines the benefits, challenges, and alternatives to HR outsourcing.

  18. HR Technology Strategies: What is Driving Them Today?

    September 2002 | Research Report

    This study considers the HR technology plans and strategies of some major organizations.

  19. HR Technology Strategies: What is Driving Them Today?

    September 2002 | Executive Summary

    This study considers the HR technology plans and strategies of some major organizations.

  20. One Year After: The Leadership and Communication Dilemma of 9-11-02

    August 2002 | Executive Action Report

    For corporate leaders on the anniversary of 9/11, listening may become more important than speaking.

  21. Are You the Next Enron? Why you might be . . . and what to do about it

    August 2002 | Executive Action Report

    A Conference Board survey finds that even corporate ethics officers believe there is still more talk than action going on when it comes to ethics in the business world.

  22. Sustaining the Talent Quest: Getting and Keeping the Best People in Volatile Times

    August 2002 | Research Report

    This report uses surveys and personal interviews to look at the shifting landscape of recruitment and retention through volatile economic times and the new strategies some companies are using to cope with these changes.

  23. Sustaining the Talent Quest: Getting and Keeping the Best People in Volatile Times

    August 2002 | Executive Summary

    This report uses surveys and personal interviews to look at the shifting landscape of recruitment and retention through volatile economic times and the new strategies some companies are using to cope with these changes.

  24. Mission Critical: Controlling Costs ... Overview: Cut the Costs, But Not the Trust

    July 2002 | Executive Action Report

    When it comes to costs, crash dieting does not make companies stronger in the long run—developing a "cost-conscious culture" does.

  25. Mission Critical: Controlling Costs ... Marketing Costs: The Efficiencies Provided by Targeted Approaches

    July 2002 | Executive Action Report

    One danger in attempting to contain marketing costs: If a company's value proposition is compromised then cost-cutting becomes counterproductive.

  26. Mission Critical: Controlling Costs ... Compassionate Downsizing: Making the Business Case for Education and Training for Transitioned Employees

    July 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Few organizations consider (or have the ability to quantify) the longer-term hidden costs of downsizing to their corporate reputation, customer loyalty, and employee morale, incentive, and productivity.

  27. Corporate Citizenship in the New Century: Accountability, Transparency, and Global Stakeholder Engagement

    July 2002 | Research Report

    This report, based on the views and experiences of corporate managers of citizenship programs, CEOs, and board members at over 700 companies, examines the state of global corporate citizenship practices, expectations, and trends.

  28. Corporate Citizenship in the New Century: Accountability, Transparency, and Global Stakeholder Engagement

    July 2002 | Executive Summary

    This report, based on the views and experiences of corporate managers of citizenship programs, CEOs, and board members at over 700 companies, examines the state of global corporate citizenship practices, expectations, and trends.

  29. Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Arrive: Are Capital Markets Addressing New Business and Investment Risk Factors?

    July 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Perhaps the only thing that is certain today in global capital markets is that traditional performance measures are not capturing important investment risk factors.

  30. Women in Leadership: A European Business Imperative

    July 2002 | Executive Action Report

    When an organization puts women in key leadership positions they become a magnet for talented women and men.

  31. Europe Vs. The United States: Which Industries are Leading the Productivity Race?

    June 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Good and bad news for Europe, technology as a growth factor, ICT vs. non-ICT sectors, and industry leaders and laggards.

  32. After Enron It's Back to Basics: 10 Questions Boards of Directors Need to Ask

    June 2002 | Executive Action Report

    The adversarial history of corporate governance, the responsibilities required of directors, effective board processes, and red flag processes.

  33. Salary Increase Budgets

    June 2002 | Executive Action Report

    2002 increases fell in many industries; a rebound is projected for 2003.

  34. Global Climate Change: Fact or Fiction? It Doesn't Matter--The Issue is Here to Stay

    June 2002 | Executive Action Report

    This report argues that while science is unlikely to provide unequivocal answers to the debate, governments and markets are likely to act on their perception of the science--actions which will have an impact on global business.

  35. Value at Work: The Risks and Opportunities of Human Capital Measurement and Reporting

    May 2002 | Research Report

    This study focuses on why and how companies are measuring their HC, how they are creating and using HC measures; and why and how they elect or decline to report HC measures to the investment community.

  36. Value at Work: The Risks and Opportunities of Human Capital Measurement and Reporting

    May 2002 | Executive Summary

    This study focuses on why and how companies are measuring their HC, how they are creating and using HC measures; and why and how they elect or decline to report HC measures to the investment community.

  37. North American Outlook 2002-2003

    May 2002 | Research Report

    The Conference Board’s economic forecasts for Canada, the United States, and Mexico in 2002-2003.

  38. North American Outlook 2002-2003

    May 2002 | Executive Summary

    The Conference Board’s economic forecasts for Canada, the United States, and Mexico in 2002-2003.

  39. High Performers: How the Best Companies Find and Keep Them

    May 2002 | Executive Action Report

    best practices--all resting on important changes in what employees value--for finding and keeping high peforming employees.

  40. Don't Underestimate China: Why Chinese Businesses Can Grow Into Serious International Competitors

    May 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Businesses that follow conventional wisdom and assume that Chinese-owned enterprises will be weak competitors on the international business stage may be unpleasantly surprised.

  41. Institutional Investment Report - May 2002

    May 2002 | Research Report

    Equity ownership and investment strategies of U.S. and international institutional investors.

  42. Coping With the Coming Wave of Web Communication

    April 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Looks at Web conferencing and collaboration systems: how they work, how to create a successful enterprise strategy for them, and their outlook.

  43. Developing Business Leaders for 2010

    April 2002 | Research Report

    *NOTE:Some data has been corrected.* This study, based on extensive interview and survey data, addresses the efforts of leading-edge companies to develop the leadership strength they will need to ensure competitive success in the coming years.

  44. Developing Business Leaders for 2010

    April 2002 | Executive Summary

    The demands on today's leaders and those of the next generation will continue to grow. This study, based on extensive interview and survey data, addresses the efforts of leading-edge companies to develop the leadership strength they need.

  45. Morality and the Bottom Line: The Growth of Anti-Corruption Programs in the Private Sector

    April 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Addresses global progress being made against corruption, the components of an effective corporate anti-corruption program, the effectiveness of ethics programs, and spreading the anti-corruption word.

  46. Human Resources—Doing More With Even Less

    March 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Describes the competing priorities HR departments are currently faced with, evidence for the resilience and excellence of HR contributions, and the outlook for HR.

  47. Transforming the Supply Chain

    March 2002 | Research Report

    This report is based on a survey of supply chain executives, who comment on organizing for the supply chain effort, the role of suppliers, and the use of new technologies (including e-purchasing and B2B marketplaces).

  48. World Summit on Sustainable Development: Why Business Should Care

    March 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Explains why businesses need to care about the World Summit on Sustainable Development and what they can expect from it.

  49. Enron Ethics Breakdown

    February 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Focuses on the business ethics issues raised by the conduct of Enron's directors, officers, accountants, and lawyers.

  50. Role of Business in Zones of Crisis

    February 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Discusses what businesses can do in zones of conflict, the role of business in failing states, and how companies can contribute to a country's redevelopment.

  51. Does Your Board Have an Effective Management System of Its Own?

    February 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Reviews the key areas directors should focus on to ensure they meet their increasingly stringent fiduciary liability.

  52. Effects of Federalism and Privatization on Productivity in Chinese Firms

    January 2002 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Sean M. Dougherty and Robert H. McGuckin, January 2002. - EPWP #02 - 01

  53. CEOs on Citizenship

    January 2002 | Executive Action Report

    Summarizes the results of surveys of managers, board members, and chief executives on corporate citizenship.

  54. Business Conduct Codes: Why Corporations Hesitate

    January 2002 | Executive Action Report

    A survey of companies looks at how sensitive the issue of code and guideline endorsement is for corporations and why.

  55. Corporate Community Development: Meeting the Measurement Challenge

    January 2002 | Research Report

    This report presents four case studies of corporate community economic development projects: Renew Moline (undertaken by John Deere); Siyeza Foods (General Mills): Project Zero / Grand Rapids (Cascade Engineering); and Harlem USA (JPMorganChase).

  56. Restructuring Chinese Enterprises: Effects of Federalism and Privatization Initiatives on Business

    January 2002 | Research Report

    This report examines the progress of China’s transition to a market economy by assessing how its program of increased federalism and more private ownership has affected business productivity.

  57. Road to Sustainability: Business’ First Steps

    January 2002 | Research Report

    This publication outlines the concept of sustainability and its evolution as an issue for business, and describes its implications for corporate operations. A major section is devoted to the role of external influences or “drivers” for sustainability.

2001

  1. Time Series Decomposition and Measurement of Business Cycles, Trends and Growth Cycles

    December 2001 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Victor Zarnowitz and Ataman Ozyildirim, December 2001. - EPWP #01 - 03

  2. Rebuilding Lower Manhattan: The Need for Cross-Sector Collaboration

    December 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Characterizes the challenges rebuilding Lower Manhattan will pose to the private, government, and nonprofit sectors and the what the likely results will be.

  3. Branding on Site: Customer Relationships in the Digital Marketplace

    December 2001 | Research Report

    Done in collaboration with a Working Group of branding / marketing executives from 12 U.S. companies, this study examines how major firms are adjusting their branding strategies to embrace the Web as a new communications channel.

  4. Dealing With Employee Travel Fears

    December 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Discusses travel safety concerns, how companies can assist employees in overcoming them, new airport safety measures, components of a comprehensive disaster plan, travel tips for individuals, coping with anxiety, and online resources.

  5. When Disaster Strikes: Ensuring an Intact Supply Chain

    November 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Addresses the factors in place that lessened the damage to the U.S. global supply chain post-September 11th and those areas of supply chain function that were affected by the tragedy, the anthrax mail incidents, and the war against terrorism.

  6. Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Management Challenges

    November 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Assists senior executives in becoming conversant with current security issues, including how to integrate it in the management process, the question of cost, protection procedures and contingency plans, and supply chain and product security.

  7. Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Bioterrorism

    November 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Deals with mailroom procedures and the risk of bioterrism.

  8. Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Protecting IT

    November 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Discusses ensuring IT security, and IT recovery and response procedures.

  9. Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Concerns for International Business Travelers

    November 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Addresses current security issues in business travel and emergency evacuation from overseas locations.

  10. Corporate Security in a Time of Crisis: Online Security Resources

    November 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Lists Web resources for current security issues, including management challenges, bioterrorism, protecting IT, and concerns for international business travelers.

  11. Compensation in a Changed Economy

    November 2001 | Executive Action Report

    A survey of HR council members looks at the effects of the economic downturn and September 11 on companies' 2002 compensation plans.

  12. Managing Culture in Mergers and Acquisitions

    November 2001 | Research Report

    This study of cultural issues is designed to provide executives with a range of ideas and practices to improve the management of mergers and acquisitions and to contribute to the overall success of post-merger integration.

  13. Tomorrow Is Not Yesterday

    October 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Commentary on the post-September 11th global economic environment.

  14. Management Challenges in a Changed World

    October 2001 | Executive Action Report

    Based on key issues identified by members of the executive Council program.

  15. Compensation Committee Of The Board: Best Practices For Establishing Executive Compensation

    October 2001 | Research Report

    This study examines best practice processes used by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors in designing executive compensation programs.

  16. Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Conservation of Forests, Farmlands, and Wetlands

    October 2001 | Research Report

    This report outlines the current status of agreements between government, business, and non-governmental organizations for the preservation of open spaces.

  17. Diversity Executive: Tasks, Competencies, and Strategies for Effective Leadership

    October 2001 | Research Report

    Seventy-one diversity executives, representing some of America's leading corporations, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations, share best practices and recommendations on setting standards for effective diversity leadership.

  18. Making the Most of the Information Age: Productivity and Structural Reform in the New Economy

    October 2001 | Research Report

    Using new, internationally comparative evidence, this study examines the patterns of information and communication technology diffusion across advanced industrial economies.

  19. Role of B2B Exchanges and Implications for the Future

    August 2001 | Research Report

    This report provides an overview of B2B exchanges and implications for the future based current activities and projections by participants in the B2B process.

  20. Global Investor and Corporate Governance: What do Institutional Investors Want?

    August 2001 | Research Report

    This report looks at the major corporate governance issues of interest to, and intervention strategies used by, institutional investors around the world today.

  21. Customer Relationship Management: New Ways of Keeping the Customer Satisfied

    August 2001 | Research Report

    This report examines planning and implementation practices for Customer Relationship Management and pinpoints keys to success among B2C and B2B practitioners across a range of industries.

  22. Executive Insights: Merging and Acquiring for Growth

    July 2001 | Research Report

    This report examines data on successful mergers that have fueled top-line growth.

  23. Why All the Uncertainty, Fear and Doubt? Are Mergers and Acquisitions Bad for Workers?

    June 2001 | Research Report

    This study examines the effects of ownership changes on employment, wages, and plant closing for the entire U.S. manufacturing sector for the period 1977-1987.

  24. Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Promoting the Hiring of Workers with Disabilities

    June 2001 | Research Report

    This publication documents corporate participation in many federal, state, and local programs designed to promote meaningful employment for persons with disabilities.

  25. Business Cycle Indicators Handbook

    June 2001 | Book

    The Business Cycle Indicators Handbook, describes in detail the series in the BCI report and database, and includes articles discussing the value and use of the cyclical indicator approach.

  26. E-Business Strategies in the Global Marketplace: E-Procurement and Other Challenges

    June 2001 | Research Report

    A survey of U.S. and European organizations shows that development of an e-procurement program is proving more complex, more expensive and more time consuming than originally envisaged.

  27. ERP Trends

    June 2001 | Research Report

    This report is based on the findings of a survey on ERP, which found that while most ERP implementations take more time and money than expected, the majority of companies are pleased with their outcomes.

  28. Organizing for Global Competitiveness

    May 2001 | Research Report

    The Role of Corporate Headquarters and Its Leadership in Organizational Integration.

  29. Engaging Employees Through Your Brand

    April 2001 | Research Report

    This report compares corporate and employer branding methods and provides benchmarks for successful implementation of programs to engage your employees through your brand.

  30. Workforce Diversity and Productivity: An Analysis of Employer-Employee Match Data

    April 2001 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Linda Barrington and Kenneth R. Troske, April 2001. - EPWP #01 - 02

  31. Managing Growth: Smart Strategies for Smaller and Mid-Sized Companies

    March 2001 | Research Report

    Based on a survey of 184 CEOs from small and mid-sized companies, this report explores what these CEOs see as their best growth opportunities in the current economy.

  32. Performance 2000: Productivity, Employment, and Income in the World's Economies

    March 2001 | Research Report

    Examines accelerating U.S. productivity and the new challenges it provides to advanced economies.

  33. IT Outsourcing Trends

    March 2001 | Research Report

    Based on a survey of 150 IT and business executives, this report looks at how information technology is leading the surge in outsourcing in the United States and Europe.

  34. Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: The United States Army and the Private Sector

    February 2001 | Research Report

    An overview of the "Investment in America Forum," held in June 2000 in Washington.

  35. Corporate Governance:Global Trends Examined From an Asian Perspective

    January 2001 | Research Report

    This briefing paper compares corporate governance initiatives in Asia with those underway in other parts of the world and finds the notion of an "Anglo-Saxon" or "Asian" governance model irrelevant.

  36. CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues 2001

    January 2001 | Research Report

    506 CEOs of U.S., European, and Asian companies select the top three "marketplace" and "management" challenges they face in 2001.

  37. Old and the New in the U.S. Economic Expansion

    January 2001 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Victor Zarnowitz, January 2001. - EPWP #01 - 01

2000

  1. Knowledge Management: Becoming an E-Learning Organization

    December 2000 | Research Report

    This report focuses on the role of knowledge management and organizational learning within the New Economy.

  2. Composite Index of Leading Economic Indicators: How to Make it More Timely

    November 2000 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin, Ataman Ozyildirim and Victor Zarnowitz, November 2000. - EPWP #00 - 01

  3. Doing Good and Doing Well:Making the Business Case for Corporate Citizenship

    November 2000 | Research Report

    This report draws on the themes of the 2000 Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship.

  4. Company Programs for Resisting Corrupt Practices: A Global Study

    October 2000 | Research Report

    This report looks at policies, practices, and procedures that represent standards of best practice for company efforts to resist corrupt practices.

  5. Post-Merger Integration: A Human Resources Perspective

    September 2000 | Research Report

    This study focuses on the experiences of 134 major U.S. firms that have recently completed a merger integrating the buyer's and seller's culture, organization, practices or resources.

  6. Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Welfare-to-Work Initiatives

    September 2000 | Research Report

    This report describes national businesses that have surpassed their expected capacity as employers of welfare-to-work hires by collaborating with local partners to resolve major challenges to sustained employment and economic development.

  7. Link Between Corporate Governance and Performance: Year 2000 Update

    August 2000 | Research Report

    This report updates an earlier (1998) survey on published evidence on the link between corporate governance and corporate performance.

  8. E-Commerce Tax Policy and Planning: Domestic and International

    August 2000 | Research Report

    This report details the many issues with which a senior corporate executive involved in electronic business should be familiar

  9. Computers and Productivity: Are Aggregation Effects Important?

    August 2000 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin and Kevin Stiroh, August 2000. - EPWP #00 - 04

  10. Performance Measurement During Merger and Acquisition Integration

    July 2000 | Research Report

    This study demonstrates the contribution of performance measurement to the success of merger or acquisition integration.

  11. Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Corporate Citizenship

    June 2000 | Research Report

    The report addresses the impact of a merger or acquisition on the corporate citizenship of the companies involved, and emphasizes the perspectives of communities, employees, and corporate citizenship executives.

  12. Corporate Governance and Cross-Border Mergers

    June 2000 | Research Report

    This report discusses the role of corporate governance before, during, and after a cross-border merger.

  13. Employee Communication During Mergers

    June 2000 | Research Report

    This report addresses employee communications before, during, and after a corporate merger or acquisition. Best practices and examples from companies that have achieved successful employee communication are also presented.

  14. Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats?

    June 2000 | Research Report

    America's full-time working poor reap limited gains in the new economy.

  15. Debating European Corporate Governance Issues

    May 2000 | Research Report

    This report focuses on corporate governance issues that dominate the current debate in Europe, particularly how successfully European governance models and practices position companies to compete for global capital.

  16. Speed: Linking Innovation, Process and Time to Market

    May 2000 | Research Report

    Through a survey and interviews, The Conference Board contacted over 100 firms in the U.S. and Europe to explore the impact of speeding-up key business processes.

  17. Corporate Environmental Governance: Benchmarks Toward a World-Class System

    May 2000 | Research Report

    This study probes the planning, development, and implementation processes of environmental management systems within 45 leading organizations.

  18. Electronic Business Outlook

    April 2000 | Research Report

    This report offers insight into best, worst, and breakthrough e-business practices around the world, as well as into prioritizing and designing e-business initiatives.

  19. Do Computers Make Output Harder to Measure?

    April 2000 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by Robert H. McGuckin and Kevin Stiroh, April 2000. - EPWP #00 - 03

  20. Valuing People in the Change Process

    March 2000 | Research Report

    This report addresses the ways in which change affects organizations, focusing on the value of employees in the change process.

  21. Office of the Chief Executive: Current Patterns and Challenges

    March 2000 | Research Report

    This study explores the current state of the executive office.

  22. Beyond Knowledge Management: New Ways to Work

    March 2000 | Research Report

    This report, based on a survey and Working Group discussions, takes an empirical look at knowledge management and organizational learning efforts occurring inside large companies.

  23. Impact of Vintage and Survival on Productivity: Evidence from Cohorts of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

    February 2000 | Economics Program Working Paper Series

    by J. Bradford Jensen, Robert H. McGuckin and Kevin Stiroh, February 2000. - EPWP #00 - 02

  24. Are Poor Nations Closing the Gap in Living Standards?: Perspectives on a Global Economy

    January 2000 | Research Report

    This report addresses GDP growth as well as alternative measures of living standards in order to take up the question of whether globalization's benefits have spread worldwide.

  25. Implementing a Post-Merger Integration

    January 2000 | Research Report

    Executives and business experts discuss some of the global trends in M&A and share their experiences in developing a strategic context for M&A integration, creating a corporate culture, and measuring integration success.

  26. Perspectives on a Global Economy

    January 2000 | Research Report

    A look at productivity and living standards around the world, and the impact they have on business.

1999

  1. Community Connections: Strategic Partnerships in the Digital Industries

    November 1999 | Research Report

    This report presents the business case for digital industry companies to partner with nonprofits and governments in strategic community investment activities.

  2. Determining Board Effectiveness

    November 1999 | Research Report

    Organized around key issues, this handbook draws on the experience of seasoned board directors and leading corporate governance experts to tackle the challenges boards face as they review their structural and decision-making processes.

  3. Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Public Safety Initiatives

    October 1999 | Research Report

    The report profiles four case studies of the partnering of law enforcement agencies and community activists.

  4. Diversity: An Imperative for Business Success

    October 1999 | Research Report

    This conference report addresses the business rationale behind implementing diversity and tools for making inclusiveness a reality within companies.

  5. Aligning Strategic Performance Measures and Results

    October 1999 | Research Report

    This research report offers key findings that demonstrate the capability of strategic performance measurement systems to improve business results.

  6. Measuring Prices in a Dynamic Economy: Re-Examining the CPI

    October 1999 | Research Report

    Nine recommendations from a blue-ribbon panel of economists on how to improve the way that the Consumer Price Index tracks prices in our ever-evolving economy.

  7. Consumer Expectations on the Social Accountability of Business

    September 1999 | Research Report

    This report, based on a survey of 1,000 consumers, is designed to help companies better understand the factors and the perceptions that drive public opinion of the role of business.

  8. Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership

    September 1999 | Research Report

    Based on the best practices of the winners of and exemplary candidates for the Ron Brown Award, 25 companies representing multiple approaches to employee support and corporate citizenship are presented.

  9. Aligning Performance Measures and Incentives in European Companies

    August 1999 | Research Report

    This report provides survey data and case studies to demonstrate that European companies are increasingly aligning executive compensation incentives to performance measures.

  10. Turning Skills Into Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace Education Programs

    July 1999 | Research Report

    Employers report that at least one employee skill and one economic benefit is gained from the workplace education program.

  11. Work-Life Initiatives in a Global Context

    June 1999 | Research Report

    This report, based on the 1999 Work and Family conference in New York, evaluates how this strain affects workers and businesses on a global level.

  12. Corporate Contributions: The View From Fifty Years

    June 1999 | Research Report

    This report examines the history of corporate contributions.

  13. CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues

    June 1999 | Research Report

    What are the top bosses thinking? Find out in this survey, where more than 650 CEOs say what's on their minds.

  14. Globalizing the Board of Directors: Trends and Strategies

    June 1999 | Research Report

    Are you trying to take your organization's board global? You should. Here's a look at the ways to go about it.

  15. Post-Merger Organization Handbook

    June 1999 | Research Report

    Your company's just been merged. Now how do you blend your staffs, operations and resources to make it work? The answers are here.

  16. Expanding Parameters of Global Corporate Citizenship

    June 1999 | Research Report

    This report examines the increasingly complex world of global corporate citizenship, and describes the efforts of leading multinational practitioners to reconcile financial and societal goals

  17. Future Organization: New Leadership and Employee Roles

    June 1999 | Research Report

    As traditional command-and-control management structures crumble in the dawning information era, companies are scrambling to build new organizational models

  18. Communicating in the Future

    June 1999 | Research Report

    What's the best way to manage your company's relations with the media? What about using your Intranet to reach your employees? The answers are here.

  19. Global Corporate Ethics Practices: A Developing Consensus

    May 1999 | Research Report

    Learn the trends and procedures being used to formulate and implement global business ethics principles, and how the formulation of these codes has become a more dynamic inclusive process.

  20. Power of Marketing Innovation

    March 1999 | Research Report

    Will interactive marketing give your company the edge? Can you revive "lost" customers? These and other questions are answered in this report featuring the experience of Colgate-Palmolive, IBM, and Kodak, among others.

  21. Organizing for Global Competitiveness: The Corporate Headquarters Design

    March 1999 | Research Report

    How should you organize corporate headquarters to compete successfully around the world? This survey shows how 89 organizations do it.

  22. Are Bigger Banks Better?

    March 1999 | Research Report

    Do large bank holding companies do a better job of controlling costs and boosting profits than small ones? The answers—and the implications from them—might surprise you.

  23. Euro-What Impact Will It Have on European Labor Markets: Perspectives on a Global Economy

    February 1999 | Research Report

    Work participation has fallen in Europe - will the Euro put more pressure on European workers? This study discusses the answer.

  24. Understanding Productivity Growth: Entry, Survival, and the Competitive Process

    February 1999 | Research Report

    Do new plants outperform old plants? This study looks at a variety of factors to answer that question.

  25. Forging an Effective Sales Organization

    February 1999 | Research Report

    Without a solid sales organization, your corporation could be out of luck or even out of business. Here's a look at the successful steps some companies have taken.

  26. Link Between Corporate Citizenship and Financial Performance

    February 1999 | Research Report

    Does playing the good corporate citizen help your organization? This report finds: Sometimes.

  27. Concepts for the New Leadership

    February 1999 | Research Report

    What will be the corporate challenges of the future? Read what the CEOs of Merck and Sprint have to say, as well as leaders from Harvard University and Time.

  28. Board Diversity in U.S. Corporations: Best Practices for Broadening the Profile of Corporate Boards

    January 1999 | Research Report

    Major organizations have found that diversity at the board level is a tool for success. This study covers the how's and why's of board diversity.

1998

  1. Continuing Search For Performance Excellence

    December 1998 | Research Report

    Learn from the experiences of companies who've instituted performance-excellence initiatives, and take a look at the future in this field.

  2. Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Educational Initiatives

    November 1998 | Research Report

    The early results from these partnerships are far from definitive, but they sure look promising.

  3. Using Technology to Strengthen Employee & Family Involvement in Education

    October 1998 | Research Report

    Today's students are tomorrow's workforce and consumers. What can corporations do to help their education be productive? Here's some practical experience.

  4. How Growth Creates Value: Aligning Your Enterprise

    September 1998 | Research Report

    Here's how some companies have planned for growth—and succeeded.

  5. Returning to Consumer-Based Healthcare

    July 1998 | Research Report

    Is there a major organization that doesn't have healthcare concerns? Look to this report for a view of things to come.

  6. Asia After the Crisis—Challenges for a Return to Rapid Growth: Perspectives on a Global Economy

    July 1998 | Research Report

    What will happen when the current crisis in Asia abates? Is the long-term outlook favorable? Find out in this report.

  7. Understanding the People Factors in the Quest for Competitiveness

    July 1998 | Research Report

    Ultimately, corporate success comes down to your people. Here's a look at creating the right attributes in management and staff.

  8. SAP Implementation: Strategies and Results

    July 1998 | Research Report

    SAP can be a wonderful tool and a daunting challenge for a corporation. Here's the experience of more than 180 companies who've used SAP.

  9. Building the Corporate Community Economic Development Team

    July 1998 | Research Report

    There are benefits to be harvested by investing in community development, as this study of the experience of 119 companies shows.

  10. Managing Knowledge in the New Economy

    June 1998 | Research Report

    What is knowledge management? And why should your company be using it? Find out with this report.

  11. Using Market Mechanisms in Environmental Regulation

    June 1998 | Research Report

    Will the market drive companies to "better" behavior regarding the environment? Here's a look at answers to that question.

  12. Managing the Corporate Brand

    May 1998 | Research Report

    Companies want more out of their brand—and this report looks at successful methods for getting it.

  13. Link Between Corporate Governance & Performance

    May 1998 | Research Report

    Does the way a company is governed affect its performance? Find out in this report.

  14. Computers, Productivity, and Growth: Explaining the Computer Productivity Paradox

    April 1998 | Research Report

    Studies say that computers don't add to productivity, but that's not what our researchers found. Read their findings in this report.

  15. Managing Reputation with Image and Brands

    April 1998 | Research Report

    How can you take full advantage of one of your company's biggest assets? This report captures the experience of some of Europe and the United States' best known companies.

  16. Bridging the Leadership Gap

    April 1998 | Research Report

    Does your company develop leaders properly? Here's a look at what members of the Fortune 1000 do.

  17. Shared Services: Achieving Higher Levels of Performance

    March 1998 | Research Report

    Is shared services an idea whose time has come? Read how it's worked for these major organizations.

  18. Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Environmental Initiatives

    March 1998 | Research Report

    Is a partnership between your company and a regulatory agency a possibility? Maybe it should be. Here are some keys to making it work.

  19. Meeting the Challenge of Global Logistics

    February 1998 | Research Report

    As the entire world provides you with suppliers, your challenges—and opportunities—in logistics grow. Here's a look at what you can do.

  20. Transforming the HR Function for Global Business Success

    February 1998 | Research Report

    HR executives are ramping up to work with line managers on global business issues. Here's a look at what's happening.

  21. Global Growth Strategies

    January 1998 | Research Report

    How do you create global growth — and once you're growing, how do you keep going? Here's the experience of senior executives and CEOs on managing growth.

  22. A Business Guide to Support Employee and Family Involvement in Education

    January 1998 | Research Report

    Your employees care about their families' educations — so you need to care. This report covers the experiences of major corporations' education initiatives.

1997

  1. Technology, Productivity and Growth: U.S. and German Issues: Perspectives on a Global Economy

    December 1997 | Research Report

    Here's a hard look at "productivity" and the myth of the "computer productivity paradox."

  2. Value of Training in the Era of Intellectual Capital

    October 1997 | Research Report

    How can you get the most bang for your bucks with your training programs? This report presents the experiences of more than 300 senior executives in the HR and training fields.

  3. Investing in Profitable Customer Relationships

    October 1997 | Research Report

    Every time you sell product or service to a customer, you should be learning something as well. Here's how to learn — and profit — from those transactions.

  4. Managing Diversity for Sustaining Competitiveness

    September 1997 | Research Report

    The diversity of your workforce can be a big advantage for you — if you know how to harness it. Here's how.

  5. Corporate Response to HIV/AIDS

    August 1997 | Research Report

    The Conference Board joined with the United Nations to create this report on the epidemic striking people and businesses around the world.

  6. Corporate Contributions Plan: From Strategy to Budget

    August 1997 | Research Report

    Executives from 130 corporations describe how their companies "do good" well.

  7. Communicating For Global Competitive Advantage

    August 1997 | Research Report

    Whether challenged by a corporate crisis, merger, or acquisition, these executives have gotten their messages out.

  8. Strategic Alliances: Institutionalizing Partnering Capabilities

    July 1997 | Research Report

    Why reinvent the wheel of alliances? Learn from executives who have developed a formula for repeatable success in partnerships.

  9. Communicating Corporate Performance: A Delicate Balance

    July 1997 | Research Report

    This executive summary looks at how global companies communicate their strategic performance measures to investors.

  10. Corporate Volunteerism: How Families Make a Difference

    July 1997 | Research Report

    Involving families in volunteer programs improves results and morale, but it takes leadership, communication, and planning.

  11. Environmental Policy-Making

    June 1997 | Research Report

    A more rational approach: What are the goals when corporations do risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis?

  12. CFO 2000: The CFO as Global Business Partner

    June 1997 | Research Report

    An examination of CFOs' constantly evolving relationships with shareholders, chief executives, senior managers, and financial staffs.

  13. Total Quality Journey

    June 1997 | Research Report

    This report is based on speeches presented at The Regional Malcolm Baldrige Award conferences held in Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, and San Francisco in May and June 1996.

  14. Case Studies in Strategic Performance Measurement

    February 1997 | Research Report

    How do you measure strategic performance effectively? Here are real-world answers from corporations that have done it.

  15. EH&S: A Platform for Progress

    January 1997 | Research Report

    Why leave your EHS function out in the cold? This report focuses on how to integrate it at the business-unit and corporate level.

  16. Measuring Corporate Community Involvement: A Research Report

    January 1997 | Research Report

    A study of how companies measure and benchmark their contributions and community relations programs.

1996

  1. Benchmarking Corporate International Contributions

    September 1996 | Research Report

    What works in global contributions programs, and what doesn't.

  2. Organizing for Global Competitiveness

    August 1996 | Research Report

    This overview summarizes four of the most popular reports in The Conference Board's series on global organization design.

  3. Corporate Board: A Growing Role in Strategic Assessment

    August 1996 | Research Report

    This 10-country study of the board's role in strategy deliberations documents external forces that contribute to the board's growing involvement in strategic issues.

  4. Corporate Practices in Management Development

    August 1996 | Research Report

    Case studies and a survey examine the best practices of top management development executives.

  5. European Regional Design

    July 1996 | Research Report

    Part of the Organizing for Global Competitiveness series, this report looks at the MNC designs for corporations in the European region.

  6. Shaping a Superior Corporate Image

    July 1996 | Research Report

    These excerpts from discussions with CEOs and other pros show you how to grow a strong brand image and steer through a crisis.

  7. Strategic Purchasing: Sourcing for the Bottom Line

    July 1996 | Research Report

    Here are the tools to improve your supplier management and, of course, your bottom line.

  8. Corporate EH&S Reward Programs

    June 1996 | Research Report

    Employee-recognition programs can boost your company's performance in EHS. This report shows how such programs can aid your strategic planning.

  9. Strategic Opportunities in Community Activity

    April 1996 | Research Report

    Tie philanthropy to your corporate goals with the strategies presented in this report.

  10. Executive Annual Incentive Plans

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