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

The 2009 Institutional Investment 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.

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Accounting

Oct. 2005	Expanding the Investment Frontier: Factoring Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria into Investment Analysis Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria are becoming more recognized as an essential tool in investment analysis.
June 2005	Beyond Costs: Financial and Operational Risks 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.
May 2004	Do Exchange Rates Matter? This survey based report provides deep insights into whether—and how— exchange rate volatility shapes business investment decisions and risk management practices.
Feb. 1999	The Link Between Corporate Citizenship and Financial Performance Does playing the good corporate citizen help your organization? This report finds: Sometimes.
June 1997	CFO 2000: The CFO as Global Business Partner An examination of CFOs' constantly evolving relationships with shareholders, chief executives, senior managers, and financial staffs.

CEOs/C-Suite

Sept. 2009	The Conference Board Task Force on Executive Compensation 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.
June 2009	Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite This report distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.
Dec. 2008	Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices in 2008 This annual report analyzes board structure and director compensation information regarding U.S-based public companies.
Nov. 2008	CEO Challenge 2008: Top 10 Challenges – Financial Crisis Edition 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.
June 2008	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2007 This annual report reflects the changes in director compensation reporting required by the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules of 2006.
Apr. 2008	CEO Challenge: Perspectives and Analysis — 2007 Edition 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.
Dec. 2007	Mid-Market CEO Challenge: 2007 Edition This survey based report provides an overview of the challenges currently faced by CEOs in the mid-market sector.
Oct. 2007	The Changing Role of the COO Is the Chief Operating Officer Headed for Transformation or Extinction? 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.
Oct. 2007	CEO Challenge 2007 Top 10 Challenges This survey based report finds execution is taking precedence over profit and top-line growth as a focus for CEOs around the world.
July 2007	Corporate Governance Handbook 2007: Legal Standards and Board Practices 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.
Feb. 2007	Emerging Governance Practices In Enterprise Risk Management This report examines how ERM departs from the fragmented and compartmentalized risk management solutions already in place at many organizations.
Oct. 2006	The 2006 Top Executive Compensation 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.
Oct. 2006	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2006 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.
Oct. 2006	Are They Really Ready to Work? This report defines workforce readiness by examining survey results and interviews with Human Resource and other senior executives.
June 2006	The Role of U.S. Corporate Boards in Enterprise Risk Management 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.
June 2006	CEO Challenge 2006: Perspectives & Analysis Summary and analysis of findings from this year's CEO Challenge Survey.
May 2006	Mid-Market CEO Challenge 2006 This survey based report highlights the most important issues confronting over 250 CEOs of U.S. mid-market companies.
Nov. 2005	The 2005 Top Executive Compensation Report An analysis of the compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 3,143 publicly traded firms in 2005
Nov. 2005	CEO Challenge 2006: Top 10 Challenges 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".
July 2005	Corporate Governance Handbook 2005: Developments in Best Practices, Compliance, and Legal Standards 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.
June 2005	Enterprise Risk Management Systems: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard 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.
Mar. 2005	Mid-Market CEO Challenge This report, based on the 2004 CEO Challenge Survey, highlights the most important issues confronting mid-market CEOs.
Nov. 2004	CEO Challenge 2004: Perspectives and Analysis 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.
Oct. 2004	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2004 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.
Oct. 2004	The 2004 Top Executive Compensation Report This annual report provides an overview of the practices of 2,896 publicly traded companies in 14 major industry categories.
Aug. 2004	CEO Challenge 2004: Top Ten Challenges (Executive Summary) 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".
July 2004	Keeping the Talent Pipeline Filled in the Energy and Utility Industries 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.
May 2004	Do Exchange Rates Matter? This survey based report provides deep insights into whether—and how— exchange rate volatility shapes business investment decisions and risk management practices.
Feb. 2004	Ethics Programs ... The Role of the Board: A Global Study This report addresses the proper role for company boards in the design, implementation, and monitoring for effectiveness of company ethics programs.
Nov. 2003	Top Executive Compensation in 2002 This annual report details the average 2002 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,877 companies in 14 major industry sectors.
Nov. 2003	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2003 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.
Oct. 2003	The CEO Challenge 2003: Top Marketplace and Management Issues 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.
July 2003	Outsourcing Trends This study examines the success factors and "next practices" in IT and business process outsourcing.
Jan. 2003	Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise 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.
Jan. 2003	Hong Kong Corporates and Investor Confidence 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.
Jan. 2003	Singapore Corporates and Investor Confidence 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.
Nov. 2002	Top Executive Compensation in 2001 This annual report details the average 2001 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,841 companies in 14 major industry sectors.
Oct. 2002	The CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues-2002 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.
Sept. 2002	HR Outsourcing Trends This study examines the benefits, challenges, and alternatives to HR outsourcing.
July 2002	Corporate Citizenship in the New Century: Accountability, Transparency, and Global Stakeholder Engagement 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.
Oct. 2001	The Compensation Committee Of The Board: Best Practices For Establishing Executive Compensation This study examines best practice processes used by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors in designing executive compensation programs.
Mar. 2001	Managing Growth: Smart Strategies for Smaller and Mid-Sized Companies 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.
Jan. 2001	Corporate Governance:Global Trends Examined From an Asian Perspective 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.
Jan. 2001	The CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues 2001 506 CEOs of U.S., European, and Asian companies select the top three "marketplace" and "management" challenges they face in 2001.
Mar. 2000	The Office of the Chief Executive: Current Patterns and Challenges This study explores the current state of the executive office.
Nov. 1999	Determining Board Effectiveness 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.
June 1999	The CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues What are the top bosses thinking? Find out in this survey, where more than 650 CEOs say what's on their minds.
June 1999	Globalizing the Board of Directors: Trends and Strategies Are you trying to take your organization's board global? You should. Here's a look at the ways to go about it.
Feb. 1999	Concepts for the New Leadership 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.
Jan. 1999	Board Diversity in U.S. Corporations: Best Practices for Broadening the Profile of Corporate Boards 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.
Apr. 1998	Bridging the Leadership Gap Does your company develop leaders properly? Here's a look at what members of the Fortune 1000 do.
Jan. 1998	Global Growth Strategies 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.
June 1997	CFO 2000: The CFO as Global Business Partner An examination of CFOs' constantly evolving relationships with shareholders, chief executives, senior managers, and financial staffs.
Aug. 1996	The Corporate Board: A Growing Role in Strategic Assessment 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.
Aug. 1996	Corporate Practices in Management Development Case studies and a survey examine the best practices of top management development executives.
July 1996	Shaping a Superior Corporate Image These excerpts from discussions with CEOs and other pros show you how to grow a strong brand image and steer through a crisis.

China

Dec. 2007	Can China's Growth Trajectory Be Sustained? 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.
Dec. 2007	China’s Productivity Boom: The Contribution of Restructuring to Growth and Competitiveness While Chinese firms still operate at productivity levels well below their foreign counterparts, this report shows that they are making startling progress.
Mar. 2006	Leadership Development in Asia-Pacific: Identifying and Developing Leaders for Growth 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.
June 2004	China’s Experience with Productivity and Jobs 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.

Citizenship & Sustainability

June 2009	Frameworks for Integrating Citizenship and Sustainability into Business Strategies and Operations This report explores the approaches of 11 North American companies with well-established citizenship and sustainability practices.
Dec. 2008	The 2008 Corporate Contributions 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.
May 2008	Corporate Responses to Humanitarian Disasters: The Mutual Benefits of Private-Humanitarian Cooperation This report provides a detailed overview of the new model of corporate-humanitarian cooperation.
Jan. 2008	The 2007 Corporate Contributions Report This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.
Nov. 2007	Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? 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.
Oct. 2007	Workforce Readiness Initiative 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.
May 2007	Managing for a Carbon-Concerned Future A Decision-Making Framework 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.
Jan. 2007	The 2006 Corporate Contributions Report This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.
Nov. 2006	The Role of Business in Society An Agenda for Action 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.
Oct. 2006	Are They Really Ready to Work? This report defines workforce readiness by examining survey results and interviews with Human Resource and other senior executives.
May 2006	Philanthropy and Business: The Changing Agenda 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.
Dec. 2005	The 2005 Corporate Contributions Report An analysis of the giving patterns of 189 major corporations in 2004.
Oct. 2005	Expanding the Investment Frontier: Factoring Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria into Investment Analysis Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria are becoming more recognized as an essential tool in investment analysis.
Aug. 2005	The Measure of Success: Evaluating Corporate Citizenship Performance This report presents a discussion of the evolution of corporate citizenship and how the political debates surrounding the topic have influenced measurement practice.
June 2005	Corporate Citizenship Reporting: Best Practices This report presents case studies of five companies that exemplify best practices in the public reporting to stakeholders of citizenship performance.
Oct. 2004	The 2004 Corporate Contributions Report This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.
Mar. 2004	Strategic Energy Management - The State of the Debate This report is based on a survey of senior executives to determine how businesses currently view and manage energy.
Dec. 2003	Corporate Contributions in 2002 This report is an annual overview of corporate giving based on information supplied by the largest U.S. corporations.
Nov. 2003	Compassionate Downsizing: Making the Business Case for Education and Training Services 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.
Mar. 2003	New Career Paths for Science-Trained Professionals: A Progress Report on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Professional Science Master’s Degree Program 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.
Jan. 2003	Corporate Contributions in 2001 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.
July 2002	Corporate Citizenship in the New Century: Accountability, Transparency, and Global Stakeholder Engagement 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.
Jan. 2002	Corporate Community Development: Meeting the Measurement Challenge 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).
Jan. 2002	The Road to Sustainability: Business’ First Steps 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.
Oct. 2001	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Conservation of Forests, Farmlands, and Wetlands This report outlines the current status of agreements between government, business, and non-governmental organizations for the preservation of open spaces.
June 2001	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Promoting the Hiring of Workers with Disabilities This publication documents corporate participation in many federal, state, and local programs designed to promote meaningful employment for persons with disabilities.
Nov. 2000	Doing Good and Doing Well:Making the Business Case for Corporate Citizenship This report draws on the themes of the 2000 Leadership Conference on Global Corporate Citizenship.
Sept. 2000	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Welfare-to-Work Initiatives 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.
June 2000	The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Corporate Citizenship 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.
Nov. 1999	Community Connections: Strategic Partnerships in the Digital Industries This report presents the business case for digital industry companies to partner with nonprofits and governments in strategic community investment activities.
Oct. 1999	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Public Safety Initiatives The report profiles four case studies of the partnering of law enforcement agencies and community activists.
Sept. 1999	Consumer Expectations on the Social Accountability of Business 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.
Sept. 1999	The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership 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.
July 1999	Turning Skills Into Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace Education Programs Employers report that at least one employee skill and one economic benefit is gained from the workplace education program.
June 1999	Corporate Contributions: The View From Fifty Years This report examines the history of corporate contributions.
June 1999	The Expanding Parameters of Global Corporate Citizenship 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
May 1999	Global Corporate Ethics Practices: A Developing Consensus 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.
Feb. 1999	The Link Between Corporate Citizenship and Financial Performance Does playing the good corporate citizen help your organization? This report finds: Sometimes.
Nov. 1998	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Educational Initiatives The early results from these partnerships are far from definitive, but they sure look promising.
Oct. 1998	Using Technology to Strengthen Employee & Family Involvement in Education Today's students are tomorrow's workforce and consumers. What can corporations do to help their education be productive? Here's some practical experience.
July 1998	Building the Corporate Community Economic Development Team There are benefits to be harvested by investing in community development, as this study of the experience of 119 companies shows.
Jan. 1998	A Business Guide to Support Employee and Family Involvement in Education Your employees care about their families' educations — so you need to care. This report covers the experiences of major corporations' education initiatives.
Aug. 1997	Corporate Response to HIV/AIDS The Conference Board joined with the United Nations to create this report on the epidemic striking people and businesses around the world.
Aug. 1997	The Corporate Contributions Plan: From Strategy to Budget Executives from 130 corporations describe how their companies "do good" well.
July 1997	Corporate Volunteerism: How Families Make a Difference Involving families in volunteer programs improves results and morale, but it takes leadership, communication, and planning.
Sept. 1996	Benchmarking Corporate International Contributions What works in global contributions programs, and what doesn't.
Apr. 1996	Strategic Opportunities in Community Activity Tie philanthropy to your corporate goals with the strategies presented in this report.
Jan. 1996	The Evolving Role of Ethics in Business Leading executives discuss how ethical business practices can have a positive impact on profits.

Compensation/Benefits

Dec. 2008	Top Executive Compensation in 2008 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.
Dec. 2008	Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices in 2008 This annual report analyzes board structure and director compensation information regarding U.S-based public companies.
June 2008	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2007 This annual report reflects the changes in director compensation reporting required by the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules of 2006.
Apr. 2008	HIV/AIDS in the Workplace This is a follow-up to The Conference Board's first report on the corporate response to HIV/AIDS published in 1997.
Apr. 2008	Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity This report shines a spotlight on obesity, and offers some solutions, and the potential rewards and risks of taking action.
Apr. 2008	The 2007 Top Executive Compensation 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.
Mar. 2007	Consumer-Driven Healthcare: Current Practices, Future Upgrades 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.
Oct. 2006	The 2006 Top Executive Compensation 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.
Oct. 2006	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2006 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.
Apr. 2006	Cutting Healthcare Costs: Options for Mid-Market Firms This report explores some new healthcare cost cutting options through the experiences of five mid-market companies.
Jan. 2006	The Evolving Relationship Between Compensation Committees and Consultants This report traces the development of “best practices” for compensation committees, particularly with respect to processes required to choose and employ outside consultants.
Nov. 2005	The 2005 Top Executive Compensation Report An analysis of the compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 3,143 publicly traded firms in 2005
Nov. 2005	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2005 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.
Sept. 2005	Executive Compensation Consulting: A Research Working Group Report on Best Practices 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.
Oct. 2004	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2004 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.
Oct. 2004	The 2004 Top Executive Compensation Report This annual report provides an overview of the practices of 2,896 publicly traded companies in 14 major industry categories.
Nov. 2003	Top Executive Compensation in 2002 This annual report details the average 2002 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,877 companies in 14 major industry sectors.
Nov. 2003	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2003 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.
Jan. 2003	Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise 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.
Nov. 2002	Top Executive Compensation in 2001 This annual report details the average 2001 compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 2,841 companies in 14 major industry sectors.
Oct. 2001	The Compensation Committee Of The Board: Best Practices For Establishing Executive Compensation This study examines best practice processes used by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors in designing executive compensation programs.
Aug. 1999	Aligning Performance Measures and Incentives in European Companies This report provides survey data and case studies to demonstrate that European companies are increasingly aligning executive compensation incentives to performance measures.
July 1998	Returning to Consumer-Based Healthcare Is there a major organization that doesn't have healthcare concerns? Look to this report for a view of things to come.
Aug. 1997	Corporate Response to HIV/AIDS The Conference Board joined with the United Nations to create this report on the epidemic striking people and businesses around the world.
Apr. 1996	Executive Annual Incentive Plans Detailed analysis of incentive payments by industry sector and position.

Diversity and Inclusion

Nov. 2008	Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.
Aug. 2008	Leadership, Governance, and Accountability: A Pathway to a Diverse and Inclusive Organization This report has profiled organizations that have strategically aligned diversity and inclusion practices with general business goals.
July 2008	Bridging the Gaps: How to Transfer Knowledge in Today's Multigenerational Workplace 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.
May 2008	Creating a Competency Model for Diversity and Inclusion Practitioners This report sets out a new and unique competency model for 21st century D&I practioners.
July 2005	Managing the Mature Workforce 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.
Apr. 2003	Valuing Experience: How to Motivate and Retain Mature Workers 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.
Nov. 2002	Voices of Experience: Mature Workers in the Future Workforce Presents the results of the Board's Life Planning Survey, which explored the retirement intentions and perspectives of 1645 employees aged 50 and above.
Oct. 2001	The Diversity Executive: Tasks, Competencies, and Strategies for Effective Leadership 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.
Oct. 1999	Diversity: An Imperative for Business Success This conference report addresses the business rationale behind implementing diversity and tools for making inclusiveness a reality within companies.
Sept. 1997	Managing Diversity for Sustaining Competitiveness The diversity of your workforce can be a big advantage for you — if you know how to harness it. Here's how.

Economic Environment

Oct. 2009	The 2009 Institutional Investment 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.
Aug. 2009	U.S. Salary Increase Budgets for 2010 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.
Aug. 2009	Productivity, Performance, and Progress: Germany in International Comparative Perspective This study argues that the key to a successful and sustainable growth strategy for any time and place is to find the optimal balance between labour productivity growth and labour input growth.
May 2009	Innovation and US Competitiveness: Reevaluating the Contributors to Growth This report takes stock of the innovation capabilities of the U.S. economy, including hurdles to maintaining the nation's leadership position, and recommends some means and methods of overcoming those obstacles.
June 2008	Growing Beyond Oil: Productivity, Performance, and Progress in the Countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council 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).
Mar. 2008	Performance 2008: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies 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.
Dec. 2007	Can China's Growth Trajectory Be Sustained? 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.
Dec. 2007	China’s Productivity Boom: The Contribution of Restructuring to Growth and Competitiveness While Chinese firms still operate at productivity levels well below their foreign counterparts, this report shows that they are making startling progress.
Nov. 2007	A Marketer's Guide to Discretionary Income About 73 million households in the United States have some discretionary income at their disposal, up from nearly 57 million in 2002.
July 2007	The Global Luxury Market This report offers a cross-cultural perspective on consumers' attitudes toward luxury and explores how those attitudes influence consumers in different markets.
May 2005	Performance 2005: Productivity, Employment and Income in the World’s Economies 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.
Mar. 2005	The Retail Revolution - Can Europe Match U.S. Productivity Performance? This report dissects and identifies the root causes of the European Union-United States productivity growth gap in the retail and wholesale trade sectors.
Nov. 2004	The Hispanic Market in 2010 This report profiles these consumers and predicts how their demographics will change by 2010.
June 2004	China’s Experience with Productivity and Jobs 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.
May 2004	Performance 2004 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.
May 2004	Do Exchange Rates Matter? This survey based report provides deep insights into whether—and how— exchange rate volatility shapes business investment decisions and risk management practices.
Mar. 2003	Performance 2002: Productivity, Employment, and Income in the World’s Economies 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.
May 2002	North American Outlook 2002-2003 The Conference Board’s economic forecasts for Canada, the United States, and Mexico in 2002-2003.
Jan. 2002	Restructuring Chinese Enterprises: Effects of Federalism and Privatization Initiatives on Business 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.
Oct. 2001	Making the Most of the Information Age: Productivity and Structural Reform in the New Economy Using new, internationally comparative evidence, this study examines the patterns of information and communication technology diffusion across advanced industrial economies.
June 2001	Why All the Uncertainty, Fear and Doubt? Are Mergers and Acquisitions Bad for Workers? 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.
Mar. 2001	Performance 2000: Productivity, Employment, and Income in the World's Economies Examines accelerating U.S. productivity and the new challenges it provides to advanced economies.
Aug. 2000	E-Commerce Tax Policy and Planning: Domestic and International This report details the many issues with which a senior corporate executive involved in electronic business should be familiar
June 2000	Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats? America's full-time working poor reap limited gains in the new economy.
Jan. 2000	Are Poor Nations Closing the Gap in Living Standards?: Perspectives on a Global Economy 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.
Jan. 2000	Perspectives on a Global Economy A look at productivity and living standards around the world, and the impact they have on business.
Oct. 1999	Measuring Prices in a Dynamic Economy: Re-Examining the CPI 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.
Mar. 1999	Are Bigger Banks Better? 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.
Feb. 1999	The Euro-What Impact Will It Have on European Labor Markets: Perspectives on a Global Economy Work participation has fallen in Europe - will the Euro put more pressure on European workers? This study discusses the answer.
Feb. 1999	Understanding Productivity Growth: Entry, Survival, and the Competitive Process Do new plants outperform old plants? This study looks at a variety of factors to answer that question.
July 1998	Asia After the Crisis—Challenges for a Return to Rapid Growth: Perspectives on a Global Economy What will happen when the current crisis in Asia abates? Is the long-term outlook favorable? Find out in this report.
Apr. 1998	Computers, Productivity, and Growth: Explaining the Computer Productivity Paradox Studies say that computers don't add to productivity, but that's not what our researchers found. Read their findings in this report.
Dec. 1997	Technology, Productivity and Growth: U.S. and German Issues: Perspectives on a Global Economy Here's a hard look at "productivity" and the myth of the "computer productivity paradox."

Enterprise Risk Management

Mar. 2009	Managing Reputation Risk and Reward This report examines the challenges companies face as they work to safeguard and enhance their reputations among customers, investors, employees, and other stakeholders.
Apr. 2008	Assessing the Climate for Enterprise Risk Management in India 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.
Dec. 2007	Reputation Risk: A Corporate Governance Perspective 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.
Sept. 2007	Risky Business Is Enterprise Risk Management Losing Ground? 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?
Feb. 2007	Emerging Governance Practices In Enterprise Risk Management This report examines how ERM departs from the fragmented and compartmentalized risk management solutions already in place at many organizations.
Oct. 2006	Navigating Risk — The Business Case for Security This report details survey results, regarding managing and mitigating risk, of 213 senior corporate executives working for a broad range of companies.
June 2006	The Role of U.S. Corporate Boards in Enterprise Risk Management 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.
Oct. 2005	From Risk Management To Risk Strategy: Mid-Markets This survey based report presents the facts and figures on Mid Market companies increasing utilization of Risk Management Strategies.
June 2005	From Risk Management To Risk Strategy This survey based report presents the findings of 271 executives questioned on their current ERM practices.
June 2005	Beyond Costs: Financial and Operational Risks 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.
June 2005	Enterprise Risk Management Systems: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard 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.
May 2002	Value at Work: The Risks and Opportunities of Human Capital Measurement and Reporting 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.

Ethics and Compliance

Oct. 2009	Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance - The Need for Collaboration 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.
Feb. 2008	Finding the Right Balance: The Risks and Rewards of Third Party Ethics Programs This survey based report provides findings on company practices regarding compliance and ethics requirements and standards to third parties.
July 2007	Corporate Governance Handbook 2007: Legal Standards and Board Practices 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.
Nov. 2006	Resisting Corruption How Company Programs Are Changing This survey based report offers solutions for developing effective anti-corruption systems.
Sept. 2006	Universal Conduct: An Ethics and Compliance Benchmarking Survey This study documents the efforts of 225 companies to design, implement and monitor their compliance and risk assessment programs for effectiveness.
Jan. 2006	The Evolving Relationship Between Compensation Committees and Consultants This report traces the development of “best practices” for compensation committees, particularly with respect to processes required to choose and employ outside consultants.
July 2005	Corporate Governance Handbook 2005: Developments in Best Practices, Compliance, and Legal Standards 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.
Feb. 2004	Ethics Programs ... The Role of the Board: A Global Study This report addresses the proper role for company boards in the design, implementation, and monitoring for effectiveness of company ethics programs.
May 2003	Corporate Governance Best Practices: A Blueprint for the Post-Enron Era This blueprint best practices report is intended as a sourcebook of leading governance practices for board members and management.
Jan. 2003	Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise 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.
Oct. 2000	Company Programs for Resisting Corrupt Practices: A Global Study This report looks at policies, practices, and procedures that represent standards of best practice for company efforts to resist corrupt practices.
May 2000	Debating European Corporate Governance Issues 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.
May 1999	Global Corporate Ethics Practices: A Developing Consensus 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.
Jan. 1996	The Evolving Role of Ethics in Business Leading executives discuss how ethical business practices can have a positive impact on profits.

Governance

Sept. 2009	The Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Leading the Public Company to Full Recovery The Role of the Board in Turbulent Times offers corporate directors guidance on how to approach their oversight responsibilities during a period of financial distress.
Sept. 2009	Corporate Governance Handbook: Legal Standards and Board Practices (Third Edition) Revised in 2009, this handbook presents an easy-to-use compendium of rapidly evolving laws and regulations and the best practices adopted by leading companies.
Sept. 2009	The Conference Board Task Force on Executive Compensation 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.
Dec. 2008	Directors’ Compensation and Board Practices in 2008 This annual report analyzes board structure and director compensation information regarding U.S-based public companies.
Sept. 2008	Hedge Fund Activism: Findings and Recommendations for Corporations and Investors This report contains findings and recommendations of the Research Working Group on Hedge Fund Activism instituted by The Conference Board in May 2007.
Sept. 2008	The 2008 Institutional Investment 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.
June 2008	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2007 This annual report reflects the changes in director compensation reporting required by the new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) rules of 2006.
Dec. 2007	Reputation Risk: A Corporate Governance Perspective 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.
July 2007	Corporate Governance Handbook 2007: Legal Standards and Board Practices 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.
Feb. 2007	Emerging Governance Practices In Enterprise Risk Management This report examines how ERM departs from the fragmented and compartmentalized risk management solutions already in place at many organizations.
Feb. 2007	The 2007 Institutional Investment Report This report is widely regarded as the most definitive source of information on U.S. institutional investor ownership and control.
Nov. 2006	Resisting Corruption How Company Programs Are Changing This survey based report offers solutions for developing effective anti-corruption systems.
Oct. 2006	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2006 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.
Sept. 2006	Universal Conduct: An Ethics and Compliance Benchmarking Survey This study documents the efforts of 225 companies to design, implement and monitor their compliance and risk assessment programs for effectiveness.
June 2006	The Role of U.S. Corporate Boards in Enterprise Risk Management 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.
Apr. 2006	Revisiting Stock Market Short-Termism This report represents a unique consensus achieved at the Corporate/Investor Summit on stock market short-termism.
Jan. 2006	The Evolving Relationship Between Compensation Committees and Consultants This report traces the development of “best practices” for compensation committees, particularly with respect to processes required to choose and employ outside consultants.
Nov. 2005	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2005 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.
Sept. 2005	The 2005 Institutional Investment Report: U.S. and International Trends This report covers the most relevant aspects of domestic and international institutional investment trends.
Aug. 2005	Corporate Governance Best Practices in Europe 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.
July 2005	Corporate Governance Handbook 2005: Developments in Best Practices, Compliance, and Legal Standards 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.
June 2005	Enterprise Risk Management Systems: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard 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.
Dec. 2004	The Future of the Annual General Meeting 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.
Nov. 2004	Improving Communications Between Companies and Investors 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.
Oct. 2004	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2004 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.
Feb. 2004	Ethics Programs ... The Role of the Board: A Global Study This report addresses the proper role for company boards in the design, implementation, and monitoring for effectiveness of company ethics programs.
Nov. 2003	Directors' Compensation and Board Practices in 2003 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.
May 2003	Corporate Governance Best Practices: A Blueprint for the Post-Enron Era This blueprint best practices report is intended as a sourcebook of leading governance practices for board members and management.
Mar. 2003	Reaching Out: Devising Individual Shareholder Programs This report investigates how individual shareholders contribute to the development of a corporation, and how corporations can best attract and retain their retail shareholders.
Feb. 2003	Institutional Investment Report - March 2003 Financial assets and equity holdings—patterns of institutional investment and control.
Jan. 2003	Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise 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.
Jan. 2003	Hong Kong Corporates and Investor Confidence 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.
Jan. 2003	Singapore Corporates and Investor Confidence 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.
Jan. 2003	India Corporates and Investor Confidence 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.
May 2002	Institutional Investment Report - May 2002 Equity ownership and investment strategies of U.S. and international institutional investors.
Oct. 2001	The Compensation Committee Of The Board: Best Practices For Establishing Executive Compensation This study examines best practice processes used by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors in designing executive compensation programs.
Aug. 2001	The Global Investor and Corporate Governance: What do Institutional Investors Want? This report looks at the major corporate governance issues of interest to, and intervention strategies used by, institutional investors around the world today.
Jan. 2001	Corporate Governance:Global Trends Examined From an Asian Perspective 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.
Aug. 2000	The Link Between Corporate Governance and Performance: Year 2000 Update This report updates an earlier (1998) survey on published evidence on the link between corporate governance and corporate performance.
June 2000	Corporate Governance and Cross-Border Mergers This report discusses the role of corporate governance before, during, and after a cross-border merger.
May 2000	Debating European Corporate Governance Issues 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.
Nov. 1999	Determining Board Effectiveness 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.
June 1999	Globalizing the Board of Directors: Trends and Strategies Are you trying to take your organization's board global? You should. Here's a look at the ways to go about it.
Jan. 1999	Board Diversity in U.S. Corporations: Best Practices for Broadening the Profile of Corporate Boards 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.
May 1998	The Link Between Corporate Governance & Performance Does the way a company is governed affect its performance? Find out in this report.
July 1997	Communicating Corporate Performance: A Delicate Balance This executive summary looks at how global companies communicate their strategic performance measures to investors.
June 1997	Communicating Corporate Performance Should strategic performance information be disclosed to investors? Corporate executives and investment experts weigh in on the subject.
Feb. 1997	Case Studies in Strategic Performance Measurement How do you measure strategic performance effectively? Here are real-world answers from corporations that have done it.
Aug. 1996	The Corporate Board: A Growing Role in Strategic Assessment 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.
Apr. 1996	Executive Annual Incentive Plans Detailed analysis of incentive payments by industry sector and position.

HR and Talent Management

Oct. 2009	Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance - The Need for Collaboration 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.
Sept. 2009	Building Risk Awareness into Performance: Integrating ERM and Performance Management This report explores the reasons behind the lack of ERM and performance management integration through an examination of the results of a survey of 97 senior executives.
Aug. 2009	The Ill-Prepared U.S. Workforce This report raises several questions concerning the overall effectiveness of workforce readiness training programs.
Aug. 2009	A Perfect Match? How Nonprofits Are Tapping into the Boomer Talent Pool This report explores the growing trend of nonprofits to recruit boomers and the things both sides need to do to make this very promising relationship work.
June 2009	Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning This report highlights the implementation process for Strategic Workforce Planning---from simply connecting business strategy and HR strategy to becoming an input to business strategy that informs executive decision making.
June 2009	Offshoring Reaches the C-Suite This report distills findings and interpretations from the 2007/2008 Offshoring Research Network (ORN) survey.
June 2009	Evidence-Based Human Resources: A Practitioner's Guide This guide to Evidence-Based Human Resources provides practitioners with real live examples from early adopters of this innovative approach to human capital management.
Nov. 2008	Meeting the Challenges of a Dispersed Workforce: Managing Across Language, Culture, Time and Location This Working Group Report discusses issues like payoff from effective distance management, and selecting and developing employees for distance work.
Oct. 2008	Ready to Innovate 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.
Aug. 2008	Leadership, Governance, and Accountability: A Pathway to a Diverse and Inclusive Organization This report has profiled organizations that have strategically aligned diversity and inclusion practices with general business goals.
Aug. 2008	The 2008 Executive Coaching Fee Survey This report offers an analysis of the rates organizations pay for executive coaching services.
July 2008	Evidence-Based HR in Action This report provides in-depth case studies from four organizations that employ evidence-based approaches to their human capital management.
July 2008	Bridging the Gaps: How to Transfer Knowledge in Today's Multigenerational Workplace 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.
June 2008	Strategic Human Capital Measures: Orientation, Accountability, and Communication This report illustrates how companies are employing human capital metrics and the potential impact of these new measurements.
Apr. 2008	Weights & Measures: What Employers Should Know about Obesity This report shines a spotlight on obesity, and offers some solutions, and the potential rewards and risks of taking action.
Feb. 2008	New Graduates' Workforce Readiness: The Mid-Market Perspective This report presents a mid-market perspective on the workforce readiness of newly hired high school and college graduates.
Dec. 2007	Mid-Market CEO Challenge: 2007 Edition This survey based report provides an overview of the challenges currently faced by CEOs in the mid-market sector.
Dec. 2007	Evidence-Based Human Resources: A Primer and Summary of Current Literature This literature review documents the evolution of the field of human resources and advances in techniques and technologies for measuring human capital dynamics.
Dec. 2007	Gray Skies, Silver Linings How Companies Are Forecasting, Managing, and Recruiting a Mature Workforce Executives in need of frank, bottom-line answers to the questions raised by boomer retirements will find them in this report.
Oct. 2007	The Changing Role of the COO Is the Chief Operating Officer Headed for Transformation or Extinction? 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.
Oct. 2007	CEO Challenge 2007 Top 10 Challenges This survey based report finds execution is taking precedence over profit and top-line growth as a focus for CEOs around the world.
Oct. 2007	Workforce Readiness Initiative 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.
June 2007	Boomers Are Ready for Nonprofits But Are Nonprofits Ready for Them? 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.
May 2007	Strategic M&A: Creating Tools and Capabilities for Successful Integration This survey based report examines the procedures companies are currently using to pursue their M&A activities.
Mar. 2007	Phased Retirement after the Pension Protection Act In this report, two case studies provide examples of phased retirement programs in action.
Nov. 2006	Employee Engagement A Review of Current Research and Its Implications 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.
Oct. 2006	The 2006 Top Executive Compensation 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.
Oct. 2006	Are They Really Ready to Work? This report defines workforce readiness by examining survey results and interviews with Human Resource and other senior executives.
Aug. 2006	Strategic Workforce Planning Forecasting Human Capital Needs to Execute Business Strategy 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.
June 2006	Maximizing Rotational Assignments: A Handbook for Human Resources Executives This handbook explores the dynamics at play in identifying and executing business unit, geographic, and staff-line rotations.
June 2006	CEO Challenge 2006: Perspectives & Analysis Summary and analysis of findings from this year's CEO Challenge Survey.
Mar. 2006	Leadership Development in Asia-Pacific: Identifying and Developing Leaders for Growth 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.
Nov. 2005	Aligning the Organization: Management and Human Resource Concerns This document shows the benefits of using overseas labor and shows the obstacles that must be overcome for a successful transition.
Nov. 2005	The 2005 Top Executive Compensation Report An analysis of the compensation of the five highest-paid executives in 3,143 publicly traded firms in 2005
Nov. 2005	Developing Global Leaders This document strives to identify leaders from the talent pool available to executives and best utilize human resources in an international context.
Aug. 2005	Effecting Change in Business Enterprises 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.
July 2005	Managing the Mature Workforce 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.
May 2005	Performance 2005: Productivity, Employment and Income in the World’s Economies 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.
Apr. 2005	The Business Value of Leadership Development Through analysis and executive interviews with domestic and global companies, this report sheds light on key development issues facing leadership executives.
Apr. 2005	Talent Management Value Imperatives: Strategies for Execution This interview based report takes a look at the three P’s (Prerequisites, Processes and Performance) of talent management.
Jan. 2005	Measuring More Than Efficiency 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.
Nov. 2004	CEO Challenge 2004: Perspectives and Analysis 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.
Oct. 2004	The 2004 Top Executive Compensation Report This annual report provides an overview of the practices of 2,896 publicly traded companies in 14 major industry categories.
Aug. 2004	HR Outsourcing in Government Organizations This interview based report examines outsourcing of HR for government organizations, as the movement takes hold in government agencies.
July 2004	Keeping the Talent Pipeline Filled in the Energy and Utility Industries 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.
June 2004	Outsourcing HR in the Power Utilities and Energy Industry 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.
May 2004	Establishing Value For HR Technology This report examines the impact of HR technology initiatives on overall corporate business strategies and explores how these innovations are helping companies create value.
Apr. 2004	HR Outsourcing: Benefits, Challenges, and Trends 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.
Jan. 2004	Integrated and Integrative Talent Management: A Strategic HR Framework This report looks at a range of talent management initiatives from the perspective of their integration.
Dec. 2003	Linking People Measures to Strategy This report, based on a survey of 110 participants, explores how organizations are applying human capital measures in their individual businesses.
Nov. 2003	Compassionate Downsizing: Making the Business Case for Education and Training Services 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.
June 2003	Human Resources at Corporate Headquarters: A Management Update This study of how companies currently organize the human resources function at their corporate headquarters highlights key roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
May 2003	Regional Headquarters: Roles and Organization 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.
Sept. 2002	HR Outsourcing Trends This study examines the benefits, challenges, and alternatives to HR outsourcing.
Sept. 2002	HR Technology Strategies: What is Driving Them Today? This study considers the HR technology plans and strategies of some major organizations.
Aug. 2002	Sustaining the Talent Quest: Getting and Keeping the Best People in Volatile Times 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.
May 2002	Value at Work: The Risks and Opportunities of Human Capital Measurement and Reporting 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.
Apr. 2002	Developing Business Leaders for 2010 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.
Nov. 2001	Managing Culture in Mergers and Acquisitions 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.
Oct. 2001	The Diversity Executive: Tasks, Competencies, and Strategies for Effective Leadership 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.
July 2001	Executive Insights: Merging and Acquiring for Growth This report examines data on successful mergers that have fueled top-line growth.
June 2001	Why All the Uncertainty, Fear and Doubt? Are Mergers and Acquisitions Bad for Workers? 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.
June 2001	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Promoting the Hiring of Workers with Disabilities This publication documents corporate participation in many federal, state, and local programs designed to promote meaningful employment for persons with disabilities.
May 2001	Organizing for Global Competitiveness The Role of Corporate Headquarters and Its Leadership in Organizational Integration.
Apr. 2001	Engaging Employees Through Your Brand This report compares corporate and employer branding methods and provides benchmarks for successful implementation of programs to engage your employees through your brand.
Feb. 2001	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: The United States Army and the Private Sector An overview of the "Investment in America Forum," held in June 2000 in Washington.
Dec. 2000	Knowledge Management: Becoming an E-Learning Organization This report focuses on the role of knowledge management and organizational learning within the New Economy.
Sept. 2000	Post-Merger Integration: A Human Resources Perspective 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.
Sept. 2000	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Welfare-to-Work Initiatives 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.
Aug. 2000	The Link Between Corporate Governance and Performance: Year 2000 Update This report updates an earlier (1998) survey on published evidence on the link between corporate governance and corporate performance.
July 2000	Performance Measurement During Merger and Acquisition Integration This study demonstrates the contribution of performance measurement to the success of merger or acquisition integration.
June 2000	The Impact of Mergers and Acquisitions on Corporate Citizenship 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.
June 2000	Employee Communication During Mergers 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.
June 2000	Corporate Governance and Cross-Border Mergers This report discusses the role of corporate governance before, during, and after a cross-border merger.
May 2000	Corporate Environmental Governance: Benchmarks Toward a World-Class System This study probes the planning, development, and implementation processes of environmental management systems within 45 leading organizations.
Mar. 2000	Valuing People in the Change Process This report addresses the ways in which change affects organizations, focusing on the value of employees in the change process.
Jan. 2000	Implementing a Post-Merger Integration 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.
Nov. 1999	Determining Board Effectiveness 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.
Oct. 1999	Diversity: An Imperative for Business Success This conference report addresses the business rationale behind implementing diversity and tools for making inclusiveness a reality within companies.
Oct. 1999	Aligning Strategic Performance Measures and Results This research report offers key findings that demonstrate the capability of strategic performance measurement systems to improve business results.
Sept. 1999	The Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership 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.
Aug. 1999	Aligning Performance Measures and Incentives in European Companies This report provides survey data and case studies to demonstrate that European companies are increasingly aligning executive compensation incentives to performance measures.
July 1999	Turning Skills Into Profit: Economic Benefits of Workplace Education Programs Employers report that at least one employee skill and one economic benefit is gained from the workplace education program.
June 1999	Work-Life Initiatives in a Global Context 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.
June 1999	Post-Merger Organization Handbook Your company's just been merged. Now how do you blend your staffs, operations and resources to make it work? The answers are here.
June 1999	The Future Organization: New Leadership and Employee Roles As traditional command-and-control management structures crumble in the dawning information era, companies are scrambling to build new organizational models
Mar. 1999	Organizing for Global Competitiveness: The Corporate Headquarters Design How should you organize corporate headquarters to compete successfully around the world? This survey shows how 89 organizations do it.
July 1998	Returning to Consumer-Based Healthcare Is there a major organization that doesn't have healthcare concerns? Look to this report for a view of things to come.
July 1998	Understanding the People Factors in the Quest for Competitiveness Ultimately, corporate success comes down to your people. Here's a look at creating the right attributes in management and staff.
May 1998	The Link Between Corporate Governance & Performance Does the way a company is governed affect its performance? Find out in this report.
Apr. 1998	Bridging the Leadership Gap Does your company develop leaders properly? Here's a look at what members of the Fortune 1000 do.
Feb. 1998	Transforming the HR Function for Global Business Success HR executives are ramping up to work with line managers on global business issues. Here's a look at what's happening.
Oct. 1997	The Value of Training in the Era of Intellectual Capital 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.
Sept. 1997	Managing Diversity for Sustaining Competitiveness The diversity of your workforce can be a big advantage for you — if you know how to harness it. Here's how.
Aug. 1997	Corporate Response to HIV/AIDS The Conference Board joined with the United Nations to create this report on the epidemic striking people and businesses around the world.
July 1997	Communicating Corporate Performance: A Delicate Balance This executive summary looks at how global companies communicate their strategic performance measures to investors.
June 1997	Communicating Corporate Performance Should strategic performance information be disclosed to investors? Corporate executives and investment experts weigh in on the subject.
Feb. 1997	Case Studies in Strategic Performance Measurement How do you measure strategic performance effectively? Here are real-world answers from corporations that have done it.
Aug. 1996	Organizing for Global Competitiveness This overview summarizes four of the most popular reports in The Conference Board's series on global organization design.
Aug. 1996	Corporate Practices in Management Development Case studies and a survey examine the best practices of top management development executives.
Apr. 1996	Executive Annual Incentive Plans Detailed analysis of incentive payments by industry sector and position.

Leadership Development

Aug. 2008	Leadership, Governance, and Accountability: A Pathway to a Diverse and Inclusive Organization This report has profiled organizations that have strategically aligned diversity and inclusion practices with general business goals.
Dec. 2007	Mid-Market CEO Challenge: 2007 Edition This survey based report provides an overview of the challenges currently faced by CEOs in the mid-market sector.
Oct. 2007	The Changing Role of the COO Is the Chief Operating Officer Headed for Transformation or Extinction? 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.
Oct. 2007	CEO Challenge 2007 Top 10 Challenges This survey based report finds execution is taking precedence over profit and top-line growth as a focus for CEOs around the world.
June 2006	CEO Challenge 2006: Perspectives & Analysis Summary and analysis of findings from this year's CEO Challenge Survey.
Mar. 2006	Leadership Development in Asia-Pacific: Identifying and Developing Leaders for Growth 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.
Nov. 2005	Developing Global Leaders This document strives to identify leaders from the talent pool available to executives and best utilize human resources in an international context.
Apr. 2005	The Business Value of Leadership Development Through analysis and executive interviews with domestic and global companies, this report sheds light on key development issues facing leadership executives.
Nov. 2004	CEO Challenge 2004: Perspectives and Analysis 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.
Apr. 2002	Developing Business Leaders for 2010 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.
June 1999	The Future Organization: New Leadership and Employee Roles As traditional command-and-control management structures crumble in the dawning information era, companies are scrambling to build new organizational models

Legal-Other

July 2005

Corporate Governance Handbook 2005: Developments in Best Practices, Compliance, and Legal Standards
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.

Marketing and Communications

Oct. 2008	Managing and Measuring Return on Marketing Investment This report documents the research findings of The Conference Board's Working Group on Managing and Measuring Return on Marketing Investment (MROI).
Nov. 2007	A Marketer's Guide to Discretionary Income About 73 million households in the United States have some discretionary income at their disposal, up from nearly 57 million in 2002.
July 2007	The Global Luxury Market This report offers a cross-cultural perspective on consumers' attitudes toward luxury and explores how those attitudes influence consumers in different markets.
Dec. 2004	The Future of the Annual General Meeting 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.
Nov. 2004	Improving Communications Between Companies and Investors 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.
Nov. 2004	The Hispanic Market in 2010 This report profiles these consumers and predicts how their demographics will change by 2010.
Apr. 2004	Shared Services and CRM 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.
Dec. 2003	Managing Customer Data for Strategic Advantage This report presents the findings of a recent survey of 45 companies on the goals, effectiveness, and importance of their customer data management programs.
Sept. 2003	Sustaining Customer Care in a Rapidly Changing Business World: A Snapshot of Practices This study attempts to gauge the fast-changing technologies and approaches taken in maximizing customer and, hence, corporate value.
Dec. 2002	Beyond the Hype: E-nabling the Sales and Marketing Force 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.
Dec. 2001	Branding on Site: Customer Relationships in the Digital Marketplace 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.
Aug. 2001	Customer Relationship Management: New Ways of Keeping the Customer Satisfied 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.
Apr. 2001	Engaging Employees Through Your Brand This report compares corporate and employer branding methods and provides benchmarks for successful implementation of programs to engage your employees through your brand.
June 2000	Employee Communication During Mergers 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.
Sept. 1999	Consumer Expectations on the Social Accountability of Business 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.
June 1999	Communicating in the Future 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.
Mar. 1999	The Power of Marketing Innovation 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.
Feb. 1999	Forging an Effective Sales Organization 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.
May 1998	Managing the Corporate Brand Companies want more out of their brand—and this report looks at successful methods for getting it.
Apr. 1998	Managing Reputation with Image and Brands 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.
Oct. 1997	Investing in Profitable Customer Relationships 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.
Aug. 1997	Communicating For Global Competitive Advantage Whether challenged by a corporate crisis, merger, or acquisition, these executives have gotten their messages out.
July 1997	Communicating Corporate Performance: A Delicate Balance This executive summary looks at how global companies communicate their strategic performance measures to investors.
June 1997	Communicating Corporate Performance Should strategic performance information be disclosed to investors? Corporate executives and investment experts weigh in on the subject.
July 1996	Shaping a Superior Corporate Image These excerpts from discussions with CEOs and other pros show you how to grow a strong brand image and steer through a crisis.

Mid-Markets

Feb. 2008	New Graduates' Workforce Readiness: The Mid-Market Perspective This report presents a mid-market perspective on the workforce readiness of newly hired high school and college graduates.
Dec. 2007	Mid-Market CEO Challenge: 2007 Edition This survey based report provides an overview of the challenges currently faced by CEOs in the mid-market sector.
May 2006	Mid-Market CEO Challenge 2006 This survey based report highlights the most important issues confronting over 250 CEOs of U.S. mid-market companies.
Apr. 2006	Cutting Healthcare Costs: Options for Mid-Market Firms This report explores some new healthcare cost cutting options through the experiences of five mid-market companies.
Oct. 2005	From Risk Management To Risk Strategy: Mid-Markets This survey based report presents the facts and figures on Mid Market companies increasing utilization of Risk Management Strategies.
Mar. 2005	Mid-Market CEO Challenge This report, based on the 2004 CEO Challenge Survey, highlights the most important issues confronting mid-market CEOs.
Mar. 2001	Managing Growth: Smart Strategies for Smaller and Mid-Sized Companies 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.

Operations and Business Processes

May 2009	Innovation and US Competitiveness: Reevaluating the Contributors to Growth This report takes stock of the innovation capabilities of the U.S. economy, including hurdles to maintaining the nation's leadership position, and recommends some means and methods of overcoming those obstacles.
May 2009	A Leadership Prescription for the Future of Quality This report, created by The Conference Board Quality Council, looks at the future role of quality throughout the enterprise.
Jan. 2009	Assessing Offshoring Risks 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.
Dec. 2008	Preparedness in the Private Sector 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.
Oct. 2008	Ready to Innovate 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.
Nov. 2007	Reducing US Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How Much at What Cost? 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.
May 2007	Strategic M&A: Creating Tools and Capabilities for Successful Integration This survey based report examines the procedures companies are currently using to pursue their M&A activities.
May 2007	Managing for a Carbon-Concerned Future A Decision-Making Framework 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.
Oct. 2006	Navigating Risk — The Business Case for Security This report details survey results, regarding managing and mitigating risk, of 213 senior corporate executives working for a broad range of companies.
Aug. 2006	Strategic Workforce Planning Forecasting Human Capital Needs to Execute Business Strategy 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.
May 2006	Mid-Market CEO Challenge 2006 This survey based report highlights the most important issues confronting over 250 CEOs of U.S. mid-market companies.
Nov. 2005	Aligning the Organization: Management and Human Resource Concerns This document shows the benefits of using overseas labor and shows the obstacles that must be overcome for a successful transition.
Nov. 2005	CEO Challenge 2006: Top 10 Challenges 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".
Oct. 2005	Expanding the Investment Frontier: Factoring Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria into Investment Analysis Environmental, Social and Governance Criteria are becoming more recognized as an essential tool in investment analysis.
Aug. 2005	Effecting Change in Business Enterprises 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.
July 2005	The New Corporate Reality: External and Market Considerations 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.
July 2005	Roadmap for Strategic Energy Planning and Management This report is intended as a guide for companies interested in a systematic appraisal and decision-making process in regard to energy management.
June 2005	From Risk Management To Risk Strategy This survey based report presents the findings of 271 executives questioned on their current ERM practices.
June 2005	Beyond Costs: Financial and Operational Risks 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.
Mar. 2005	Corporate Security Measures and Practices This piece encapsulates information from a series of reports regarding security issues, which were originally published by The Conference Board in 2003 and 2004.
Nov. 2004	CEO Challenge 2004: Perspectives and Analysis 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.
Aug. 2004	CEO Challenge 2004: Top Ten Challenges (Executive Summary) 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".
Aug. 2004	HR Outsourcing in Government Organizations This interview based report examines outsourcing of HR for government organizations, as the movement takes hold in government agencies.
June 2004	Outsourcing HR in the Power Utilities and Energy Industry 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.
June 2004	China’s Experience with Productivity and Jobs 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.
Apr. 2004	Making Innovation Work: From Strategy to Practice 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.
Apr. 2004	Shared Services and CRM 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.
Apr. 2004	HR Outsourcing: Benefits, Challenges, and Trends 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.
Mar. 2004	Strategic Energy Management - The State of the Debate This report is based on a survey of senior executives to determine how businesses currently view and manage energy.
Dec. 2003	Linking People Measures to Strategy This report, based on a survey of 110 participants, explores how organizations are applying human capital measures in their individual businesses.
Dec. 2003	Managing Customer Data for Strategic Advantage This report presents the findings of a recent survey of 45 companies on the goals, effectiveness, and importance of their customer data management programs.
Nov. 2003	Driving Toward ''0'' This study is a benchmark on corporate safety culture and a rating of the policies and best practices that affect corporate safety performance.
Oct. 2003	The CEO Challenge 2003: Top Marketplace and Management Issues 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.
Sept. 2003	Forging Strategic Business Alignment This report identifies best practices in leading a successful alignment strategy from a senior management perspective.
July 2003	Corporate Security Management: Organization and Spending Since 9/11 This comprehensive study reveals business spending patterns since the attacks of September 11, 2001.
July 2003	Outsourcing Trends This study examines the success factors and "next practices" in IT and business process outsourcing.
June 2003	Human Resources at Corporate Headquarters: A Management Update This study of how companies currently organize the human resources function at their corporate headquarters highlights key roles, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.
Oct. 2002	The CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues-2002 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.
Sept. 2002	HR Outsourcing Trends This study examines the benefits, challenges, and alternatives to HR outsourcing.
Mar. 2002	Transforming the Supply Chain 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).
Nov. 2001	Managing Culture in Mergers and Acquisitions 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.
Oct. 2001	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Conservation of Forests, Farmlands, and Wetlands This report outlines the current status of agreements between government, business, and non-governmental organizations for the preservation of open spaces.
Aug. 2001	The Role of B2B Exchanges and Implications for the Future This report provides an overview of B2B exchanges and implications for the future based current activities and projections by participants in the B2B process.
July 2001	Executive Insights: Merging and Acquiring for Growth This report examines data on successful mergers that have fueled top-line growth.
June 2001	E-Business Strategies in the Global Marketplace: E-Procurement and Other Challenges 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.
June 2001	ERP Trends 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.
May 2001	Organizing for Global Competitiveness The Role of Corporate Headquarters and Its Leadership in Organizational Integration.
Mar. 2001	Managing Growth: Smart Strategies for Smaller and Mid-Sized Companies 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.
Mar. 2001	IT Outsourcing Trends 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.
Jan. 2001	The CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues 2001 506 CEOs of U.S., European, and Asian companies select the top three "marketplace" and "management" challenges they face in 2001.
Dec. 2000	Knowledge Management: Becoming an E-Learning Organization This report focuses on the role of knowledge management and organizational learning within the New Economy.
Oct. 2000	Company Programs for Resisting Corrupt Practices: A Global Study This report looks at policies, practices, and procedures that represent standards of best practice for company efforts to resist corrupt practices.
July 2000	Performance Measurement During Merger and Acquisition Integration This study demonstrates the contribution of performance measurement to the success of merger or acquisition integration.
June 2000	Corporate Governance and Cross-Border Mergers This report discusses the role of corporate governance before, during, and after a cross-border merger.
May 2000	Speed: Linking Innovation, Process and Time to Market 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.
May 2000	Corporate Environmental Governance: Benchmarks Toward a World-Class System This study probes the planning, development, and implementation processes of environmental management systems within 45 leading organizations.
Mar. 2000	The Office of the Chief Executive: Current Patterns and Challenges This study explores the current state of the executive office.
Mar. 2000	Beyond Knowledge Management: New Ways to Work 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.
Jan. 2000	Implementing a Post-Merger Integration 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.
Oct. 1999	Aligning Strategic Performance Measures and Results This research report offers key findings that demonstrate the capability of strategic performance measurement systems to improve business results.
June 1999	The CEO Challenge: Top Marketplace and Management Issues What are the top bosses thinking? Find out in this survey, where more than 650 CEOs say what's on their minds.
June 1999	Globalizing the Board of Directors: Trends and Strategies Are you trying to take your organization's board global? You should. Here's a look at the ways to go about it.
June 1999	Post-Merger Organization Handbook Your company's just been merged. Now how do you blend your staffs, operations and resources to make it work? The answers are here.
June 1999	The Expanding Parameters of Global Corporate Citizenship 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
June 1999	The Future Organization: New Leadership and Employee Roles As traditional command-and-control management structures crumble in the dawning information era, companies are scrambling to build new organizational models
May 1999	Global Corporate Ethics Practices: A Developing Consensus 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.
Mar. 1999	Organizing for Global Competitiveness: The Corporate Headquarters Design How should you organize corporate headquarters to compete successfully around the world? This survey shows how 89 organizations do it.
Feb. 1999	Understanding Productivity Growth: Entry, Survival, and the Competitive Process Do new plants outperform old plants? This study looks at a variety of factors to answer that question.
Feb. 1999	Concepts for the New Leadership 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.
Sept. 1998	How Growth Creates Value: Aligning Your Enterprise Here's how some companies have planned for growth—and succeeded.
June 1998	Managing Knowledge in the New Economy What is knowledge management? And why should your company be using it? Find out with this report.
June 1998	Using Market Mechanisms in Environmental Regulation Will the market drive companies to "better" behavior regarding the environment? Here's a look at answers to that question.
Mar. 1998	Shared Services: Achieving Higher Levels of Performance Is shared services an idea whose time has come? Read how it's worked for these major organizations.
Mar. 1998	Innovative Public-Private Partnerships: Environmental Initiatives Is a partnership between your company and a regulatory agency a possibility? Maybe it should be. Here are some keys to making it work.
Feb. 1998	Meeting the Challenge of Global Logistics As the entire world provides you with suppliers, your challenges—and opportunities—in logistics grow. Here's a look at what you can do.
Jan. 1998	Global Growth Strategies 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.
July 1997	Strategic Alliances: Institutionalizing Partnering Capabilities Why reinvent the wheel of alliances? Learn from executives who have developed a formula for repeatable success in partnerships.
June 1997	Environmental Policy-Making A more rational approach: What are the goals when corporations do risk assessment and cost-benefit analysis?
June 1997	CFO 2000: The CFO as Global Business Partner An examination of CFOs' constantly evolving relationships with shareholders, chief executives, senior managers, and financial staffs.
June 1997	The Total Quality Journey 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.
Feb. 1997	Case Studies in Strategic Performance Measurement How do you measure strategic performance effectively? Here are real-world answers from corporations that have done it.
Jan. 1997	EH&S: A Platform for Progress Why leave your EHS function out in the cold? This report focuses on how to integrate it at the business-unit and corporate level.
Aug. 1996	Organizing for Global Competitiveness This overview summarizes four of the most popular reports in The Conference Board's series on global organization design.
July 1996	Strategic Purchasing: Sourcing for the Bottom Line Here are the tools to improve your supplier management and, of course, your bottom line.
June 1996	Corporate EH&S Reward Programs Employee-recognition programs can boost your company's performance in EHS. This report shows how such programs can aid your strategic planning.

Taxation

Aug. 2000

E-Commerce Tax Policy and Planning: Domestic and International
This report details the many issues with which a senior corporate executive involved in electronic business should be familiar