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CEO Challenge®

  1. 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. (CEO Challenge®, November 2008)
  2. CEO Challenge 2010: Top 10 Challenges

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

    (CEO Challenge®, February 2010)
  3. CEO Challenge 2011: Fueling Business Growth with Innovation and Talent Development
    This year’s report is entirely new and features a fully revised and condensed set of 10 overall challenges (down from 84 in previous surveys) and a more in-depth strategy section that highlights the need for clear organizational alignment, teamwork, and s (CEO Challenge®, April 2011)
  4. Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2013 Summary Report: Countering the Global Slowdown
    Respondents to the latest edition of the annual survey of business leaders by The Conference Board indicate a focus on internal challenges. (CEO Challenge®, January 2013)

Council Perspectives

  1. Giving the Working Poor a Working Chance
    How can business and the world’s corporations help efforts to alleviate global poverty? And what is the rationale for getting involved? (Council Perspectives, February 2011)

Economics Program Working Paper Series

  1. Comprehensive Benchmark Revisions for The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for the United States
    by Gad Levanon, Ataman Ozyildirim, Brian Schaitkin, and Justyna Zabinska
    December 2011 - EPWP #11 – 06 (Economics Program Working Paper Series, December 2011)
  2. Constructing a Data Set on Labour Composition Change
    by Boele Bonthuis
    December 2011 - EPWP #11 – 04 (Economics Program Working Paper Series, December 2011)
  3. Projecting Economic Growth with Growth Accounting Techniques: The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2012 Sources and Methods
    by Vivian Chen, Ben Cheng, Gad Levanon, and Bart van Ark
    November 2011 - EPWP #11 – 07 (Economics Program Working Paper Series, November 2011)
  4. Projecting Global Growth
    by Vivian Chen, Ben Cheng, Gad Levanon, Ataman Ozyildirim and Bart van Ark
    November 2012 - EPWP #12 – 02 (Economics Program Working Paper Series, November 2012)
  5. Using the Leading Credit IndexTM to Predict Turning Points in the U.S. Business Cycle
    by Gad Levanon, Jean-Claude Manini, Ataman Ozyildirim, Brian Schaitkin, and Jennelyn Tanchua
    December 2011 - EPWP #11 – 05 (Economics Program Working Paper Series, December 2011)

Executive Action Report

  1. 2010 Productivity Brief: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies
    The recession left its mark on global productivity, which fell in 2009. With recovery expected in 2010, advanced economies will see renewed productivity gains but continue to shed workers. (Executive Action Report, January 2010)
  2. Compensation & Benefits: A Global View
    What are the most effective strategies for recruiting and retaining high-performing talent when it's a sellers' market, virtually anywhere in the world? (Executive Action Report, January 2008)
  3. Integrating Developing Countries into the Global Supply Chain
    Large and small developing countries have emerged as the new frontiers of the structural change ushered in by the rise of global production and supply networks. (Executive Action Report, August 2011)
  4. Sleepless in Delhi: What Keeps Indian HR Executives Awake at Night?
    India presents unique business challenges, challenges that a number of human resource executives in India were happy to discuss with The Conference Board. (Executive Action Report, June 2011)

Key Findings

  1. Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value Through Better Decision Making
    Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value through Better Decision Making gauges the impact of the financial crisis on FX management practices (Key Findings, December 2009)
  2. Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations
    This report describes how SWP adds value by helping global companies make better business decisions. It details what it takes for companies to advance from a fledgling effort to a more robust version of SWP. (Key Findings, January 2010)

Periodical

  1. Conference Board Labor Markets in Review™: Vol. 2, No. 3, 2012
    This periodical publication offers an expert perspective on the implications of current economic conditions on the labor market, with specific focus on the United States, Europe, and emerging markets. (Periodical, December 2012)

PowerPoint

  1. CEO Challenge 2011: Fueling Business Growth with Innovation and Talent Development
    This year’s report is entirely new and features a fully revised and condensed set of 10 overall challenges (down from 84 in previous surveys) and a more in-depth strategy section. (PowerPoint, April 2011)

Research Report

  1. 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. (Research Report, October 2007)
  2. 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. (Research Report, April 2008)
  3. Corporate Philanthropy with a Global Footprint
    A snapshot of the current state of global corporate philanthropy, specifically benchmarking, structure, strategy, measurement, and cultural and political landscapes for corporate philanthropy from Western Europe to Latin America. (Research Report, March 2013)
  4. Employee Engagement: What Works Now?
    Even when organizations commit to achieving a high level of employee engagement, the goal can be elusive. This report examines the current state of employee engagement practices to discover how companies, even in challenging environments, find success. (Research Report, December 2012)
  5. Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value Through Better Decision Making
    Foreign Exchange Management: Creating Value through Better Decision Making gauges the impact of the financial crisis on FX management practices (Research Report, December 2009)
  6. Giving in Numbers: 2012 Edition
    Produced by the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) in association with The Conference Board, this report analyzes giving trends from 2011 data shared by 214 corporations, including 62 of the top 100 companies in the Fortune 500. (Research Report, June 2012)
  7. 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). (Research Report, June 2008)
  8. 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. (Research Report, March 2008)
  9. Performance 2011: Productivity, Employment, and Growth in the World's Economies
    This report takes a detailed look at the drivers of output growth, comparing the contributions of labor productivity and employment across years and across more than 100 countries. (Research Report, June 2011)
  10. Reading the Tea Leaves: The Impact of China's Twelfth Five-Year Plan on Human Capital Challenges
    This report highlights the major human capital aspects of China’s Twelfth Five Year Plan that are expected to have the greatest impact on business. (Research Report, November 2012)
  11. 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. (Research Report, May 2003)
  12. Safeguarding Intellectual Property and Addressing Corruption in the Global Supply Chain
    Guarding against IP infringement and violation of anti-corruption laws among employees is difficult enough for multinational companies. It is even more challenging to prevent inappropriate behavior by the employees and contracted workers of third parties. (Research Report, December 2012)
  13. State of Human Capital 2012: False Summit
    This report is the result of a joint research effort by The Conference Board and McKinsey & Company to highlight the most significant challenges facing human capital executives. (Research Report, October 2012)
  14. Strategic Workforce Planning across National Borders
    Strategic workforce planning can play a valuable role by questioning the unexamined assumptions that business leaders may be making about the availability, quality, cost, and mobility of talent in critical locations. (Research Report, July 2012)
  15. Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations
    This report describes how SWP adds value by helping global companies make better business decisions. It details what it takes for companies to advance from a fledgling effort to a more robust version of SWP. (Research Report, January 2010)
  16. Sustainability Practices: 2012 Edition
    This report analyzes the most recent disclosure of environmental and social practices by the 3,000 U.S. and non-U.S. public companies that compose the Bloomberg ESG 3000 index. (Research Report, July 2012)

StraightTalk®

  1. StraightTalk®
    Global Economic Outlook 2013: Is the global economic speed limit slowing down?
    From The Conference Board Chief Economist. (StraightTalk®, November 2012)
  2. StraightTalk®
    Special Issue for All Members: Global Economic Outlook 2012
    From The Conference Board Chief Economist. (StraightTalk®, November 2011)
  3. StraightTalk® Special Issue for All Members: Global Economic Outlook 2013
    From The Conference Board Chief Economist: Is the global economic speed limit slowing down? (StraightTalk®, November 2012)

The Conference Board Review

  1. "Just Say No": If only fighting bribery were that simple
    An expansive look at bribery today and how both companies and individual executives should handle sticky situations. (The Conference Board Review, April 2013)
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