Research Working Groups

Benefits of Research Working Group Participation

The Conference Board's Research Working Groups provide a confidential, hands-on environment for companies to work with expert researchers to forge practical solutions for a specific, defined set of business challenges.
Members gain exposure to a select group of peer executives from global companies who are similarly situated in needing to tackle the same challenges.
Collectively, Research Working Group members work with subject matter experts to find actionable solutions through proven methodologies, practical tools, and templates.

Citizenship & Sustainability

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Integrating Corporate and Investor Perspectives
The focus is to better understand and recommend to companies a framework for institutionalizing and mainstreaming their approaches both to designing sustainability programs and to communicating with institutional investors on the nature of these programs.

Stakeholder Engagement on the Global Stage/Special Focus: China
This working group will provide companies with the opportunity to meet with corporate peers and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and stakeholder leaders to build relationships and learn from one another.

Compensation/Benefits

The Wellness Advantage: Redefining and Evaluating a Key Strategic Asset
This research working group will explore how your company can take its current wellness program to the next level and ensure that your wellness efforts are both efficient and effective.

Diversity and Inclusion

Engaging Employees Across Generations in an Economic Downturn
This group will empirically explore whether the differences between "Baby Boomers," "Gen-Xers," and "Millennials" actually exist.

Knowledge Transfer in a Digital World: Using New Media Across Multiple Generations and Geographies
The group will also explore the specific topics of what is truly unique about Millennials, reverse mentoring, collaborative learning methods, and the cultural aspects of cross-generational knowledge transfer.

Leveraging High-Potential Employees
This research working group will explore the implications of developing high-potential employees.

Managing an Aging Workforce in the Nonprofit Sector
This working group will address challenges related to aging and a multigenerational workforce that may have a tremendous impact on the stability, growth, and potential of the nonprofit sector in coming years.

Mature Workforce Challenges
Over 30 percent of the highly skilled workers in Europe will enter the age of retirement within the next 10 years, organizations must consider institutional changes now to retain the talents, energies and knowledge of workers poised to retire.

Economic Environment

Business Forecasting in Uncharted Territory II
is designed to help these managers better identify economic trends and analyze the data most relevant to their own firms.

Enterprise Risk Management

Assessing Offshoring Risks: Thinking Through the Financial and Operational Issues
The Conference Board's new Working Group on Managing Offshoring Risks will provide leaders from organizations at all stages of offshoring operations with a much needed forum to discuss important concerns.

Managing Reputation Risk:
Creating solutions to evaluate and manage your company’s reputation risk
As a member of this Research Working Group, you will develop a framework to assess reputation risk across an organization's operations, functions, practices and policies.

Ethics and Compliance

Ethics & Compliance Criteria in Government Enforcement Decisions
This research working group will create a searchable database of cases from countries where E & C program effectiveness had an impact on the decision to bring charges or on sentence severity.

Governance

HR and Talent Management

Corporate Center Design: Maximizing Shareholder Value
This Research Working Group will help its members answer the question: "How can I help my CEO understand, measure, and communicate the value contribution of the corporate center?"

Defining New Performance HR Targets: Evidence-Based HR
Members will identify the operational and financial key performance indicators that are most relevant to the causal relationship between human capital strategies and business performance.

Engaging Employees Across Generations in an Economic Downturn
This group will empirically explore whether the differences between "Baby Boomers," "Gen-Xers," and "Millennials" actually exist.

Engaging Your Critical Talent in Asia-Pacific
How do you engage and retain critical talent in your organization which are central to implementing business strategies during the economic recovery?

Engaging Your Global Workforce
This Working Group on Engaging a Global Workforce is designed to help you and your organization better understand what is common across the globe, what is distinctive to particular geographies or contexts, and what does and does not work in these contexts

Evidence-Based Human Resources
The Next Generation of Human Capital Metrics and Analytics
The Conference Board Research Working Group on Evidence-Based Human Resources will explore the empirical links between human capital and business performance.

Growing Talent for Succession Research Working Group
This Research Working Group will address the high-leverage strategy, process, tools, and mindset necessary for growing talent for succession.

Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning Research Working Group
To help your company's transition and further your understanding of the complexities of Strategic Workforce Planning, this working group will explore best practices through discussions, presentations, and member-guided research.

Leveraging High-Potential Employees
This research working group will explore the implications of developing high-potential employees.

Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations
This working group will focus on the challenges of planning, managing, and shaping a global workforce.

Marketing and Communications

Operations and Business Processes

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