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Marketing & Brand Strategy Publications
CEO Challenge®
CEO Challenges in the Gulf Region
April 2014 | CEO Challenge®
CEOs in the Gulf region reported a significantly different set of priorities than did CEOs globally, with strategies that reflect the particular business challenges of a resource-rich, energy-dependent region.
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2014: People and Performance
January 2014 | CEO Challenge®
While CEOs see talent as the critical link in meeting their top business challenges, the 2014 CEO Challenge survey results show a heightened focus on customers and reputation and less concern about regulation and external risk.
CEO Challenge 2010: Top 10 Challenges
February 2010 | CEO Challenge®
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.
China Center Publications
China Center Data Flash: Q3 "rebound" will fizzle in Q4
September 2013 | China Center Publications
China's official economic data continued to improve in August from July, as expected,
but this momentum is not projected to last into Q4 2013.
China Center Chart of the Week: Falling home production is an opportunity for services sector development (part 1 of 2)
September 2013 | China Center Publications
Chinese households are spending fewer hours per week onchildcare and other kinds of housework including grocery shopping, cooking, and doing laundry, which is releasing demand for services.
China Center Chart of the Week: Home production trends highlight opportunity to boost household consumption of services (part 2 of 2)
September 2013 | China Center Publications
Except for house cleaning, Chinese households spend more time than their American counterparts on household production, and the viability of service sector market substitutions for this work has increased.
China Center Quick Note: Protecting the "home team" -- the flagging and flogging of the foreign-invested dairy sector
September 2013 | China Center Publications
Multinational consumer brands appear to be under attack from regulators and state-sponsored media in China—if not overtly, then at least with aggressive, "nonnational treatment." >
Conference KeyNotes
Creating Personal Emotional Connections with Employees and Customers: Insights from The 2014 Extending Your Brand to Employees Conference
August 2014 | Conference KeyNotes
Defining and living your company's larger purpose so that employees engage emotionally ensures that they, as ambassadors, best represent your company brand to customers.
How Industry Leaders Get Customers to Fall in Love with Their Experience: Insights from The 2014 Customer Experience Conference
May 2014 | Conference KeyNotes
The keys to wowing your customers include having happy employees, putting customers first, and providing a personalized, interactive experience.
Strategies That Transform the Organization: Insights from The 2013 Senior Corporate Communication Management Conference
March 2014 | Conference KeyNotes
Today's corporate communications departments are the equivalent of an internal media company that helps roll out new strategies, enhance customer experience, and increase employee engagement.
Social Media for Human Resources Conference KeyNotes Report
November 2013 | Conference KeyNotes
As companies look to increase productivity of human capital, HR's responsibility for innovation, talent development, and engagement has risen. Firms are using social media to excel in these areas.
2013 Employee Health Care Conference KeyNotes Report
September 2013 | Conference KeyNotes
Upcoming health care reform and rising health care costs are forcing companies to change how they approach the health care benefits and increase their focus on wellness.
2013 Extending Your Brand to Employees Conference KeyNotes Report
August 2013 | Conference KeyNotes
Your brand is only as strong as your employees, so build an emotional connection to the brand that allows them to live your purpose and exhibit brand-specific behavior.
Corporate Image and Branding Conference KeyNotes Report
May 2013 | Conference KeyNotes
Companies that can distill the complexity of their business into a simple and compelling message can win the enthusiasm of employees and the market.
2013 Customer Experience Leadership Conference KeyNotes Report
April 2013 | Conference KeyNotes
Social media may have changed the retail experience, but digital technology has given companies tools for coping with and capitalizing on that change.
2012 Senior Corporate Communication Management Conference KeyNotes Report
February 2013 | Conference KeyNotes
Since the communication department is integral to driving business, communications professionals need to understand the business side of the organization.
Extending Your Brand to Employees Conference KeyNotes Report
August 2012 | Conference KeyNotes
Over the last two years, companies have become more focused on employer branding, but determining the one meaningful brand message to communicate remains a challenge.
2012 Change Management Conference KeyNotes Report
August 2012 | Conference KeyNotes
Globalization has level playing fields and revolutionized power structures, and keeping up with all of the changes requires conscious effort.
2012 Customer Experience Leadership Conference KeyNotes Report
May 2012 | Conference KeyNotes
In an increasingly connected world, companies are in danger of overlooking the secret ingredient that makes for a good customer experience—the personal touch.
2011 Senior Corporate Communications
Management Conference KeyNotes Report
March 2012 | Conference KeyNotes
Communicators have become closer strategic partners with senior management as they work together to enable the organization to respond and adapt to rapid change.
2011 Customer Loyalty Conference KeyNotes Report
March 2012 | Conference KeyNotes
The keys to having loyal customers include knowing your customers personally, knowing what they want, and delivering it to them, sometimes before they even realize they want it.
Council Perspectives
Reframing the Issue: New Ways to Think about Cyber Risk and Security
December 2013 | Council Perspectives
Cyber risk is just one of many operational risks, and, from a business viewpoint, mitigation of cyber risk should focus on fundamental risk management, corporate resilience, and managing human behavior.
Managing the Conversation
March 2012 | Council Perspectives
While branding has always been about shaping experiences, today, in the age of 24/7 communication and social media, the challenge has shifted from shaping the message to managing an active conversation.
Competitive Intelligence: A Critical Tool for Innovation
April 2011 | Council Perspectives
The "next big thing" could hit at any time and revolutionize your industry, leaving you with outdated products, processes, partners, and business models. Competitive intelligence (CI) can provide critical insights into what your competitors are doing.
Best Practices in Managing Information
Vendor Portfolios
November 2010 | Council Perspectives
This council perspective outlines a set of best practices to help content managers ensure the organization gets the best value for its investment in licensed information resources.
Corporate Brands: Strategies for the New Normal
March 2010 | Council Perspectives
This report is an issue-specific excerpt from Council Perspectives (CP-015) Corporate Brands: Meeting the Challenges of Changing Times.
Cracking the Financial Code
March 2010 | Council Perspectives
This report is an issue-specific excerpt from Council Perspectives (CP-015) Corporate Brands: Meeting the Challenges of Changing Times.
Social Media and Word-of-Mouth Marketing
March 2010 | Council Perspectives
What will the operating landscape - the new normal - look like post-recession? It will be a tougher place to manage a corporate brand. Companies simply won't be able to do things the way they always have. But that may not be such a bad thing.
Director Notes
Diversity on Corporate Boards: How Much Difference Does "Difference" Make?
January 2015 | Director Notes
This report evaluates the case for diversity on corporate boards of directors in light of competing research findings and suggests strategies to promote more inclusive boards.
Corporate Social Responsibility in India
August 2014 | Director Notes
Given India's global influence, there is much potential for its vision of mandatory CSR, which anticipates CSR as a central component of corporate activity, to spread to the rest of the world.
How Well Do Corporate Directors Know Senior Management?
March 2014 | Director Notes
Companies can improve the quality of their CEO succession and internal talent development programs by fostering regular formal and informal interaction between directors and senior management.
Link Between Brand Value and Sustainability
October 2013 | Director Notes
Across a range of industries, regions, and enterprise values, there is a correlation between a company's sustainability performance and the strength of its brand for consumers.
Global Trends in Board-Shareholder Engagement
October 2013 | Director Notes
Notwithstanding the potential benefits of engaging shareholders, board directors hesitate to do it—sometimes, rightly so. Real-world examples serve as guidance for those trying to develop an effective engagement program.
Social Issues in the 2013 Proxy Season
September 2013 | Director Notes
More than half of the shareholder proposals on social issues submitted at Russell 3000 companies that held meetings during the first half of 2013 went to a vote.
Driving Real Value with CSR
September 2013 | Director Notes
Spending on corporate social responsibility (CSR) doesn't automatically create economic value. Executives who understand when and how to deploy responsible practices, however, can use CSR to improve their bottom line.
Communicating Sustainability Leadership
The Difficulty of Achieving Differentiation
April 2013 | Director Notes
The overall decline in perceived performance of sustainability initiatives for two-thirds of companies in a recent study may be the result of rising skepticism about the benefits of sustainability programs.
What Do Corporate Directors and Senior Managers Know about Social Media?
October 2012 | Director Notes
This report provides insights into how senior-level decision makers in North American companies view social media, and offers recommendations for implementing a social media strategy that ties in with corporate strategy and risk management practices.
Handling a Corporate Crisis
August 2012 | Director Notes
In today's climate, securities and financial firms are likely to face some enforcement proceedings that create a situation fraught with potential pitfalls. This report discusses 10 prescriptions for handling these situations well.
Influence of Proxy Advisory Firm Voting Recommendations on Say-on-Pay Votes and Executive Compensation Decisions
March 2012 | Director Notes
This report examines evidence of the influence of proxy advisory firm voting recommendations on shareholder voting outcomes, particularly say-on-pay votes, and presents findings showing the impact of those firms on the design of executive pay programs.
Role of the Board in Accelerating the Adoption of Integrated Reporting
November 2011 | Director Notes
This report examines the concept of integrated reporting and its current state of adoption around the globe.
Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility
June 2011 | Director Notes
This report documents some of the potential bottom-line benefits to companies of being attentive to CSR: reducing cost and risk, gaining competitive advantage, developing and maintaining legitimacy and reputational capital, and achieving win-win outcomes
Measuring the Effects of Corporate Social Responsibility
April 2011 | Director Notes
This report discusses a model for measuring the efficient and effective use of corporate resources allocated to CSR activities.
Economics Program Working Paper Series
Brands as Productive Assets: Concepts, Measurement, and Global Trends
November 2013 | Economics Program Working Paper Series
by Carol A. Corrado and Janet X. Hao
This paper finds that conventional measures misrepresent brand spending trends in the United States because those metrics do not take into account increased spending on social media and strategic marketing.
Tracking Business Cycles in Brazil with Composite Indexes of Coincident and Leading Economic Indicators
August 2013 | Economics Program Working Paper Series
by Aloisio Campelo Jr., Jing Sima-Friedman, Sarah Lima, Ataman Ozyildirim, Paulo PicchettiAugust 2013 - EPWP #13 – 06
Intangible Capital and the Market to Book Value Puzzle
June 2008 | Economics Program Working Paper Series
by Charles Hulten and Janet Hao, June 2008. - EPWP #08 – 02
Innovation, Intangibles and Economic Growth: Towards A Comprehensive Accounting of the Knowledge Economy
December 2007 | Economics Program Working Paper Series
by Bart van Ark and Charles R. Hulten, December 2007. - EPWP #07 – 02
Executive Action Report
Joining the Conversation
May 2015 | Executive Action Report
Companies are looking to social media not only to get insights on the future of the consumer, but to advance their brands online by building relationships with social media users.
You Know Social Media Is Advancing Your Brand—Now Prove It
March 2015 | Executive Action Report
Assessing and communicating the business impact of social media requires assigning values to human reactions, establishing correlations, and adapting or rethinking traditional marketing metrics.
Creating the Right Voice and Content for Social Media
December 2014 | Executive Action Report
Companies must craft the right brand voice and content to get a bigger impact from their social branding efforts. Firms are expanding their view of their customers for more opportunities to engage with them.
Growing Value of Brands and Their Contribution to Worldwide Economic Growth
July 2014 | Executive Action Report
The contribution of brands is comparable to that of R&D in most advanced economies. Moreover, the wealthier a country grows, the more its companies spend on getting out their brand message.
How Can Companies Make the Value of Intangibles More, Well, Tangible?
June 2014 | Executive Action Report
There is a critical need to develop better standards for measuring, reporting, benchmarking, and analyzing intangible investments.
Building the Foundation of an Innovative Culture: Human Capital's Role in Making It Happen
May 2014 | Executive Action Report
Although most organizations agree that innovation is important for sustainability and growth, few do it well. To help reverse that trend in your organization, this report presents four recommendations and examples from top companies for innovation.
Why CEOs Need to Care about
Trust in Business
April 2014 | Executive Action Report
Capitalism depends on public trust for its legitimacy. If public trust in business is low, governments and regulators act. But what are the business and governance standards that establish confidence?
Link between Human Capital and Sustainability
December 2013 | Executive Action Report
A good understanding of the link between human capital and sustainability can help company directors identify how investing in the right sustainability programs can drive significant improvements in human capital.
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2013: Human Capital Practitioners Respond
October 2013 | Executive Action Report
According to an annual survey of chief executives, CEOs consider human capital their top challenge. How do their strategies to address this issue compare to those of human capital practitioners?
How Much Does Your Company Really Invest in Innovation?
October 2013 | Executive Action Report
Innovation is more than R&D. It includes the full range of activities needed to implement or commercialize new ideas. But how are those activities measured for bottom-line impact?
Vets Returning to the Workforce
October 2013 | Executive Action Report
Employers have a talent shortage, particularly in technical fields. Returning veterans are an often overlooked talent pool that offers a gold mine of applied and technical skills in these areas.
What Is Human Rights Risk? Should My Company Be Concerned about It?
September 2013 | Executive Action Report
Explore what human rights risk is, why companies should care, and how they can incorporate human rights due diligence into their business processes.
Get Connected: How Social Collaboration Can Help Companies Navigate a Complex Business Landscape
June 2013 | Executive Action Report
To remain competitive, companies should embrace social collaboration— employees and business partners contributing and connecting via an enterprise-wide virtual environment.
Happiness Premium: What Companies Should Know about Leveraging Happiness in the Workplace
March 2013 | Executive Action Report
A focus on employee happiness makes for a holistic approach to the idea of contentment in the workplace, and can greatly influence company performance overall.
CEO Challenge Reflections: Social Media Goes to Work
October 2011 | Executive Action Report
The implications of social media in the workplace—for product development, go-to-market strategies, customer relations, corporate branding, and recruiting—are enormous. Why then are so many senior executives reluctant to take the plunge?
Get Social: A Guide to Creating Your Company's Social Media Strategy
October 2011 | Executive Action Report
Most organizations realize the importance of participating in social media but do not have a formal plan on how to make the most of it. This report discusses specifics and best practices for planning a social media strategy.
Achieving Resilience: Planning for Flexibility during Crisis
September 2011 | Executive Action Report
Planning and preparation are as essential as ever, but now they must be flexible, incorporating the capacity to respond to unique developments in a crisis.
Volunteering- A New Training and Transition Tool
September 2011 | Executive Action Report
Challenging times call for companies of all sizes to be more creative about how they do business, and how they inspire and motivate their employees.
Managing Brands in a Topsy-Turvy Marketing Environment
February 2011 | Executive Action Report
To create excitement for a new brand, or refresh a tired brand, bring together networks of satisfied customers and user groups to share their experiences and generate word-of-mouth.
Harnessing the Power Within: Using Your Employees to Help Deliver the Brand Promise
May 2010 | Executive Action Report
This report discusses how creating an internal branding model will help employees understand and connect to your core brand, then communicate that brand message to your customers.
Reengaging Lost Customers
February 2010 | Executive Action Report
What can be done to win back customers that have proven loyal in the past and who may account for a significant portion of profits? A Mid-market Conversation Starter.
Solving the Customer's Price Issues.
February 2010 | Executive Action Report
This Mid-Market Conversation Starter gives you a couple of new perspectives from which to think about solving customer price issues.
Ready or Not: Companies and the Sustainability Tipping Point
February 2010 | Executive Action Report
The challenge for companies is how to make sustainability-centric approaches deliver not only on the financial bottom line but also on a broader platform of ecological and social accountabilities and goals that make up the sustainability blend.
A Crisis of Confidence
January 2009 | Executive Action Report
Despite ongoing concerns that the current economic crisis could end up resembling The Great Depression, data so far shows that this recession is in far better shape than the circumstances of 1929.
Precision Marketing: Five Ways to Make Better Marketing Investment Decisions
October 2008 | Executive Action Report
As customers tune out the torrent of information and messages, traditional measures to determine the effectiveness of marketing campaigns are no longer reliable.
Connecting Emotions and Personality to Your Corporate Image and Brands
August 2007 | Executive Action Report
When it comes to building and maintaining a corporate brand, today's democratized market is no place for top-down, hierarchical thinking. In this climate, an authoritative tone is as apt to cause resentment as it is to increase sales.
Crafting a Strategy for Virtual Worlds: Eight Questions to Ask
August 2007 | Executive Action Report
Virtual worlds are emerging fast on the business landscape, but few companies have developed a strategy to deal with them. How can you take advantage of this new technology?
Finding a Definition of Employee Engagement
June 2007 | Executive Action Report
Determining a practical definition of employee engagement is a personal exercise. Companies must determine, "What is employee engagement to us?" based on drivers such as company pride and manager relationships.
How Smaller Companies Earn Customer Loyalty
August 2005 | Executive Action Report
How do you develop customer loyalty? How do you measure it? How do you profit from it?
Key Lessons Learned from Putting a Disaster Plan into Action
December 2004 | Executive Action Report
This report presents the key lessons learned from carrying out disaster plans and the seven keys to preparedness should a catastrophe strike.
A Failure to Communicate . . .Twelve Habits of Effective Writers
May 2004 | Executive Action Report
With the advances in media and technology, getting your message delivered has never been easier. However, it is also easier than ever to be misunderstood or overlooked in today's deluged inboxes.
Strategic Planning for the Time-challenged
May 2004 | Executive Action Report
For many smaller and mid-sized companies, whose management resources tend to be stretched thin, a simplified approach to planning works best.
Business Environment Abounds with Angry Questions: How to Answer a Zinger
January 2004 | Executive Action Report
Forget the office-speak, euphemisms, circumlocutions, and spin control. The key to dealing with challenging questions in the workplace is to understand that they often have a genuine emotional component.
Branding Challenges in the Great China Breakout
December 2003 | Executive Action Report
The domestic market in China for many manufactured goods is heavily saturated in several sectors, leading to stiff competition and squeezing profit margins. This is causing Chinese manufacturers to launch their brands on the world market.
Managing Domain Names
October 2003 | Executive Action Report
A clear domain name policy coupled with a basic program to manage and secure domain names helps companies rationalize their digital assets, improve security, and strengthen the value of their brand on the Internet.
E-mail Management and Distribution Tools—A Primer
August 2003 | Executive Action Report
Overcoming the challenges of customer email, such as 24-hour access, meeting expectations for timely responses, and archival and access capabilities, can become costly without the appropriate strategy and management tools.
Marketing's New Path to Profitability
April 2003 | Executive Action Report
With budgets shrinking, the pressure is on marketers to demonstrate real and immediate returns on their investments. (Download Spanish version)
One Year After: The Leadership and Communication Dilemma of 9-11-02
August 2002 | Executive Action Report
For corporate leaders on the anniversary of 9/11, listening may become more important than speaking.
Coping With the Coming Wave of Web Communication
April 2002 | Executive Action Report
Looks at Web conferencing and collaboration systems: how they work, how to create a successful enterprise strategy for them, and their outlook.
Human Capital in Review
Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 2, No. 3, 2013)
October 2013 | Human Capital in Review
This publication explores hot topics within employee engagement research. This issue includes articles on the effect of recessions on productivity and strategies for gaining stakeholder buy-in.
Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Talent Management (Vol. 3, No. 3, 2013)
September 2013 | Human Capital in Review
This publication explores hot topics within talent management research. This issue includes articles on: engaging with marketing in recruitment, effects of company reputation, and accelerating leadership development.
Conference Board Human Capital in Review™: Focus on Employee Engagement (Vol. 2, No. 1, 2013)
April 2013 | Human Capital in Review
This publication explores hot topics within employee engagement research. This issue includes articles on: incorrect survey practices, engagement of the younger workforce, and alternative approaches to improving engagement scores.
Key Business Issues
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2015: Australia Edition
May 2015 | Key Business Issues
In 2015, CEOs in Australia are focused on customers, talent development, and technology issues.
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2015: Creating Opportunity out of Adversity—Building Innovative, People-Driven Organizations
January 2015 | Key Business Issues
CEOs are undeterred in their quest for new sources of growth and show few signs of hunkering down in the defensive postures seen in the years immediately following the 2008 financial crisis.
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2015: Creating Opportunity out of Adversity—Building Innovative, People-Driven Organizations (CHRO)
January 2015 | Key Business Issues
CEOs cite high-quality talent as their most critical business challenge, and they expect human capital practitioners to devise effective "grow-your-own" strategies to engage and develop their future workforces.
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2015: Creating Opportunity out of Adversity—Building Innovative, People-Driven Organizations (Strategic Overview)
January 2015 | Key Business Issues
In the current slow-growth global economic environment, CEOs say they are relying on product and process innovation, more productive use of technology, a stronger leadership bench, and increased employee engagement to contribute to organizational success.
Long Soft Fall in Chinese Growth: Strategic Overview
December 2014 | Key Business Issues
In an unprecedented time of slow economic growth in China, CEOs and CSOs can look to this Strategic Overview for detailed recommendations on how to plan and prepare their organizations for a long soft fall.
Key Findings
Is Age Really Just a Number? Investigating Approaches to Employee Engagement
July 2010 | Key Findings
To be any good at all, an employee engagement strategy has to capture the real concerns of employees.
Frameworks for Integrating Citizenship and Sustainability into Business Strategies and Operations
June 2009 | Key Findings
This report explores the approaches of 11 North American companies with well-established citizenship and sustainability practices.
Managing Reputation Risk and Reward
April 2009 | Key Findings
This report examines the challenges companies face as they work to safeguard and enhance their reputations among customers, investors, employees, and other stakeholders.
Issues in Intangibles, Vol.1 No. 2, Spring 2012
May 2012 | Periodical
Intangible assets are key to competitiveness in the knowledge economy. In this edition of Intangibles Quarterly, Professor Baruch Lev discusses how a firm can keep effective records of intangible assets and how they may affect decision making.
Issues in Intangibles, Vol. 1, No. 1
February 2012 | Periodical
This first release in a new series from The Conference Board focuses on intangible assets—why they matter, how they are measured, and their importance to both national economies and individual firms.
Proxy Voting Fact Sheet
Proxy Voting Fact Sheet (July 2013)
July 2013 | Proxy Voting Fact Sheet
Both the volume of shareholder proposals submitted and the rate of withdrawals increased among Russell 3000 and S&P 500 companies that held meetings during the first half of 2013.
Proxy Voting Fact Sheet (May 2013)
May 2013 | Proxy Voting Fact Sheet
Management was successful in omitting nearly one-quarter of shareholder proposals submitted at companies that held meetings during the January—April period. Nearly two-thirds of filed proposals went to a vote.
Proxy Voting Fact Sheet (March 2013)
March 2013 | Proxy Voting Fact Sheet
At the start of the 2013 proxy season, proposals to declassify the board were the most frequently voted proposal topic and had the highest level of shareholder support.
Proxy Voting Fact Sheet (July 2012)
July 2012 | Proxy Voting Fact Sheet
This edition contains a snapshot of the most relevant proxy season data for Russell 3000 companies that held annual general meetings (AGMs) between January 1 and June 30, 2012.
Research Report
Business Case for Corporate Investment in Sustainable Practices
May 2015 | Research Report
A growing body of research based on quantifiable bottom-line results shows that investments in environmental, social, and governance initiatives produce a positive impact on financial market performance.
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2014: Latin America Edition
April 2014 | Research Report
This report provides an analysis of survey results from the Latin America region, providing a unique vision that top executives share in these emerging markets.
Conference Board CEO Challenge® 2014: ASEAN Edition
April 2014 | Research Report
CEOs in ASEAN are seeking strong business leadership that is able to drive change and not afraid to boldly innovate (and even fail) in a performance-focused environment.
Connect, Converse, Create: How Companies Can Generate Value through Internal Social Collaboration
March 2014 | Research Report
This report explores why internal social collaboration (ISC) is necessary in the modern workplace, and examines how organizations can increase its adoption and engineer ISC for success.
Recommendations of the Task Force on Corporate/Investor Engagement
March 2014 | Research Report
The task force examined the facts, the issues, and the policy implications of the current state of US corporate governance and here offers their recommendations.
Sustainability Matters 2014: How Sustainability Can Enhance Corporate Reputation
January 2014 | Research Report
Brand recognition and reputation are among the most valuable intangible assets of any company. In turn, sustainability initiatives have the potential to significantly impact corporate brand and reputation.
Strategic Talent Management: Where We Need to Go
September 2013 | Research Report
Systems thinking, a talent for data analysis, and change management skills are two of the critical competencies that talent management leaders need to contribute to and enhance business outcomes.
Addressing National Talent Shortages: What Countries Are Doing, What Companies Can Learn
September 2013 | Research Report
Companies can learn a lot about effective strategic workforce planning by looking at the steps India, Canada, and Singapore are taking to shore up their future talent supply needs.
Giving in Numbers: 2013 Edition
September 2013 | Research Report
Fifty-nine percent of companies recommitted to their communities by giving more to charity in 2012 than they did before the recession took hold in late 2007.
Employee Engagement in a VUCA World: A Review of Current Research and Its Implications
July 2011 | Research Report
This report combines analysis of some of the most important employee engagement research of today and puts it into perspective for members.
Reputation Risk: A Corporate Governance Perspective
December 2007 | Research Report
Corporate boards can and should assess their fiduciary responsibilities in the area of reputation risk management--and they should do it long before it's necessary. Here's how.
Employee Engagement
A Review of Current Research and Its Implications
November 2006 | Research Report
This literature review summarizes what is known on the topic of "Employee Engagement" and what companies can do to foster true engagement in the workplace.
Improving Communications Between Companies and Investors
November 2004 | Research Report
Based on The Conference Board's Global Corporate Governance Research Center's first transnational Corporate/Investor Summit, this report represents a unique consensus on best practices to improve communications between companies and investors.
Managing Customer Data for Strategic Advantage
December 2003 | Research Report
This report presents the findings of a recent survey of 45 companies on the goals, effectiveness, and importance of their customer data management programs.
Sustaining Customer Care in a Rapidly Changing Business World: A Snapshot of Practices
September 2003 | Research Report
This study attempts to gauge the fast-changing technologies and approaches taken in maximizing customer and, hence, corporate value.
Beyond the Hype: E-nabling the Sales and Marketing Force
December 2002 | Research Report
This report describes the impact of e-nabling, defined as the implementation of digital and communication technologies for the purposes of improving performance and creating the real-time enterprise.
Engaging Employees Through Your Brand
April 2001 | Research Report
Branding is well established as a marketing strategy, and, for most enterprises today, no market is more competitive than the market for employees.
Implementing a Post-Merger Integration
January 2000 | Research Report
Executives and business experts discuss some of the global trends in M&A and share their experiences in developing a strategic context for M&A integration, creating a corporate culture, and measuring integration success.
Communicating in the Future
June 1999 | Research Report
What's the best way to manage your company's relations with the media? What about using your intranet to reach your employees? The answers are here.
Power of Marketing Innovation
March 1999 | Research Report
Will interactive marketing give your company the edge? Can you revive "lost" customers? These and other questions are answered in this report featuring the experience of Colgate-Palmolive, IBM, and Kodak, among others.
Managing the Corporate Brand
May 1998 | Research Report
Companies want more out of their brand—and this report looks at successful methods for getting it.
Managing Reputation with Image and Brands
April 1998 | Research Report
How can you take full advantage of one of your company's biggest assets? This report captures the experience of some of Europe and the United States' best known companies.
Communicating For Global Competitive Advantage
August 1997 | Research Report
If companies want to win global competitive advantage faster than the competition, they need to communicate better than their competitors to all stakeholders and have a global state of mind.
Communicating Corporate Performance: A Delicate Balance
July 1997 | Research Report
As companies decide to make performance-related information available to investors, they must weigh how much to disclose to obtain a fair valuation against the risks of such disclosure.
StraightTalk® Special Issue for All Members:
Global Economic Outlook 2014
November 2013 | StraightTalk®
From The Conference Board Chief Economist Bart van Ark comes in-depth analysis of the global economy and resulting projections for 2014, 2014-2019, and 2019-2025.
The Conference Board Review
Beyond Buzz: Mining the Future of PR
April 2014 | The Conference Board Review
Too much of public relations is based on gut feelings or past practice. The challenge is to use data—not on the back end of a program in counting clips or measuring outcomes but, rather, on the front end in the development of strategies.
Surprise! Chinese Consumers Are Not Americans: Savio Chan takes a close look at buying behaviors in the Far East
April 2014 | The Conference Board Review
In a Q&A, Savio Chan of US China Partners shares his insights on how American businesses can better connect with Chinese consumers.
Treat Your Employees Like Consumers: They don't all want the same things.
April 2014 | The Conference Board Review
With corporate workforce increasingly global and diverse, HR departments are recognizing the ineffectiveness of dealing with every employee in exactly the same way.
We Are All Chief Risk Officers Now
April 2014 | The Conference Board Review
Risk management used to be someone else's job—usually the head of security. But today, practically everyone's job requires managing risk in some form.
Who's Holding You Accountable? Christine Bader wants to fill companies with corporate idealists.
April 2014 | The Conference Board Review
A Q&A with "corporate idealist" Christine Bader, who spent nine years at BP and now seeks to aid those who want to help corporations both do good and do well.
Making the Switch: Are skills really transferable between jobs within an organization?
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
A successful job-rotation program needs to be constructed so the assignment is a stretch and brings value, but not so much of a stretch that you lose a good employee.
Marketing Without Marketing: Consumers are harder than ever to reach, but don't make it obvious that you're trying harder than ever to reach them.
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
Brand journalism is one way smart marketers rise above the clutter of internet advertising. As a marketer, the key is to figure out where people's interests and your competencies overlap.
Stop Texting Under the Table! A Q&A with etiquette expert Barbara Pachter
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
In a Q&A, etiquette expert Barbara Pachter explains where the rules in and out of the workplace have changed—in particular, with electronic devices—and where classic advice remains valid.
Cost of Losing the American Dream: A view from China
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
After revelations about corporate and government encroachment on Americans' privacy, freedom-starved Chinese cast a less favorable eye on the United States.
There's Still a Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Paul Polak explains why your survival may depend on whether you pick it up
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
Paul Polak has spent the last three decades working to ameliorate poverty, and he's convinced that what works is not charity or government efforts but market-based development.
When Innovation Isn't: By pursuing breakthroughs less indiscriminately, we may just get more of them.
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
The first step to bridging the innovation gap is to cease labeling every new initiative as "innovation."
Who's in Charge Here? Bossless organizations can teach you how to be a better boss.
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
Bossless companies, with minimal internal management structure, have a great deal to teach managers in conventional organizations.
Why We Eat Sandwiches on Our Lunch Break: The evolution of the American worker's midday meal
October 2013 | The Conference Board Review
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But I always thought that Twisted Transistor was about vibrators, not radios. :o
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The album itself is filled with the double entendres. I can see where you got that from Austin.
Does it make me bad??
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no, every time i meet someone who likes korn they say that it's about vibrators, so you're not the only one. i had one person mention howard sterns "private parts" though. nice to know that i interpreted the song correctly by myself though.
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See, I went to PETCO Park during the Padres' annual FanFest and randomly surveyed 25 of you fans about the team's future. Your answers, well… your answers should surprise you.
Question No. 1 went as follows: Do you have faith in this new ownership group?
It's a relevant query considering that the Padres' previous ownership seemed to care about winning the way John Wayne cared about ballet. When it came to the diamond, John Moores spent cubic-zirconium money, repeatedly failing to lock down stars who could have vaulted the Pads to the postseason.
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No worries, say you. Of the 25 people asked, 23 said yes, they do have faith.
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In five years, do you think Chase Headley will be here?
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Wilkinson to kick this one out of reach for Argentina now. Surely.
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The Jaspers are coming off a 67-54 win over Canisius. It was the second win in a row for Manhattan and the third in the last four games. The victory over the Golden Griffins pushed Manhattan to a mere 8-15 overall, but inched the team closer to .500 in conference play at 6-7. The Jaspers will be on the road for this one but return home for a pair of games after this.
Fairfield most recently defeated Saint Peter's 61-44 to earn its fifth consecutive win. The recent surge for the Stags' has pushed them to 15-10 overall, and 7-6 in league play, good for sixth in the standings. This will be the Stags' second of a five-game homestand.
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Against Canisius, Donovan Kates led the Jaspers with 14 points, while shooting 5-of-8 from the field and knocking down a pair of 3-pointers. Rhamel Brown and RaShawn Stores added 13 points each, while Michael Alvarado managed 10. Brown also had three blocks and two steals on the defensive end and is now just one block away from tying the school's all-time career record. The squad shot 54.8 percent from the floor and was 7-of-13 from beyond the arc.
Brown is the team's top scorer on the season with 12.0 ppg from 57.5 percent field goal shooting. He is the only Jasper player averaging in double figures, as Manhattan scores only 58.3 ppg, offsetting solid defensive play. Their scoring offense ranks them 335th in the nation, with just 10 other teams scoring less.
Maurice Barrow led the Stags over Saint Peter's with 15 points and five rebounds, while managing a pair of blocks and steals on defense. Derek Needham added 13 points and six assists despite shooting just 1-of-6 from 3-point range. Colin Nickerson scored 14 points and hit two 3-pointers without a miss. Needham is the only Fairfield player averaging in double-figure scoring on the year with 14.5 ppg and is also the only player to start all 25 games, leading in minutes per game with 33.1. On the defensive end is where the team has been most effective, holding opponents to 60.2 ppg and just 40.6 percent shooting from the floor.
When not playing on its homecourt, Manhattan has won just three games in 16 tries. Needham will look to keep the Stags rolling and take care of business over a Manhattan team that really misses its star player George Beamon, who was the MAAC's top scorer a year ago but played in just four games this year before re-injuring an ankle to end all hopes of this season's repeat. The Stags should earn an easy win in this matchup.
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Digidesign (AVID), Preview Travel (TVLY), Four11 (YHOO), Combinet (CSCO), and Redgate (AOL). He also founded or co-founded Wasatch Ventures (Salt Lake City), Zone Ventures (LA), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg),
Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC) and DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara). Draper has been recognized as a leader in entrepreneurship and venture capital through numerous
awards and honors, and he has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances. He was number seven on Forbes? Midas List and number 52 on the list of the most influential Harvard Alumni. He was also named AlwaysOn Magazine?s number one top
venture capital dealmaker for 2008. Tim is the course creator and Chairman of BizWorld, a 501c3 organization built around simulated teaching of entrepreneurship and business to children. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from
Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
From a lab at MIT to connecting 50,000 high school students live around the world, Norman Gaut's team at PictureTel were pioneers in connecting the world via real-world time, visual communications.
This author recommends that an entrepreneur include remote network access as part of a company's disaster recovery plan. Secure, remote access allows associates access to key data and applications on the network via an Internet connection.
William Sahlman is the Dimitri V. d'Arbeloff - Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The d'Arbeloff Chair was established in 1986 to support teaching and research on the
entrepreneurial process. The Chair honors the late Dimitri d'Arbeloff (HBS '55), whose entrepreneurial skills helped make Millipore Corporation a world leader in its industry. Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton
University, an M.B.A. from Harvard University, and a Ph.D. in Business Economics, also from Harvard. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development. Mr.
Sahlman was co-chair of the Entrepreneurship and Service Management Unit from 1999 to 2002. From 1991 to 1999, he was Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing Activities, and chairman of the board for Harvard Business School
Publishing Corporation. From 1990 to 1991, he was chairman of the Harvard University Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility. He is a member of the board of directors of several private companies.
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