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All Briefs
2019
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On Governance: What Does the Latest SEC Guidance Mean for Proxy Advisors, Companies?
August 26 | Gary Larkin, Former Research Associate, Corporate Leadership, The Conference Board | Comments (0)How far will the SEC go in addressing the influence of proxy advisors now that it has issued interpretative guidance?
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New WPI Research Reveals Why Feminist Giving is Better
August 21 | Kiersten Marek, Founder, Philanthropy Women | Comments (0)Are women better philanthropists than men? new report from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) finds that women’s foundations and funds donors—the vast majority of whom are women—are doing more with less, getting more impact with their philanthropy, and are less likely to be doing it for religious or tax shelter reasons.
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Interview with Leslie Quinton—BRP
August 20 | Lise Michaud, Founder, IC Kollectif | Comments (0)Are internal and external communications the same thing? In this interview, Leslie Quinton, Vice President of Global Corporate Communications, and Events, at Canadian recreational products company BRP, argues that there are almost always reasons to target your communications differently according to the audience.
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Can Organized Philanthropy Learn To Learn?
August 14 | Timothy J. McClimon, President, American Express Foundation | Comments (0)Is organized philanthropy really in a position to influence democracy, or does it need to get its own house in order first? A new book by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) posits that for foundations to make lasting progress towards the goals they share with their nonprofit partners and communities, they need to be learning all the time, discovering what is happening in their communities and how change is affecting the ability of nonprofits to do their work and reach their own goals.
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Online Community Health Check
August 14 | Vanessa DiMauro, CEO, Leader Networks | Comments (0)Is your business's online community optimized? Online communities can yield substantial business results for organizations that do them well. But, like all dynamic systems, they need a check up, so you can identify and implement the right changes to keep your community on track.
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Currency Wars: What a CEO Should Prepare For
August 13 | Bart van Ark, Managing Director, The Productivity Institute, The University of Manchester | Erik Lundh, Senior Economist, Global, The Conference Board | Comments (0)In the coming months, global executives could find themselves trying to navigate an international currency market wherein both the USD and the RMB are competing in a ‘how low can you go’ devaluation game. This new battleground, if it fully manifests, could be more detrimental and problematic for global businesses than anything we’ve seen from the tariffs to date.
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Key Takeaways from a Decade of Millennial Research
August 07 | Jean Case, Chairman, National Geographic Society | Comments (0)Are millennials misunderstood? Over a decade of research from the Case Foundation has found that the characteristics with which millennials were previously branded—a quiet, inactive, insular group that did not engage with social causes and were often considered self-centered, lazy, and too concerned with their devices to think about anyone else—are false. Instead, millennials are thinking, acting, and living their lives like no other generation before them.
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Want to Better Retain Staff? Try Recognition.
August 05 | Bob Nelson, Ph.D., President, Nelson Motivation Inc. | Comments (0)Managers need to be skilled at the basics of effective recognition and to use that skill in a timely, sincere and specific manner on a daily basis as their employees have performed well. Managers have to lead the charge in proactively helping to make your workplace a culture of recognition in which the behavior is part of the common practices of the organization.
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Helping Employees Plan for Long-Term Care
July 31 | Anna M. Rappaport | Comments (0)Research indicates that there are huge gaps in long-term care planning. The need for help, and possibly a lot of help, later in life, has a huge impact on multiple generations of many American families. Society of Actuaries’ research studies show that while many people are aware of the risk, few do advance planning for managing it.