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All Briefs
2019
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What The Conference Board’s C-Suite Challenge Means for Innovation Leaders
February 27 | John Metselaar, Economy, Strategy & Finance Center Leader, Europe, The Conference Board | Rita Shor, Co-leader of the Innovation and Digital Transformation Institute, Program Director for the Product & Service Development Council, and Co- Program Director for the Innovation Leadership Council | Comments (0)This year’s C-Suite Challenge painted a clear picture of how corporations’ most senior executives see the future, and what priorities and interventions are required to succeed in it. We have been looking at the insights through an Innovation & Productivity lens to help Innovation leaders best influence the priorities and efforts ahead.
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Corporate action on climate and waste: glass half-full or empty?
February 27 | Anuj Saush, ESG Center Leader, Europe, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Key trends related to the corporate disclosure of environmental and social practices—encompassing, among others, atmospheric emissions, water consumption, biodiversity policies, labor standards, human rights practices, and charitable and political contributions.
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DPR and CCPA: Managing your data privacy strategy in a new era of digital regulation
February 26 | Susan Stewart, Senior Publishing Writer | Comments (0)New privacy regulations are dramatically changing the atmosphere around business data and communications. What was once a mad rush to leverage consumer data is becoming a panicked effort to ensure security and maintain consumer trust.
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On Governance: The Biggest and Most Dangerous Risk CAEs and CROs Don’t Want to Report to Boards
February 25 | Tim Leech, Managing Director, Global Services, Risk Oversight Inc. | Comments (0)The author believes the biggest risk nobody seems to want to talk about is that a very large percentage of companies’ management personnel lack the necessary skills and/or motivation to competently self-assess and report on the true state of risk related to value creation and preservation.
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Explaining Harley Davidson’s Mid-Life Crisis
February 25 | Gad Levanon, PhD, Former Vice President, Labor Markets, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Spending on motorcycle sales are almost exclusively concentrated in middle-aged, white households. It turns out that in the next ten years, the number of consumers in this group is likely to shrink faster than any other population group in the US. We predict that these demographic shifts alone will lower spending on motorcycles by 3.7. Motor cycles are just one example of a product class where a core group of customers is aging out of a key demographic.
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CSR in India: Mandatory and So Much More
February 22 | Jeff Hoffman, Institute Leader, Corporate Citizenship & Philanthropy, ESG Center, The Conference Board | Comments (0)India is the first country in the world to make corporate social responsibility (CSR) mandatory, following an amendment to the Companies Act, which requires companies with a net worth above Rs 5 billion, revenues above Rs 10 billion, or net profits of Rs 50 million or more to spend 2 percent of net profits on CSR initiatives. The country has countless priorities that companies can look to for guidance on CSR initiatives.
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On Governance: How the Shift from Monocapitalism to Multicapitalism Creates Integral Value
February 20 | Keith Ambachtsheer, Founder, KPA Advisory Services | Bill Baue, Senior Director, Reporting 3.0 | Comments (1)Integrated reporting expands traditional thinking, with its predominant focus on financial capital (i.e., monocapitalist), by casting a wider net to assess how value is created across multiple capitals (i.e., multicapitalist).
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On Governance: Using Sustainability Metrics in Incentive Compensation Plans
February 15 | Arthur Kohn, General Counsel - ERISA, Compensation & Benefits, Citi | Comments (0)Recent developments concerning corporate sustainability suggest that compensation committees of public company boards of directors, as well as human resources executives, should consider the use of metrics developed to measure sustainability in incentive compensation plans.