All Briefs
2018
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Greatly Delayed Pickup in Recruitment: A Brief Account of How American Business Woke Up to GDPR Through the Lens of Online Job Ads
August 06 | Brian Schaitkin, Former Senior Economist, The Conference Board | Agron Nicaj, Associate Economist, The Conference Board | Comments (0)For US firms, upgrading data protection compliance procedures will not just be a concern related to European operations. California has passed a measure, The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which is partially modelled after GDPR. An examination of The Conference Board Help Wanted OnLine® (HWOL) Data Series illustrates the mix of IT, legal, managerial, and marketing talent that companies will need to meet these new compliance challenges without sacrificing their digital ambitions.
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Q&A with Myron Steele: Former Delaware Supreme Court Chief Justice’s Perspective on the Job of a Corporate Director
August 01 | Chief Justice Myron Steele, Partner, Potter Anderson Corroon LLP | Comments (0)This Q&A with Myron Steele discusses the job of the corporate director from his perspective as former chief justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware. He touches on topics like the influence of Delaware law and shareholder engagement on the role of the corporate director.
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The Risks Companies Face When Their Political Spending and Core Values Conflict
July 31 | Bruce F. Freed, President and Founder, Center for Political Accountability | Karl J. Sandstrom, Of Counsel, Perkins Coie LLP | Comments (0)A new report by the Center for Political Accountability highlights the heightened risks – reputational and business – that companies face from political spending in today’s polarized political environment. Entitled “Collision Course: The Risks Companies Face When Their Political Spending and Their Core Values Conflict, and How to Address Them,” this report is the first examination of conflicted spending and the challenges that it can pose for companies from the public and stakeholders.
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On Personalization and Targeting
July 31 | Susan Getgood, Vice President - Product Innovation, SHE Media | Comments (0)There is no question that the digital media industry has been disrupted by the Global Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR). It’s been at the top of advertising news for weeks, and while the volume of articles may decline, the impact of the law has just begun.
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Q&A with Charles Elson: Weinberg Center Chair’s Perspective on the Job of a Corporate Director
July 30 | Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. Chair in Corporate Governance, University of Delaware's Lerner College of Business & Economics | Comments (0)This Q&A with Charles Elson discusses the job of the corporate director from his perspective as The University of Delaware Center for Corporate Governance's Chair. He touches on topics like the influence of Delaware law and management engagement on the role of corporate directors.
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On Governance: The Evolving Limits of Director Oversight
July 25 | Pamela Tikellis, Founding Partner, Chimicles & Tikellis LLP (Retired), ESG Center Fellow | Comments (0)Director oversight is changing as new crises like data breaches and toxic workplace problems emerge. Shareholders are demanding focused risk management from their board of directors. As a result, boards are now looking for ways to improve meaningful oversight.
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Could the Facebook Scandal Slow Down Digital Healthcare?
July 24 | Fard Johnmar, Senior Fellow, SNCR | Comments (0)If global health is being reshaped by technologies such as wearables, artificial intelligence and blockchain, then data—and lots of it—is fueling this transformation. But patient fears about privacy and misuse of data, potentially influenced by the Facebook data breach, threatens to slow the development and uptake of digital health innovations.
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Getting Syrian Students Back to School through Tech-Enabled Learning
July 24 | Michele Malejki, Global Head of Strategic Programs for Sustainability and Social Innovation, HP, Inc | Comments (0)The numbers are staggering: More than 65 million people around the world have been forcibly displaced. Only a small number of refugees—less than 1 percent of 17.5 million in 2016—will ever be resettled. In Syria alone, more than 5 million people have fled their war-torn country since 2011, 1 million of whom have settled in Lebanon. Nearly a quarter of those refugees are children not enrolled in school. Behind each of these numbers is a life that’s been put on pause.