Productivity & Trade Briefs
2018
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On Governance: Caremark Decision and Reputational Risk Through #MeToo Glasses
May 15 | Arthur Kohn, General Counsel - ERISA, Compensation & Benefits, Citi | Vanessa Richardson, Associate, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton | Comments (0)Public and private businesses today face many decisions that do not arise from, and have consequences far beyond, solely financial performance. Rather, these decisions are primarily driven by, and implicate, important social, cultural and political concerns. They include harassment, pay equity and other issues raised by the #MeToo movement.
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Financial Times Op-Ed: We May be Missing the Productivity Revival in the Global Economy
May 09 | Bart van Ark, Managing Director, The Productivity Institute, The University of Manchester | Comments (0)Policymakers returned home from last month’s spring meetings of the World Bank and IMF with a clear message. The current short-term outlook provides no guarantee for sustained economic growth in the medium-term. Not surprisingly the word “productivity” therefore appears many times in this edition of the IMF’s World Economic Outlook. Productivity growth will be one of the most effective ways to prevent the recent upswing in global growth from slowing down prematurely.
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Retail Apocalypse Postponed Not Cancelled
May 02 | Brian Schaitkin, Former Senior Economist, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Labor market data very clearly suggest that jobs in warehousing, delivery, and e-commerce, are unlikely to fully replace those lost in brick and mortar retail.
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On Governance: SEC Commissioner Robert Jackson and Perpetual Dual Class Shares
April 10 | Bernard Sharfman, Associate Fellow, R Street Institute | Comments (0)The elimination of perpetual dual class shares in IPOs is a solution without a real problem to solve. Of the 19 companies that utilized dual class shares in their IPOs in 2015 perhaps 50 percent used a perpetual structure.
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Tariffs or no tariffs, the pickup in global trade won’t last
April 09 | Ilaria Maselli, Former Senior Economist, The Conference Board | Ataman Ozyildirim, Former Senior Director, Economics, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Slow trade growth will be the dominant feature of the world economy in the coming decade, not because of the latest tariff dispute between the US and China, but because of three longer-term trends, argue Ilaria Maselli and Ataman Ozyildirim.
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On Governance: Setting the Stage for Sustainability
March 29 | Sophia Mendelsohn, Head of Sustainability, JetBlue Airways | Comments (0)Despite the rise of corporate sustainability, few CEOs discuss these initiatives with shareholders. But that is changing. Companies and shareholders are beginning to use the term Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) to represent the more focused area of the overlap between financials and environmental/social issues, resulting in risk mitigation.
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Planning for China-US trade tensions -- insights and resources from the Conference Board
March 27 | Ethan Cramer-Flood, Fomer Senior Fellow, China Center for Economics and Business, The Conference Board | Comments (0)The Conference Board China Center has been tracking US-China trade relations very carefully over the past 18 months, and we recommend that our members review several key pieces that we sent out previously which anticipated the events now transpiring and outlined a range of important planning assumptions for MNCs.
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On Governance: How Will Blockchain Technology Change Organizational Governance?
March 21 | Lewis Cohen, Partner, Hogan Lovells | Comments (2)Many of the corporate board monitoring costs can be drastically reduced, if not eliminated, by using blockchain to establish trust between directors and shareholders.
