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Economy, Strategy & Finance Data Reactions
2019
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On Governance: How the SEC can Help Mitigate the ‘Proactive’ Agency Costs of Agency Capitalism
March 08 | Bernard Sharfman, Associate Fellow, R Street Institute | Comments (1)The proactive agency costs generated by mutual fund advisers that hold large concentrations of delegated voting power can be partially mitigated by the SEC.
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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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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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The Top Five Things I Learned at the 2018 Lisboa Web Summit
February 13 | John Metselaar, Economy, Strategy & Finance Center Leader, Europe, The Conference Board | Comments (0)"Save the web: technology should serve humanity, not undermine its core values and institutions" is just one of John Metselaar's takeaways from this year's Lisbon Web Summit. As more than half the world's population becomes digitally connected, industry, governments, citizens and academia need to work together to keep the "digital peace."
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Partnering for Disaster Preparedness in Chile
February 12 | Lars Battle, Senior Editorial Coordinator, PYXERA Global | Comments (0)The term “natural disaster” is a misnomer. Natural ecosystems often require disturbances such as fires and floods to remain healthy. They have an inherent resilience to the occasional battering. Crises created by destructive natural events might be more aptly referred to as “social disasters,” because of the toll of life and economic damage left in their wake. Framing such events as social disasters places them in a different light, shifting the burden on all sectors of society to proactively ma
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Do You Know Your Business Transformation Story?
February 12 | Jeff Pundyk, Senior Fellow, The Conference Board Marketing and Communications Center | Comments (0)Organizations are at a critical juncture as they try to balance long-term vision with short-term performance. The key to making this balance work is delivering thoughtful, consistent, and clear communications to employees, customers, and partners.
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Internal Communication and the Licence to Operate
February 07 | Lise Michaud, Founder, IC Kollectif | Comments (0)internal communication professionals need to do a better job of demonstrating their value to senior leadership. To be considered trusted advisers and counselors by executives and senior leaders, internal communication professionals should, among other things, assess and measure their value, bring unique insights, and better understand the financial metrics used by business leaders.
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The Conference Board Launches Expanded Benchmarking Project on Corporate Citizenship
February 07 | Alex Parkinson, Former Communications Institute Co-Leader, The Conference Board | Comments (0)The Conference Board has launched an expanded initiative to track and benchmark societal investments, and their resulting impact, extending the organization’s 75 years of leadership in corporate citizenship research.