Economy, Strategy & Finance Data Reactions
2018
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What do online job ads tell us about Amazon’s choice for a second headquarters?
April 17 | Jeanne Shu, Director, Labor Markets, The Conference Board | Gad Levanon, PhD, Former Vice President, Labor Markets, The Conference Board | Comments (1)Observing labor demand using online job ad postings for a specific company like Amazon is possible with Help Wanted OnLine® data. Most importantly, HWOL allows us to analyze monthly trends in labor demand both in real-time and historically down to the most granular occupational level for areas throughout the United States. Analyzing trends in online job ads with the granularity of Help Wanted OnLine® broadens our understanding of the overall U.S. labor market.
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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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3 Ways Talent Executives Can Accelerate Innovation in 2018
April 09 | Ataman Ozyildirim, Former Senior Director, Economics, The Conference Board | Victor Assad, CEO, Victor Assad Strategic Human Resources Consulting | Comments (0)Managing culture, embracing metrics and pursuing evolving technologies are among the top priorities talent leaders should focus on in the New Year.
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Long Expansions Do Not Alone Halt Fast Job Creation
April 02 | Brian Schaitkin, Former Senior Economist, The Conference Board | Comments (0)At the outset of 2017, many economists were concerned by the possibility that tighter labor markets would act to slow employment growth. Perhaps labor shortages will trigger the next recession as firms will cut back production in reaction to rising costs. Right now though the LEI is still signaling good economic times ahead. A long period of frustration with talent shortages and rising labor costs would likely be required for labor alone to be the next black swan.
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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.