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Human Capital Briefs
2019
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Headquartering Talent
March 25 | Brian Schaitkin, Former Senior Economist, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Cities that are among the most well educated tend to attract a disproportionate share of headquarters jobs. For example, Washington, New York, San Francisco, and Minneapolis all have a far higher percentage of college educated workers than the national average. An exceptionally well-educated workforce is a stronger draw for firms making headquarters location decisions than one more typical of the population.
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LeaderXXchange Study: How’s Women Leadership Faring Worldwide?
March 21 | ESG Center | Comments (0)When it comes to gender diversity on public company boards, there is good news and bad news, according to LeaderXXchange. Among the world’s largest public companies gender leadership scores are climbing and most companies have formal diversity policies. However, there is a lot more that must be done.
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Developing The Next Generation Of Leaders
March 12 | Rebecca L. Ray, PhD, Former Executive Vice President, Human Capital, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Each day in the U.S., about 10,000 baby boomers retire. On the upside, this exodus opens considerable opportunities for young, rising stars to climb the corporate ladder. At the same time, their rapid advancement highlights the need for company leadership to often re-examine their strategies for developing future leaders.
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Teleworking continues to rapidly expand
March 11 | Gad Levanon, PhD, Former Vice President, Labor Markets, The Conference Board | Frank Steemers, Former Senior Economist, The Conference Board | Comments (0)Employers are facing a prolonged tight labor market for the first time in an era when advanced remote working technologies are available. To address talent shortages, companies can use teleworking to broaden the pool of potential workers. Teleworking is especially playing an important role in addressing talent shortages in white-collar occupations, but less so among blue-collar and low-paid service occupations.
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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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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.
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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.