Research Working Groups

Benefits of Research Working Group Participation

The Conference Board's Research Working Groups provide a confidential, hands-on environment for companies to work with expert researchers to forge practical solutions for a specific, defined set of business challenges.
Members gain exposure to a select group of peer executives from global companies who are similarly situated in needing to tackle the same challenges.
Collectively, Research Working Group members work with subject matter experts to find actionable solutions through proven methodologies, practical tools, and templates.

Citizenship & Sustainability

Corporate Governance and Sustainability: Integrating Corporate and Investor Perspectives
The focus is to better understand and recommend to companies a framework for institutionalizing and mainstreaming their approaches both to designing sustainability programs and to communicating with institutional investors on the nature of these programs.

Corporate Response to Humanitarian Disasters
Beyond Money: How can business draw upon core capabilities to help improve disaster preparedness and humanitarian response?

Stakeholder Engagement on the Global Stage/Special Focus: China
This working group will provide companies with the opportunity to meet with corporate peers and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and stakeholder leaders to build relationships and learn from one another.

Compensation/Benefits

Building a Culture of Wellness
This working group will study and report on how wellness programs affect the organization, and how building a "culture of health" could help deliver both benefit management and business results that employers seek.

The Wellness Advantage: Refining and Evaluating a Key Strategic Asset
This research working group will explore how your company can take its current wellness program to the next level and ensure that your wellness efforts are both efficient and effective.

Diversity and Inclusion

Bridging Generational Divides in Knowledge Transfer
The group will also explore the specific topics of what is truly unique about Millennials, reverse mentoring, collaborative learning methods, and the cultural aspects of cross-generational knowledge transfer.

Faith in Today’s Corporation: Challenging Realities
This working group explores faith-based societal trends, assesses their impact, and looks at ways to make the workplace "faith friendly".

Latino Market Collaborative
This working group will bring together a unique network of executives from leading organizations to take part in a series of consultative meetings — both in-person and online — to explore the challenges of this new and emerging market.

Leveraging High-Potential Employees
This research working group will explore the implications of developing high-potential employees.

Managing an Aging Workforce in the Nonprofit Sector
This working group will address challenges related to aging and a multigenerational workforce that may have a tremendous impact on the stability, growth, and potential of the nonprofit sector in coming years.

Mature Worker Engagement
This working group looks at effectively engaging and tapping the talent of mature workers.

Mature Workforce Challenges
Over 30 percent of the highly skilled workers in Europe will enter the age of retirement within the next 10 years, organizations must consider institutional changes now to retain the talents, energies and knowledge of workers poised to retire.

Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer
This working goup will address knowledge-retention challenges that organizations face due to shifting demographics and the search for new leadership talent.

Economic Environment

Enterprise Risk Management

Assessing Offshoring Risks: Thinking Through the Financial and Operational Issues
The Conference Board's new Working Group on Managing Offshoring Risks will provide leaders from organizations at all stages of offshoring operations with a much needed forum to discuss important concerns.

Managing Reputation Risk:
Creating solutions to evaluate and manage your company’s reputation risk
As a member of this Research Working Group, you will develop a framework to assess reputation risk across an organization's operations, functions, practices and policies.

Ethics and Compliance

Ethics & Compliance Criteria in Government Enforcement Decisions
This research working group will create a searchable database of cases from countries where E & C program effectiveness had an impact on the decision to bring charges or on sentence severity.

Working at the Intersection of Human Resources, Ethics, and Compliance
The objective of this Research Working Group is to engage participants in a frank and confidential exchange of views on how human resources, ethics, and compliance programs can best collaborate.

Governance

Hedge Fund Activism
This research working group on Hedge Funds provides corporate executives, institutional investors and intermediaries the opportunity to develop practical solutions to common issues.

HR and Talent Management

Corporate Center Design: Maximizing Shareholder Value
This Research Working Group will help its members answer the question: "How can I help my CEO understand, measure, and communicate the value contribution of the corporate center?"

Defining New Performance HR Targets: Evidence-Based HR
Members will identify the operational and financial key performance indicators that are most relevant to the causal relationship between human capital strategies and business performance.

Engaging Your Global Workforce
This Working Group on Engaging a Global Workforce is designed to help you and your organization better understand what is common across the globe, what is distinctive to particular geographies or contexts, and what does and does not work in these contexts

Evidence-Based Human Resources
The Next Generation of Human Capital Metrics and Analytics
The Conference Board Research Working Group on Evidence-Based Human Resources will explore the empirical links between human capital and business performance.

Global Leadership Development: Maximizing Value in Challenging Times Research Working Group
This working group will assess the insight of international assignees on their experiences on global leadership and how the effectiveness of global leadership can be dispersed to others throughout the organization.

Growing Talent for Succession Research Working Group
This Research Working Group will address the high-leverage strategy, process, tools, and mindset necessary for growing talent for succession.

Human Capital Strategy and Measurement
The Conference Board® 2005-2006 Working Group on HC Strategy and Measurement will focus on establishing how HC metrics can pilot strategic initiatives and proving the value of linking HR initiatives to business strategy.

Human Capital Strategy and Measurement II
The Conference Board® 2005-2006 Working Group on HC Strategy and Measurement will focus on establishing how HC metrics can pilot strategic initiatives and proving the value of linking HR initiatives to business strategy.

Implementing Strategic Workforce Planning Research Working Group
To help your company's transition and further your understanding of the complexities of Strategic Workforce Planning, this working group will explore best practices through discussions, presentations, and member-guided research.

Leveraging High-Potential Employees
This research working group will explore the implications of developing high-potential employees.

Managing a Distant Workforce
Explore the challenges of managing across geography, time and national culture.

Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer
This working goup will address knowledge-retention challenges that organizations face due to shifting demographics and the search for new leadership talent.

Strategic Workforce Planning in Global Organizations Research Working Group
This working group will focus on the challenges of planning, managing, and shaping a global workforce.

Leadership Development

Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer
This working goup will address knowledge-retention challenges that organizations face due to shifting demographics and the search for new leadership talent.

Marketing and Communications

Measuring and Managing Return on Marketing Investment
This Research Working Group will address quantifying marketing results that are specifically tied to financial objectives.

Operations and Business Processes

Exploring Transformational Offshoring Research Working Group
The Conference Board® Research Working Group on Exploring Transformational Offshoring is teaming up with the Duke University CIBER, ORN, the most recognized academic-based research project on offshoring.

Multigenerational Knowledge Transfer
This working goup will address knowledge-retention challenges that organizations face due to shifting demographics and the search for new leadership talent.

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