Governance Meeting

Corporate Governance

The Conference Board governance programs helps companies improve their processes, inspire public confidence, and ensure they are complying with regulations. Through the Directors' Institute, the program provides corporate directors with a nonacademic, impartial forum for open dialogue about the real-world business challenges they face.

Relevant
Since 1993, the Corporate Governance program at The Conference Board has helped corporations develop strong core principals by improving their governance processes through a variety of programs including director training and global ethics education. Become a part of this program.

Distinguished
Our Governance Center provides unique opportunities by bringing together senior executives from leading world-class organizations and institutional investors in a non-adversarial setting to debate and develop innovative governance practices.

Respected
In 2002, The Conference Board Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise was established to address the causes of declining public and investor trust in companies, their leaders, and America's capital markets. It is considered by many to be a major force in reforming governance and pay practices.

The Conference Board Governance Center

Join a distinguished group of senior executives from leading world-class companies and influential institutional investors in a non-adversarial setting. The Governance Center provides:

Valuable Networking - Access a global organization of major companies and institutional investors who share common interests and issues.
Relevant Knowledge - Share perspectives with prominent senior executives from global companies in meetings, workshops and symposia.
High Visibility - Be a key part of domestic and international events and research projects through sponsorship.
Team Approach - Executives within a company can participate together, encouraging teamwork and leveraging the individual experience.
Cutting Edge Research - Benefit from The Governance Center's research on trends and best practices, both in the United States and internationally.

The Conference Board Directors' Institute

The premier provider of governance education for directors, the Directors' Institute offers your choice of round table forums or customized in-house forums. The Directors' Institute brings together current and former directors, chairman, and CEO's to share their experiences and wisdom with your company's directors in a completely non-academic, hands-on format.

Only foremost directors and practitioners—not academics—serve as faculty, sharing their vast experience.
Topics covers practical "real-world" and "red-flag" issues.
Limited session size and restricted attendance to sitting directors to provide high-level peer dialogue.
One intensive program provides directors with a time-efficient method of getting up to speed with the latest best practices.
The Conference Board Directors' Institute programs are accredited by ISS as a "preferred Boardroom Education Program."

Events/Forums

Governance Center Meetings
Directors' Roundtable Forum November 13-14, 2008 New York, NY	Corporate Governance & Compliance Crash Course October 16-17, 2008 New York, NY
Corporate Governance and Sustainability Working Group November 6-7, 2008 New York, NY	Corporate/Investor Summit on Goverance in Highly Volatile Times December 9, 2008 Wilmington, DE

Councils

Global Council on Business Conduct
Builds a global perspective in discussion of the on concerns of companies from diverse regions such as articulation of core principles, developing effective compliance systems, and balancing stakeholder interests.

European Council on Corporate Governance
Discusses the dramatic changes that are affecting boards of directors and how they might best respond to these changes in order to drive business forward and meet the needs of their investors and stakeholders.

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Research Working Group

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.

Publications

Executive Action Reports
Political Money: The Need for Director Oversight Until recently, companies' political expenditures were not fully disclosed and were rarely subject to oversight by boards. The lack of attention that these expenditures normally receive has exposed companies to serious legal and reputation risks.		The Allure of Private Equity and Its Impact on Performance Pay in Publicly Held Companies Despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary, privateequity packages may not help public sector companies win the war for talent.
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Research Reports
Hedge Fund Activism: Findings and Recommendations for Corporations and Investors This report contains findings and recommendations of the Research Working Group on Hedge Fund Activism instituted by The Conference Board in May 2007.		The 2008 Institutional Investment Report This report tracks the influence that major categories of institutional investors have on U.S. equity markets and on the ownership structure of U.S. corporations.
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