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The Conference Board is the world's preeminent business membership and research organization. Best known for the Consumer Confidence Index, and the leading indicators. For 90 years, The Conference Board has equipped the world's leading corporations with practical knowledge through issues-oriented research and senior executive peer-to-peer meetings.
In an uncertian world of intense competition, increasing public accountability, and global risks, The Conference Board provides its members — top executives and industry leaders from the most respected corporations in the United States and around the world — with vital business intelligence and forward-looking best practices. At the same time, The Conference Board promotes confidence in the free enterprise system by shaping the values critical to ethical business performance.
Companies and individuals benefit by using the knowledge we create and our unrivaled global network to improve business performance.
The Conference Board is a not-for-profit organization and holds 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States.
The Conference Board is a non-profit global business organization comprised of business executives that hosts conferences, conducts business management research, and produces a number of economic statistics, including the Consumer Confidence Index, CEO Confidence index, the help wanted index, and indexes of leading indicators, coincident indicators, and lagging indicators. A similar but separate organization exists in Canada, Conference Board of Canada.
The organization was founded in 1916 by Magnus W. Alexander, Loyall Osborne (Westinghouse), Frederick P. Fish, and Frank A. Vanderlip.
- Virgil Jordan was a past president (in, at least, 1945).
- Leonard Read was vice president for a brief time in 1945. He very quickly rejected the NICB's principle of presenting two sides to every argument, and shortly afterwards resigned his position.
- Seymour Melman served on the board.
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