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After additional crisis meetings, the National Industrial Conference Board was officially founded May 5, 1916, at the Hotel Gramatan in [[Bronxville, New York]].<ref name="conference-board.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.conference-board.org/pdf_free/TCB_HistoryTimeLine.pdf|title=Conference Board timeline|access-date=2012-09-10|archive-date=2022-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222194416/https://www.conference-board.org/pdf_free/TCB_HistoryTimeLine.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Although many of the organizations’ founders—including former [[AT&T]] president [[Frederick Perry Fish|Frederick P. Fish]] and [[General Electric]] executive [[Magnus W. Alexander]], its first president—had supported the [[open shop|open-shop movement]], by 1916 they regarded national unions such as the [[American Federation of Labor]] as permanent fixtures of the American economy, and urged negotiation and concord.<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://findingaids.hagley.org/repositories/3/resources/858 |title=Collection: National Industrial Conference Board (NICB) records |author=<!--Not stated--> |date= |website=[[Hagley Museum and Library]] Archives |publisher= |access-date=2022-09-29}}</ref>
When the United States entered [[World War I]] in 1917, the [[National War Labor Board (1918–1919)|National War Labor Board]] formed by President [[Woodrow Wilson]] asked the NICB to formulate plans that would keep war industries running and strife-free. Its recommendations—based on cooperation between representatives of employers, employees, and government—were adopted in full.<ref name="conference-board.org"/> During and after the war, the NICB conducted pioneering research into [[workers' compensation]] laws and the [[eight-hour day|eight-hour workday]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Board |first=National Industrial Conference |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RJ4qAAAAYAAJ |title=The Eight-hour Day Defined |date=1918 |publisher=The Board |language=en}}</ref> and established the U.S. [[Cost of Living Index]]. Though often mistrusted in its early years as an “employers union” funding studies against the labor movement,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Laue |first=J. Charles |date=1926-10-31 |title=LABOR AND CAPITAL TO BATTLE OVER UNIONISM; Campaign of American Federation of Labor to Combat Company Unions and To Organize Open Shop Industries Is Fought by Anti-Union Employers |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1926/10/31/archives/labor-and-capital-to-battle-over-unionism-campaign-of-american.html |access-date=2023-02-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the non-profit NICB was also seen “as a spokesman for the so-called progressive wing of the business community [and] produced hundreds of research reports on economic and social issues facing the United States.”<ref name="auto"/>
The organization today remains funded by the contributions of members, often [[Fortune 500]] companies. By the 1930s, however, it had already lost most of its character as an industry lobby. [[Virgil Jordan]], a writer and economist who replaced Alexander as president on the latter's death in 1932, established a Bureau of Economic Audit and Control to offer members and the public an independent source of studies on unemployment, [[pension]]s, healthcare, and related issues in the midst of the [[Great Depression]], when many questioned the credibility of the government's economic statistics.<ref name="conference-board.org"/> Unions soon joined the NICB alongside corporations for access to its research, conferences, and executive network.
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Notable examples include:
* C-Suite Outlook – A recurring survey of the most pressing challenges and responses facing CEOs and other top executives across industries and regions.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Gryta|first=Thomas|date=2022-01-13|title=Inflation Surge Is on Many Executives' List of 2022 Worries|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-surge-is-on-many-executives-list-of-2022-worries-11642069801|access-date=2022-02-23|issn=0099-9660|archive-date=2022-02-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223202401/https://www.wsj.com/articles/inflation-surge-is-on-many-executives-list-of-2022-worries-11642069801|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Annual [[benchmarking]] reports and data dashboards that reveal emerging trends in areas including CEO succession,<ref>{{Cite news|last=McGregor|first=Jena|title=Analysis {{!}} Fewer companies are forcing CEOs to retire when they hit their golden years|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/27/fewer-companies-are-forcing-ceos-retire-when-they-hit-their-golden-years/|access-date=2020-08-24|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201002172330/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/09/27/fewer-companies-are-forcing-ceos-retire-when-they-hit-their-golden-years/|url-status=live}}</ref> executive compensation,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Murray|first=Alan|title=After coronavirus, expect a 'new' Delta|url=https://fortune.com/2020/05/01/delta-ceo-pay-travel-ceo-daily/|access-date=2020-08-24|website=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]|language=en|archive-date=2022-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929222219/https://fortune.com/2020/05/01/delta-ceo-pay-travel-ceo-daily/|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Board of directors|corporate board]] practices,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fuhrmans|first=Vanessa|date=2019-04-24|title=What's Keeping More Women From Board Seats: Little Turnover|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-keeping-more-women-from-board-seats-little-turnover-11556105400|access-date=2020-08-24|issn=0099-9660|archive-date=2020-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810142835/https://www.wsj.com/articles/whats-keeping-more-women-from-board-seats-little-turnover-11556105400|url-status=live}}</ref> and shareholder voting.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Paine|first1=Lynn S.|last2=Srinivasan|first2=Suraj|date=2019-10-14|title=A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance|work=Harvard Business Review|url=https://hbr.org/2019/10/a-guide-to-the-big-ideas-and-debates-in-corporate-governance|access-date=2020-08-24|issn=0017-8012|archive-date=2020-09-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902163731/https://hbr.org/2019/10/a-guide-to-the-big-ideas-and-debates-in-corporate-governance|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Annual survey on US salary increase budgets across industries and seniority.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Davidson|first=Paul|title=Hey millennials, look out below! Gen Zers may already be catching up in the salary race|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2019/11/11/u-s-wage-growth-gen-zers-closing-pay-gap-millennials/2531949001/|access-date=2020-09-11|website=[[USA
* Annual [[job satisfaction]] survey of U.S. workers.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Weber|first=Lauren|date=2019-08-29|title=Younger Workers Report Biggest Gains in Happiness With Pay|language=en-US|work=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/younger-workers-report-biggest-gains-in-happiness-with-pay-11567071000|access-date=2020-08-24|issn=0099-9660|archive-date=2020-08-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200810142541/https://www.wsj.com/articles/younger-workers-report-biggest-gains-in-happiness-with-pay-11567071000|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Annual survey on corporate communications practices and trends.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Corporate Communications Practices: 2019 Edition|url=https://conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=8675|access-date=2020-09-11|website=conference-board.org|archive-date=2022-09-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220929222221/https://www.conference-board.org/publications/publicationdetail.cfm?publicationid=8675|url-status=live}}</ref>
* The economic impact of the child care industry.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Tan|first=Anjelica|date=2020-05-15|title=Working parents could face lack of child care as the economy restarts|url=https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/497959-working-parents-could-face-lack-of-child-care-as-the-economy-restarts|access-date=2020-08-25|website=
* The management and leadership preferences of millennials.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Are Millennial Leaders Different?|url=https://fortune.com/2017/01/10/are-millennial-leaders-different/|access-date=2020-08-25|website=[[Fortune (magazine)|Fortune]]|language=en|archive-date=2020-10-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028094304/https://fortune.com/2017/01/10/are-millennial-leaders-different/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* Policy solutions for making capitalism more sustainable.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Election Center 2020|url=https://www.ced.org/2020-solutions-briefs|access-date=2020-08-25|website=Committee for Economic Development of The Conference Board|archive-date=2020-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200704102406/http://www.ced.org/2020-solutions-briefs|url-status=live}}</ref>
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