The Conference Board
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The Conference Board is a non-profit global business organization composed 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 Conference Board also publishes a magazine of ideas and opinion, called Across the Board from 1976 to 2006 and The Conference Board Review henceforth.
The organization was founded in 1916 as the National Industrial Conference Board by Magnus W. Alexander, Loyall Osborne (Westinghouse), Frederick P. Fish, and Frank A. Vanderlip.
The Conference Board is a not-for-profit organization and holds 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States.
- 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.
Gail Fosler is the current Chief Economist of the Conference Board.
