The Conference Board is the world's preeminent business membership and research organization, best known for the Consumer Confidence Index and the index of 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 uncertain 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.

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 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. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a goal to make a profit. ... Business organizations is an area of law that covers the broad array of rules governing the formation and operation of different kinds of entities by which individuals can organize to do business. ... The Conference Board of Canada is a not-for-profit Canadian organization dedicated to researching and analyzing economic trends, as well as organizational performance and public policy issues. ...

The organization was founded in 1916 by Magnus W. Alexander, Loyall Osborne (Westinghouse), Frederick P. Fish, and Frank A. Vanderlip. 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

• 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. 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Leonard E. Read (1898 - 1983) was the founder of the Foundation for Economic Education, which was the first modern libertarian think tank in the United States. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... Seymour Melman (born December 30, 1917 in New York City; died December 16, 2004 in Manhattan of an apparent aneurism) was a professor emeritus of Columbia Universitys Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science[1] who wrote extensively for fifty years on economic conversion, the ordered transition from... Gail D. Fosler is Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of The Conference Board (research and business membership organization). ...

External links

• The Conference Board of the United States website
• The Conference Board of Canada website