Posts by Tonello, Matteo
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Fact of the Week: Sustainability issues are a priority for CEOs, yet few heads of sustainability report directly to CEOs (08.25.16 )
By Matteo Tonello, Managing Director, Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board Global CEOs now rank “sustainability” among their top five business challenges. However, despite sustainability issues moving to the center of CEO priorities, few heads of sustainability report directly to the CEO. A survey by The Conference Board of sustainability executives shows only 16 percent […]
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Fact of the Week: When it comes to leadership in sustainability, CEOs may be focusing on the wrong things (08.17.16 )
By Matteo Tonello, Managing Director, Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board When it comes to leadership in sustainability, CEOs may be focusing on the wrong things In a recent survey by The Conference Board, sustainability executives almost unanimously agree that board engagement on sustainability issues is one of the strongest indicators of leadership in corporate […]
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Fact of the Week: Board engagement on sustainability issues is a strong indicator of leadership in sustainability, yet these issues remain absent from most company board discussions (08.10.16 )
By Matteo Tonello, Managing Director, Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board Board engagement on sustainability issues is a strong indicator of leadership in sustainability, yet these issues remain absent from most company board discussions Results from a survey by The Conference Board show executives point to board engagement on sustainability issues as a strong indicator […]
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Fact of the Week: Just over one-third of companies assign responsibility for sustainability oversight to the board (08.03.16 )
By Matteo Tonello, Managing Director, Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board Just over one-third of companies assign responsibility for sustainability oversight to the board. A survey by The Conference Board shows executives point to board engagement on sustainability issues as a strong indicator of leadership in corporate sustainability. Yet a separate survey of 307 SEC-registered […]
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Fact of the Week: There Is No Lack of Professional Standards for Corporate Communicators, yet They Are Seldom Adopted (07.27.16 )
By Matteo Tonello, Managing Director, Corporate Leadership at The Conference Board Despite the proliferation of professional standards for the industry in the past year, none of the main sets of behavioral guidelines appears to have emerged as predominant. Among the standards most frequently adopted by participants in The Conference Board’s Corporate Communications Practices survey, the […]