The Conference Board Global Economic Outlook 2015 and CEO Challenge® 2015: Implications for General Counsel

Armed with data from both powerhouse research reports, The Conference Board experts present the latest in the key business issues series addressing CEOs’ biggest challenges. This report is in particular geared toward general counsel, and provides the imperatives for organizational agility to deal with slower growth and the business challenges it entails. The legal function will have its work cut out for it in 2015 as the global regulatory environment intensifies, cybersecurity concerns abound, low investment necessitates public-private partnerships, and disastrous events reported almost daily remind us of how critical contingency planning can be. In a down market, embedding trust-building behavior, ethical accountability, and transparency into the company’s core can create competitive advantage.