Corporate Executive Board Presents "Crisis or Opportunity: Leading Through a Down Economy"

Business Wire,  May 7, 2008  

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Dr. Alan Greenspan anchors Corporate Executive Board's first-ever cross-disciplinary conference in Chicago May 12-13

ARLINGTON, Va. -- Corporate Executive Board (NASDAQ: EXBD) will present "Crisis or Opportunity: Leading Through a Down Economy," a conference that features keynote speakers and executive panelists May 12-13 in Chicago.

WHO: The Corporate Executive Board Company is a leading provider of best practices research and analysis focusing on corporate strategy, operations, and general management issues. The Corporate Executive Board provides its integrated set of services currently to more than 4,700 of the world's largest and most prestigious corporations, including over 80 percent of the Fortune 500. These services include best practices research studies, executive education seminars, management implementation toolkits, customized research briefs, and Web-based access to a library of over 300,000 corporate best practices. For more information, visit our Web site at www.executiveboard.com.

WHAT: Corporate Executive Board is presenting the first in an annual conference series addressing critical and timely issues. The "Crisis or Opportunity" conference will host senior executives engaged in a strategic dialogue on the unique challenges that affect today's business climate and that ultimately inflect performance coming out of the economic downturn. The conference will feature focused sessions and roundtables covering the best practices and strategies essential to win in a downturn presented by key executives from some of the world's leading organizations including Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Caterpillar, Lafarge, Johnson Controls, Schneider Electric and others.

Day One - Includes a number of breakout sessions and keynote addresses by Dr. James Schrager, clinical professor of Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and Peter Sheahan, author of Generation Y: Thriving (and Surviving) with Generation Y at Work.

Day Two - In addition to a host of breakout sessions, day two opens with a special keynote address: A Conversation with Dr. Alan Greenspan with Dr. Alan Greenspan, chairman, Federal Reserve (1987-2006) and moderated by Corporate Executive Board's CEO Tom Monahan. The day concludes with a plenary session with the Corporate Executive Board's Chief Research Officer Derek van Bever, author of Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing-Yours Doesn't Have To.

WHY: Tom Monahan, chairman and chief executive officer of CEB, put it this way. "Having relationships with more than 80 percent of the Fortune 500 and more than 15,000 C-level executives has positioned our company to consistently bring unique insight to the challenges faced by key executives and their teams in HR, Finance, IT and many other functional areas. Increasingly, we have realized that there is real value in helping these executives diagnose and close gaps between key functions within their organizations. This is all the more important in the current challenging economic environment."

WHEN: The conference takes place on Monday and Tuesday, May 12-13 at McCormick Place in Chicago. For more information about the conference, visit our Web site at www.conferences.executiveboard.com.

MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES: The following Keynote Addresses are open to the media; Why Strategy Matters in Times of Change by Dr. James Schrager; Why Understanding the "Millennial" Generation is Critical to Growth by Peter Sheahan; and Stall Points: Most Companies Stop Growing- Yours Doesn't Have To by Derek van Bever. Dr. Greenspan's keynote session is not open to the media. Breakout sessions and panel discussions are not open to the media, however, several executives will be available for pre or post interview opportunities. To schedule an interview, please contact Anne Richardson, arichardson@metzger.com or Lisa Metzger at lmetzger@metzger.com.

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