Centennial Celebration- Ringing the Bell at the NYSE

The Conference Board was born on May 5, 1916 at the Hotel Gramatan in Bronxville, NY, in a meeting that included some of the most prominent business leaders in the United States. Against a backdrop of growing economic inequality and roiling labor unrest, they founded an organization that would offer a forward-looking, non-partisan, and evidence-based response to the challenges of maturing capitalism. Today, in an era of comparable turmoil, The Conference Board counts nearly 1,000 of the world’s leading companies and institutions as members. Offices from Beijing to Brussels support these members, and the public at large, with a portfolio of objective research, cutting-edge events, and trusted peer-learning networks. The Conference Board was featured at the Nasdaq closing bell on June 16 and the New York Stock Exchange closing bell on July 12.