C-Suite

Chief financial officers should be directly involved in their companies' sustainability programs as investors, customers and other stakeholders see a strong link between sustainability and financial performance, according to a new report from Ernst & Young LLP.

While 60 percent of corporate executives say their companies have a crisis plan in place, only 29 percent are very confident their organization would respond effectively during a crisis, and 56 percent say they are somewhat confident, according to a new survey by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittmans crisis management team...

Sometimes I wonder if CFOs and HR Directors talk with each other. Occasionally I run into a CFO who is implementing a tax strategy using employee benefits, and he or she is clueless as to whether the benefits are actually valued by the employee.

More than half of privately held companies offered raises to their chief financial officers, and those CFOs make 45 percent less than CFOs of public companies, according to a new CFO compensation survey report by MyCFOnetwork.

Many U.S. public corporations experienced relatively little immediate impact from the first say-on-pay proxy season; however, most companies are either planning or considering changes to their executive pay-setting process and overall preparations for 2012’s proxy season, according to a new survey by Towers Watson.

Third-party lawsuits and identity theft are both large concerns for CEOs, finds a recent survey conducted by Chief Executive Group.

Employers increasingly value human resources and its role in recruiting, developing and rewarding talent, resulting in higher salaries and more incentives, according to a report by Culpepper and Associates Inc.

Most employees try to keep their personal and professional lives separate. But when it comes to legal matters, separation turns out to be much easier said than done.