CFOs grappling with financial issues brought on by the current recession are also being tested in the area of leadership capabilities -- ensuring that employees maintain performance standards in a time of uncertainty.

The old saw "it's the economy, stupid" is a battle cry among shareholders that may become the national anthem of the 2008 proxy season.

A myth just got busted. You know, the one about how far women have come in Corporate America. The reality is that diversity in the executive suite and the boardroom isn't all it's cracked up to be.

We're nowhere close to comprehensive immigration reform legislation but changes are coming sooner rather than later to the practices that employers use to verify the legal status of workers. And no one knows yet exactly what those changes will look like.

If you believe strongly that businesses have a responsibility to be good citizens, you’ve got a lot of company.

Even critics of lavish compensation for chief executives often don’t subscribe to a pay for performance approach with the top job, but irate shareholders and regulators’ disdain for overly generous paychecks for CEOs under whose watch a company suffers catastrophic financial failure is growing. And they’re not going to take it anymore.

The on-going debate about the pros and cons of market-value accounting rules got louder last week after American International Group (AIG) reported a Q4 loss of $5.29 billion on the heels of an $11.12 billion pre-tax write-down on the value of mortgage-related investments.

The public is getting nervous about reports on investments in U.S. companies by sovereign-wealth funds--pools of overseas government-controlled money.