On the back of stronger revenue and operating income, both finance chiefs and CEOs saw their personal incomes leap by about 10% last year.
The job is more interesting and presents more weighty challenges than many would expect, says Linda Sullivan, finance chief at American Water Works.
With the right brand-value metrics and framework, managements can allocate marketing resources to improve both short- and long-term value creation.
Europe's largest bank soothed investors by announcing a share buyback of up to $2.5 billion in the second half of this year.
Why do gross margin, operating profit margin, and EBITDA margin so poorly measure technology company performance?
"Banks need to change the way they operate to ensure that they can build and maintain capital buffers without taking excessive risk," says an IMF report.
Companies are focusing on asset utilization to drive better share-price performance.
Big data promises to revolutionize human-capital management, but it's the stories behind the data that will endure. We just have to find them.
Between 2008 and 2010, companies with more diverse top teams were also top financial performers. That’s probably no coincidence.
Why the 80-year-old DuPont model still has fans.
