December-January 2009

With job loss fears high, workers could be tempted to take sensitive corporate data to use in negotiating a job with a future employer.

The name Brink's has become synonomous with secure. CFO Michael Cazer says that applies to corporate risk management as well, providing the company with a balance sheet many would envy.

As more companies make risk management part of daily good governance, expect the federal government to get into the act.

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CFOs Tom Schoewe of Wal-Mart, Jeffrey Burchill of FM Global and Jeffrey Henderson of Cardinal Health set their courses for the future.

Lewis W.K. Booth, David L. Herzog, Jon R. Moller...

Using data tagging technology for risk management could improve transparency and comparability by standardizing the language.

As growing populations and ravenous markets consume more water, food, trees, metals and minerals, companies find reducing their footprints can lead to discovering new market opportunities in sustainability.

The President-elect, Congress and business are poised for reform, but how fast can the change-resistant health care sector move?

Economists Stephen Stanley of RBS Greenwich Capital Markets, M. Cary Leahey of Decision Economics and Keith Wade of Schroders peer into the future.

Now that debt violations have dire consequences for liquidity, treasurers are seeking better tools to alert them to problems.