Best Practices

Sophisticated risk modeling put banks ahead of the class in risk management until their practices sparked the financial crisis. Will their problems damage risk management's credibility or help companies learn how to implement it more wisely?

Edward McGarvey, Thomas Bartlett, John M. Stephens, Alex Miller, Thomas Herzog

New systems are often in the fast lane, increasingly robust in functionality and regularly adding enhancements, while many users are taking their time adopting new features.

Southern Company's CFO Paul Bowers keeps a weather eye on what's down the road.

Are taxpayers on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars for a credit crisis that may have been overblown? Who is the bailout really helping?

Under more pressure to reduce costs, increase productivity and avoid accounting errors, CFOs look to outsourcers, who now see middle-market companies as an engine for growth.

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

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.