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Lords of the Brass Ring

The time may be right for financial chiefs to ascend to the CEO post.

March 1, 2010

Your phone may be about to ring, and you may want to answer it. Executive turnover, which usually proceeds at a brisk pace, ground to a near-halt last year as many CFOs and CEOs chose to stay put rather than risk moving to a new and possibly worse-off company. Boards also hesitated to replace top management in the midst of the crisis. Read more...

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