CEO Agenda

Enterprise IT departments can have a bright future – if they embrace the empowered employee. When thinking about your IT department, words like “user friendly” and “responsive” are not the first that come to mind. More likely, it would be “unresponsive” or even “the department of no.” Sadly, if you...

While the world seems to be constantly floundering in financial, geopolitical, and economic turbulence, IMF's semi-annual World Economic Oultook report suggests that 7 big emerging markets are now bigger, in GDP terms, than the long established "Group of Seven (G7) leading industrialised nations," when measured at purchasing power parity (PPP)....

Your understanding of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS) is vital to managing the risk your business exposes itself to with every customer transaction that involves sensitive customer and financial data. Here are a few manual and systemic processes all businesses that accept credit cards should implement per...

Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer earned as much as a whopping US$24.9 million in 2013 compensation, landed her No. 3 on the list of 25 top-earning female executive in the United States - highest-paid women for this year, according to rankings released today by Fortune magazine. Taking the top spot this...

One of the top earning female executives in the United States is Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, according to a new list from Fortune magazine. Sandberg’s $16 million in 2013 compensation landed her No. 8 on the list of "25 Highest-Paid Female Powerhouse Executives: Top-Paid Women in America...

The 25 highest paid female powerhouse executives in America brought home smaller paychecks in 2013 compared to 2012, according to data provided to Fortune magazine by Equilar, an information database of the total executive compensation packages of public companies. Martine Rothblatt, United Therapeutics CEO, has now become the highest paid...

Well, this year 27 new billionaires have joined the Forbes 400 billionaires ranks of the richest americans list 2014, compared to 20 last year. Among the 27 wealthiest newcomer, Jan Koum ($7.6 billion), co-founder and CEO of WhatsApp, the 55-person mobile messaging platform based in Mountain View that Facebook bought...

Interestingly, a study shows that richest Americans are giving less of their income to charities, while poor and middle-income people are donating a larger share, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy’s analysis of tax-deduction data from the IRS. While the United States boasts the largest number of billionaires in the...

The vast majority of people lost their jobs in layoffs and cutbacks during the economic crisis, but the  world’s billionaire club keeps getting bigger, has welcomed 155 new members. The ultra-rich billionaire population grew by 7 percent, reaching an all-time high of 2,325 billionaires, most are self-made (83 percent) who...

So if it's your dream to become a billionaire, a burning question on your mind; what does the average ultra-wealthy billionaire look like in the year 2014? Well, latest Wealth-X and USB Billionaire Census Report, which gives an in-depth accounting of the world's richest people, attempt to answer that question....