Women leading family businesses is five times higher than the late '90s.

What does a company do when it's suddenly left without a CFO?

While consumer confidence may be higher, business executives are less bullish

Citigroup and other companies face shareholder disapproval of high executive pay. Will the boards of directors heed the concerns?

Fifty-five percent of the bank's shareholders voted against pay packages for top execs, including $15 million in compensation for CEO Vikram Pandit. The vote is advisory only, though, and thus doesn't actually force a change in Citi's pay practices.

A recent poll out by CareerBuilder shows what kind of suits, beverages and even cars that top executives around the country prefer.

In a federal court in New York tomorrow, jury selection begins for the high-profile insider-trading trial of Raj Rajaratnam. He is a hedge-fund b…