Additional Resources

• US Dept Labor Top Executives
  Top executives are among the highest paid workers; however, long hours, considerable travel, and intense pressure to succeed are common. The formal education and experience of top executives varies as widely as the nature of their responsibilities. Keen competition is expected because the prestige and high pay attract a large number of qualified applicants.
• webpages
  The following websites are provided for additional resource material. ExecuCite.com disclaims any endorsement of the websites, nor does it warrant the accuracy of the information.

• Economist.com

• 6figurejobs.com
  This site provides information about posting executive resumes and job searching
• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
  The AICPA is the premier national professional association in the United States. Our employees are a diverse, unified team who: Are committed to member service and the public interest, providing the highest quality products, services and support possible. Listen and respond to the needs and expectations of members, prospective members, the public and one another. Serve members with excellence. Act with the highest ethical behavior, performing with integrity and professionalism. Are committed to learning and using new or existing tools and technology to its maximum potential. Are responsive to others in a respectful and courteous manner. Embrace change and approach challenges with "can do" enthusiasm and creative thinking. Constantly seek opportunities to attract and retain members, offer additional products or services, reduce costs, and improve productivity. Are empowered to problem-solve and make decisions with the expectation of support by the AICPA. The AICPA is committed to providing its employees with: Timely training to acquire the knowledge and skills needed for current and future jobs. Opportunity for professional and personal growth through job enlargement, rotation and education. A team environment that fosters participation, diversity, differences of opinion and a commitment to excellence. A system that recognizes and rewards outstanding performance, ongoing contributions and innovations of individuals and teams within the AICPA. Empowerment to problem-solve and make accountable and responsible decisions. A process that respects and utilizes contributions from staff throughout the Institute. Opportunities for promotion from within, when qualified and possible. Above all, a professional environment that values open and candid communications based on honesty, trust, respect, healthy competition and conflict resolution.
• California Public Employees' Retirement System
  The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) provides retirement and health benefit services to more than 1.4 million members and nearly 2,500 employers. Our membership consists of active, inactive and retired members from the State, school districts and local public agencies.
• Careerjournal.com
  CareerJournal.com is the Internet's premier career site for executives, managers and professionals. Content comes from the powerful editorial resources of The Wall Street Journal and CareerJournal's editorial team. You'll find daily updates and thousands of archived articles detailing the news and trends that are critical to your job search and career advancement. We offer a searchable database of job postings from top companies: Positions featured include senior and general management, sales, marketing, finance, technology and a range of related fields.
• CFO.com
  CFO.com is a comprehensive online resource center for senior finance executives. Our mission at CFO.com is a simple one: to help our readers do their jobs better. CFO.com offers daily stories geared specifically for finance executives. Coverage includes original reporting on new accounting standards, recent capital-raisings, risk management, and professional career development. The site also features proprietary benchmarking tools and calculators, plus a full set of related directories, special reports, and buyer's guides. In addition, CFO.com provides complete online editions of CFO magazine, as well as selected coverage from CFO Europe and CFO Asia. CFO.com was launched in October 2000. A digital source of timely financial information, CFO.com extends the tradition of journalistic excellence set by CFO Publishing and its parent company, The Economist Group. Contact CFO.com 111 West 57th Street New York, NY 10019 Tel: 212-698-9727 Fax: 212-664-1023
• Chiefexecutive.net
  Chief Executive is the only magazine written strictly for CEOs and their peers. As the leading source of intelligence for and about CEOs, it provides ideas, strategies and tactics for top executive leaders seeking to build more effective organizations. Chief Executive conveys the full range of the CEO experience: the corporate challenges, as well as the personal pressures and satisfactions that come with the most demanding job in business. The readers of Chief Executive include the world's most influential leaders - the CEOs of major corporations around the globe. They are not only shaping new economies around the world, but new societies as well. Chief Executive offers clear-eyed reporting of their successes - and their failures - in ways that illuminate, educate, entertain, and inspire other CEOs. Chief Executive is published ten times a year and delivered to a controlled circulation of 42,0001 CEOs, Chairmen, Vice Chairmen, Presidents, COOs and other top executives. Total readership exceeds 170,000
• Corporate Executive Board
  The Corporate Executive Board is the premier membership organization for senior executives of leading institutions worldwide to discover innovative strategies for addressing their most pressing challenges. Our dedicated membership programs focus upon increasing the effectiveness of leaders within member organizations. To that end, we provide a suite of services?best practices research, executive education and decision support tools?designed to accelerate the implementation of new strategies and to help members avoid reinventing the wheel as they address problems shared with their peers.
• execunet.com
  ExecuNet is the premier networking and membership organization for the $100,000+ executive. We have what you need to advance your career, whether you're actively looking or just monitoring the executive job market. We specialize in the job search and career advancement needs of executives as well as the needs of recruiters or companies seeking senior-level/executive talent.
• Executivesontheweb.com
  executivesontheweb.com is recognised as the No1 UK and European recruitment website offering senior management and executive jobs in multi-languages across all industry sectors in the UK, Europe and South Africa. We have established a reputation for delivering both cost effective and unique online recruitment strategies to the UK, European and South African recruiters. Launched in 1999 we have established preferred partnerships with major organisations in all industry sectors. executivesonthweb.com was the first UK executive recruitment website that was sponsored by the Institute of Directors and we are currently in the recommended directory of suppliers to the Institute. Our partnership with the CBI confirms our status as the leading supplier for both senior management and executive jobs across all organisations.
• Federation of Eurpean Employers
  The Federation of European Employers (FedEE) is the leading organisation for international employers operating across Europe. It was founded in 1989 with funding from the European Commission, and operates today on an independent basis with corporate members located throughout the world.
• Financial Accountanting Standards Board
  The mission of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) is to establish and improve standards of financial accounting and reporting for the guidance and education of the public, including issuers, auditors and users of financial information. Accounting standards are essential to the efficient functioning of the economy because decisions about the allocation of resources rely heavily on credible, concise, transparent and understandable financial information. Financial information about the operations and financial position of individual entities also is used by the public in making various other kinds of decisions.
• Financial Executives International
  FEI: a world-class name, powerful advocacy If you know the in's and out's of corporate finance, you know the name FEI. You recognize FEI as the professional association of choice for senior-level corporate financial executives, and the leading organization dedicated to advancing ethical, responsible financial management. Representing 15,000 individuals, FEI has been the voice of corporate finance for over 70 years, and never more relevant than now. FEI speaks vigorously on behalf of the profession to legislative and regulatory bodies in Washington, D.C., and other corridors of power. FEI provides a corporate perspective to Congress and policymaking bodies such as the SEC, the FASB and the IASB. FEI monitors a range of public policy issues affecting financial executives.
• Financial Executives Networking Group
  The FENG is a very senior level "circle of friends". Members have typically been Chief Financial Officers, Controllers, and Vice Presidents of Finance, Treasury, Tax, or Mergers & Acquisition, as well as other financial disciplines. The basic purpose of our organization is to create the opportunity for you as a senior financial professional to network, share job leads and friendship with your peers in the financial community.
• Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Website
  This site is informative and very useful. It focuses on management, leadership and corporate governance topics.
• http://www.ironthenet.com/static/global/links.html
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• Institutional Shareholder Services
  Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. (ISS) is the world's leading provider of proxy voting and corporate governance services. ISS serves more than 950 institutional and corporate clients worldwide with its core business ? analyzing proxies and issuing informed research and objective vote recommendations for more than 10,000 U.S. and 12,000 non-U.S. shareholder meetings each year. ISS's core businesses include global proxy services and database and research tools for institutional investors. With more than 15 years of experience and a respected team of domestic and international research analysts, ISS is considered to be the world?s authority on proxy issues and corporate governance. Our research and proxy voting policies are designed on the premise that good corporate governance ultimately results in increased shareholder value.
• International Accounting Standards Board
  The International Accounting Standards Board is an independent, privately-funded accounting standard setter based in London, UK. Board Members come from nine countries and have a variety of functional backgrounds. The Board is committed to developing, in the public interest, a single set of high quality, understandable and enforceable global accounting standards that require transparent and comparable information in general purpose financial statements. In addition, the Board cooperates with national accounting standard setters to achieve convergence in accounting standards around the world.
• Mystockoptions.com
  Stock options, restricted stock, and ESPPs can be complex and confusing. By educating you, we empower you to make smarter financial decisions. We are the best and most comprehensive personal-finance educational Web site on equity compensation, devoted to the millions of people in the United States and around the world who participate in stock option, employee stock purchase, and restricted stock plans. The site was created, and is managed, by experts in financial planning, tax, securities law, stock plan administration, and training.
• National Association of Corporate Directors
  Founded in 1977, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) is the premier educational,publishing and consulting organization in board leadership and the only membership association for boards, directors, director-candidates and board advisors. The National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) is to be the premiere organization for boards and directors of U.S. business corporations, as an authoritative voice and vital forum on matters of policy and practice. In fulfillment of this vision, NACD will: promote high professional standards for board and director conduct, practice, and performance provide a forum for regular interaction among directors offer opportunities for directors to develop their effectiveness as board members provide guidance to boards in realizing their full potential communicate with the media, educators, investors, corporations, business leaders, and directors themselves, where needed to improve understanding of board and director issues assert the policy interests of boards and directors in selected legal and governmental arenas conduct research and inform boards and directors about important issues they face as boards and board members and cooperate with international organizations on matters of corporate governance. NACD promotes high professional board standards, creates forums for peer interaction, enhances director effectiveness, asserts the policy interests of directors, conducts research, and educates boards and directors concerning traditional and cutting-edge issues.
• National Association of Security Dealers
  Under federal law, virtually every securities firm doing business with the US public is a member of NASD. Roughly 5,200 brokerage firms, over 92,000 branch offices and more than 653,000 registered securities representatives come under our jurisdiction. NASD registers member firms, writes rules to govern their behavior, examines them for compliance and disciplines those that fail to comply. We provide education to industry professionals and investors. We also operate the largest securities dispute resolution forum ? with arbitration and mediation programs ? in the world
• National Center for Employee Ownership
  The NCEO is a nonprofit organization, established in 1981, whose mission is to provide the most objective and reliable information possible on employee ownership at the most affordable price possible. Our members include companies, professional practitioners, unions, government officials, academics, and other interested individuals. Although we are a membership-based organization, our outreach is not limited to members. Many people purchase our publications and attend our events without becoming NCEO members--they simply pay higher prices.
• New York Stock Exchange
  To add value to the capital-raising and asset- management process by providing the highest- quality and most cost-effective self-regulated marketplace for the trading of financial instruments, promote confidence in and understanding of that process, and serve as a forum for discussion of relevant national and international policy issues.
• SEC Digest: Enforcement Actions
  SEC Digest: Enforcement Actions
• Securities & Exchange Commission
  The primary mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is to protect investors and maintain the integrity of the securities markets. As more and more first-time investors turn to the markets to help secure their futures, pay for homes, and send children to college, these goals are more compelling than ever.
• Stock-Options.com
  Welcome to Stock-Options.com, the best Internet resource for employees, officers, and directors of public corporations for calculating, inventorying, and analyzing employee stock-options.
• The Conference Board
  The Conference Board creates and disseminates knowledge about management and the marketplace to help businesses strengthen their performance and better serve society. Working as a global, independent membership organization in the public interest, we conduct research, convene conferences, make forecasts, assess trends, publish information and analysis, and bring executives together to learn from one another. The Conference Board is a not-for-profit organization and holds 501 (c) (3) tax-exempt status in the United States.
• The Corporate Library
  The Corporate Library was founded in 1999 by Nell Minow and Robert A.G. Monks, long-time partners in Lens Investment Management, co-authors of Power and Accountability (1991, full text available online) and the textbook, Corporate Governance (originally published in 1994, now in its third edition). The Corporate Library is an independent investment research firm providing corporate governance data, analysis & risk assessment tools.
• The Federal Judiciary Link to U.S. Courts
  This link provides a map and detailed links to each individual circuit and district courts. Information on reported cases is also available through each court.
• TIAA-CREF
  Much of the information you'll find throughout our Web Center must be preceded or accompanied by a current prospectus. Please read the appropriate prospectus carefully before you invest or send money. Prospectuses are linked below and throughout the Web Center for on-screen access.
• WorldAtWork
  WorldatWork is the world's leading not-for-profit professional association dedicated to knowledge leadership in compensation, benefits and total rewards. Founded in 1955, WorldatWork focuses on human resources disciplines associated with attracting, retaining and motivating employees. In addition to serving as the membership association of the profession, WorldatWork provides education programs, the monthly workspan?magazine, online information resources, surveys, publications, conferences, research and networking opportunities. An affiliate organization, WorldatWork Society of Certified Professionals, administers and issues the certification designations; Certified Compensation Professional (CCP?), Certified Benefits Professional (CBPTM) and Global Remuneration Professional (GRP?).