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10 Best States for Business 2013: Slideshow Here’s a look at the best states in which to do business in 2013 and what CEOs had to say about them.	ChiefExecutive.net	Best & Worst States	May 6 2013
10 Worst States for Business 2013: Slideshow Yet again, California takes the title of the worst state in which to do business. Here are the other states that didn’t perform well in this year’s survey.	ChiefExecutive.net	Best & Worst States	May 6 2013
Five Questions Board Members Need to Ask About Cloud Computing Board members are hearing more and more from their management teams about the noteworthy business benefits of cloud computing, such as: Cloud strategies make the enterprise more efficient and agile. Cloud computing allows delivered services to be more innovative and more competitive. Cloud computing reduces overall operating costs. But how confident can boards be that management plans will achieve these benefits? Is there a way to know that, even if the benefits are real, increased operational risk will not outweigh those benefits? Fortunately, by understanding what cloud is and what it is not and by asking a few key questions of management teams, boards can gain that confidence—in management plans and strategic goals, as well as in the decisions made in response to those plans.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	May 2 2013
How Smart Manufacturing Changes Everything Automation of processes that increase yield and raise productivity, is the core of what people think of when they speak of smart manufacturing. Smart is not limited to process change but opens the door to the use of new materials. Rather than stocking inventory 3-D printing capability allows custom built job-lots of one. Smart is certainly transforming manufacturing but it also transforms companies themselves. Witness Valin Corp. a San Jose supplier to the semiconductor that nearly perished in the wake of the dotcom bust of 2001.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	April 25 2013
Stock Market’s Rise May Be Producing Crop of Very Cautious CEOs, Study of Stock Options Suggests With the stock market surge over the past several years, executive stock options awarded near the bottom of the market are worth small – or not so small – fortunes. How does this affect the way CEOs run their companies? A hefty increase in options’ paper value may lead to sharp decrease in risk-taking	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	April 25 2013
Six Myths About Venture Capital Offer Dose of Reality to Startups Venture capital is the exception, not the norm, as a funding source for startups. More VC-backed new companies fail than succeed, and since 1999 VC funds have barely broken even. Those are just some of the myth-busting facts revealed by Diane Mulcahy, director of private equity at the Kauffman Foundation and a former VC herself, in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review that focuses on entrepreneurship.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	April 25 2013
Most CEOs Rise Early; Few Complain About Work/Life Balance The Guardian newspaper’s Tim Dowling, Laura Barnett and Patrick Kingsley spoke to seven CEOs including AOL, Vodafone, Virgin Money, and Ericsson about their work/life habits and learned than most CEOs start their day by rising as early as 5:00 Am in order to sort through their commitments. The reporters sought to learn how seven successful people manage their affairs and become high effective.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter , Leadership & Strategy	April 18 2013
5 Critical Errors That Triggered Ron Johnson’s Removal at JC Penney 17 months after he recruited former Apple retail executive Ron Johnson to run J.C. Penney, hedge fund manager and activist investor William Ackman led the revolt that ousted his own pick. Other Apple veterans who followed Johnson are headed for the exits as well. Could any of this have been prevented? What were the major mistakes that led to the ouster? Time magazine’s Brian Tuttle points to five big mistakes that led to Johnson’s ouster.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter , Leadership & Strategy	April 18 2013
Smart Manufacturing vs. Robots: Why America’s Manufacturers May Have a Bigger Image Problem than They Thought When asked to describe the impact on the economy of modernizing factories with advanced technology and automation, nearly two-thirds of Americans told pollsters that it either made no difference or actually hurt the economy, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal Economics Bureau Chief, Timothy Aeppel. The percentage who thought it was bad—37 percent of the total—rose with lower household income and among those with lower education. But even among the well-educated and better-off, there was a surprising degree of rage against the machines. 31 percent of those with incomes over $100,000 said modernizing factories hurt the economy, while a quarter of college graduates felt that way.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	April 9 2013
Why H-P is a Poster Child for Dysfunctional Governance and Silicon Valley Incestuousness Ray Lane will step down as chairman of Hewlett-Packard after a rocky two-and-a-half-year tenure. The surprise move is in addition to the surprise resignations of two other board directors, John Hammergren, CEO of McKesson, and G. Kennedy Thompson, former CEO of Wachovia, who nearly lost their seats at the March annual meeting.	ChiefExecutive.net	CEO Briefing Newsletter	April 9 2013

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