How many of you have received that "no raises this year" message from the executives at your company? Isn't it comforting to know we're all in this together. Oh, wait, maybe not CEOs, after all.

Park-Ohio Holdings Corporation, founded in Cleveland in 1961, employs nearly 4,000 people in 14 countries, has healthy cash flow and revenue of 1.2 billion. They also have a treasure everyone ought to have: a leader with a conscience who still understands how to run a business.

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) today announced that its board of directors has elected Mike Duke, 58, to succeed Lee Scott as president and chief executive officer, effective February 1, 2009. Duke was also elected to the company’s board of directors, effective immediately.

Something is wrong with the U.S Automotive Industry. It seems that either the carmakers need to change the way they make cars in USA or the car companies may need to change the CEOs or the management, as the CEO's flew to Washington D.C. to seek 25 billion bailout in private jets.

In the fight for the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill in Congress that would give workers the free choice to form unions, we've seen some crazy hyperbole from greedy CEOs and their front groups who oppose free choice for workers.

No surprise here at all. On Monday, Yahoo! announced it was conducting a search for a new CEO, with embattled current CEO Jerry Yang stepping down. Yang will return to his position as Chief Yahoo! and Board Member, the titles he held prior to taking over in 2007 after former CEO Terry Semel departed.

An increasing number of CEOs are exiting their positions prematurely, according to a study by Yan Zhang at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management. Of the 204 company leaders Zhang studied from 1993 to 1998, 55 (27 percent) left their job within three years.

When a corporation has a public relations crisis, the news media splash photos of the company’s CEO around the world. According to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research the shape of the CEO’s face evokes judgments about the person and the situation.

Just days after Russell Reed announced his departure from the post of Chief Investment Officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, Fred Buenrostro, the CEO, followed suit.

On Wednesday Greg Lang was appointed president and CEO of PMC-Sierra, a semiconductor company which develops and sells devices into the communications, storage, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces.

SAP AG, the largest European software enterprise and the third largest in the world, has promoted Leo Apotheker to co-CEO position that is likely to lead him to the CEO post after Henning Kagermann’s retirement.

Number two U.S. automaker Ford Motor Co on Friday named Mei-wei Cheng, chairman and chief executive of its China operations, as a group vice president effective April 1.