As more companies develop an appetite for high-growth markets, portfolio management best practices are quickly emerging.

Outsourcing and collaborative initiatives can jeopardize one of a company's most critical assets: its intellectual capital.

Steve Player interviews Pat Ottensmeyer, chief financial officer of Kansas City Southern Railroad.

Facing massive brain drain from
the retirement of a third of its workforce, Tennessee Valley
Authority generated a knowledge-retention network to conserve
its intellectual capital.

A growing number of companies in search of inexpensive capital are leveraging various types of assets.

Improvements in purchasing systems transcend cost savings, and companies are seeing the benefits extend to every corner of the business.

Leasing -- rather than buying -- equipment may conserve capital.

To avoid an unpleasant surprise, keep assets aligned with liabilities in your frozen defined-benefit plan.

Cash, stock or a combo? The choices sound simple, but making the right decision isn't always so easy.