As FEI blogger Edith Orenstein reports, SEC Chairman Christopher Cox’s picture is no longer on the agency’s web site listing “Current SEC Commissioners.”

Cox resigned yesterday, as reported by Bloomberg.

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An enticing article title, “The Secret Briefing Obama Needs on Day One,” appears on the Foreign Policy site.

Writer Gregory Treverton, the director of the Center for Global Risk and Security at the RAND Corporation, identifies three passages that ought to be in the first President’s Daily Brief (PDB) Obama receives as commander in chief. (He’s been receiving these memos, described as “CNN plus secrets,” since he won the election.) more

While researching an article on corporate sustainability for the Baylor Business Review, I came across a framework for crafting sustainability strategies that also serves as strong guidance for GRC strategy-setters.

Nicholas Eisenberger, managing principal of GreenOrder, described his firm’s “CRED” rubric:

Credibility: Why should anyone believe us?

Relevance: How can we leverage sustainability to create value?

Effective Messaging: How can we translate complex data into compelling messages?

Differentiation: Do we have unique goals and achievement? more

I received a pitch in the mail for Portfolio , Conde Naste’s “new magazine that exposes the best-kept secrets of the business world.” This is neat, I thought while looking at the flier: the marketing team selected a profile of a CFO published in the magazine to help convince me to subscribe.

Of course, the story is about an imprisoned CFO: Mark Swartz, formerly of Tyco where he worked with Dennis Kozlowski. more