Human Capital: Page 47
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Not Working at Work: The $130 Billion Drain
How would you feel if you knew that 61% of your employees were spending at least an hour per week on nonwork activities? Maybe you wouldn’t feel too badly. Everybody’s got to have a little time to attend to personal business, right?Just don’t delude yourself into thinking that the lost productivi...
By David McCann • Dec. 4, 2012 -
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The HR and Sustainability Nexus: An Untapped Asset?
The idea of “sustainability” or the “triple bottom line” (profit, planet, people) is increasingly a vital goal in financial and corporate social responsibility. What is less obvious is that sustainability and human resources may go together to contribute to high organizational performance.In a 20...
By John Boudreau • Dec. 3, 2012 -
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The 130-Day Year
Imagine you’re the CFO of a publicly traded, $1 billion company that makes all of its money in about 130 days of the year. Even within that short span, in no two months do financial results resemble each other. And you won’t be able to tell whether your $100 million annual capital budget has been...
By David McCann • Nov. 30, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 30
Wade Davis has been promoted to the top finance spot at Viacom. He replaces Jimmy Barge, who will leave the firm after a transition period. Davis had been executive vice president, strategy and corporate development.Wireless distribution firm Brightstar Corp. has named Thomas Seifert to head fina...
By Joan Urdang • Nov. 30, 2012 -
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How to Keep Unneeded Lawyers Out of Workers’ Comp
It’s no secret that workers’ compensation cases involving attorneys are generally more expensive. In fact, workers’ compensation, started a century ago to remove workers and their employers from the tort system, remains highly litigious.It does not have to be this way, however. By uncovering the ...
By Richard A. Victor • Nov. 27, 2012 -
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What Holds CFOs Back from Operational Roles?
As a longtime partner with two CFO services providers, first Tatum and now the recently launched SCA Group, Larry Litowitz has had a bird’s-eye view of many different companies, all with different issues requiring different solutions. But there is one approach that yields great value, time and ti...
By David McCann • Nov. 27, 2012 -
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ISS Targets Hedging, Pledging of Company Stock
One way for an executive or director to realize or lock in value from company stock that he or she owns is to simply sell the stock to a third party. But that, of course, will trigger income tax and dilute economic ownership and voting rights in the company. Besides, it may not be possible (becau...
By Andrew Liazos • Nov. 26, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 21
J.P. Morgan Chase has named Marianne Lake to succeed Douglas Braunstein as its CFO. Lake currently is CFO for the bank’s consumer and community banking unit. Braunstein will become vice chairman of the company when Lake takes the CFO role in 2013.Aegon, the Dutch owner of U.S. insurer Transameric...
By Bonnie Evans • Nov. 21, 2012 -
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A CFO and His Company Grow Up Together
Dylan Smith has been a CFO for seven years. He’s now 27.Given his age, it almost goes without saying that the company he works for is in the technology field. Actually, he co-founded it.In the mold of Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Severin, Smith and his friend Aaron Levie launched Box, a...
By David McCann • Nov. 16, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 16
Retailer Best Buy Co. has appointed Sharon McCollam CFO and chief administrative officer, effective December 10. Earlier this year, she retired from Williams-Sonoma Inc., where she was CFO, chief operating officer, and a director of the company. As CFO, she replaces James Muehlbauer, who said in ...
By Joan Urdang • Nov. 16, 2012 -
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Guiding Principles
Whether in business, investing, or just ordinary life, it’s a good idea to reexamine your assumptions and guiding principles from time to time. You may find that some are no longer valid, and in fact are doing more harm than good. It’s in this spirit that we offer the two feature stories, or “Gre...
By Edward Teach • Nov. 15, 2012 -
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Up with People
Glance through “Human-Capital Strategies in a Slow Recovery,” a recent study conducted by CFO Research in collaboration with Paychex, and it’s easy to assume that the employer-employee relationship is as tenuous — and transactional — as ever. Consider, for example, the phrase one finance executiv...
By Matt Surka and Josh Hyatt • Nov. 15, 2012 -
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Brand Power
To businesses that want to expand internationally, the value of a well-known brand cannot be overestimated. Among global apparel companies, VF Corp. has the advantage of owning not just one or two famous brands but a portfolio of them, ranging from Wrangler and Lee to The North Face, Nautica, Van...
By Edward Teach • Nov. 15, 2012 -
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Finance Execs Win Big Pay by Switching Jobs
Do you want to make more money? Get a new job.For finance executives, that opportunity may be almost as bountiful these days as in 2006 and 2007, the high-flying days before the financial crisis.Salveson Stetson Group, a boutique executive-recruiting firm, gathered compensation data on 175 senior...
By David McCann • Nov. 15, 2012 -
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M&A: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Irv Rothman isn’t a particular fan of growth through acquisition. He’d rather build a company organically, like Apple has mostly done.“People buy companies because they’re in a hurry,” says the chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard Financial Services, a $3 billion, wholly owned subsidiary th...
By David McCann • Nov. 14, 2012 -
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Don’t Let HR Tell You Who to Hire
Finance executives may sense that the more they’re involved in hiring and employee-development decisions — as opposed to giving human resources a lot of say — the better those decisions turn out to be. But new research points to a possibility that executives may not be fully aware of just how imp...
By David McCann • Nov. 12, 2012 -
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Why CFOs Need to Think Vertically
If you’ve been around for a while (like me), you may remember the tagline Sun Microsystems used in the mid-to-late ’90s to market its thin client, diskless computing devices: “The Network is the Computer.” In many ways Sun did, in fact, provide the computers that powered the early rise of the Int...
By Timothy Chou • Nov. 12, 2012 -
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Finance and the Factory Floor
It may not be unusual for CFOs of manufacturing companies to have a strong focus on operations. After all, shop-floor efficiencies can play a big role in financial success. But just how strong should that focus be?At Thyssenkrupp Aerospace North America, CFO Doug Penner says he spends at least ha...
By David McCann • Nov. 8, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 9
AmeriQuest Business Services has promoted Mark Joyce to the top finance spot. He has been at AmeriQuest since 2006 when the leasing division of AmeriQuest Transportation Services merged with NationaLease, where he was CFO.Dennis Secor has resigned as CFO of retailer Guess Inc., effective December...
By Joan Urdang • Nov. 8, 2012 -
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Obama Win Gets Thumbs-up From U.K. Finance Pros
LONDON — Relief. That’s the one-word answer that you most commonly encounter when asking finance professionals in the United Kingdom for their reaction to Barack Obama’s reelection.In part that feeling comes from a sense of continuity, in part from alarm about the rhetoric deployed by challenger ...
By Andrew Sawers • Nov. 7, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 2
Joseph Consolino will become finance chief of insurance holding firm American Financial Group, effective after it files its annual report on Form 10-K for this year. He will take over from Keith Jensen, who is retiring in March. Previously, Consolino was president and CFO of Validus Holdings Ltd....
By Joan Urdang • Nov. 2, 2012 -
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One CFO’s Mantra: Operations Come First
MIAMI — Ask mostly any CFO, and he or she will tell you that “yes, I’m very involved in operations.” But often such involvement is like having a second, lower-paying job: you can’t afford to divert too much focus away from your top breadwinner.Then there’s Jeff Richard, finance chief at Safety-K...
By David McCann • Oct. 31, 2012 -
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Alternative Health Benefits: “Like Bringing Your Pet to Work”?
This is the second of two articles on the role of complementary and alternative medicine in health-benefits plans. The first covered what is likely the most extensive CAM program in Corporate America. This article presents viewpoints from others in the corporate, medical, and insurance communitie...
By David McCann • Oct. 31, 2012 -
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“A Solution to Our Country’s Big Health-Care Problem”?
This is the first installment of a two-part series on the role of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in health-benefits plans. This article covers what’s likely the most extensive CAM program in Corporate America. Part 2 will present viewpoints from others in the corporate, medical, and...
By David McCann • Oct. 30, 2012 -
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The Hidden Value in Good Bosses
The movie Horrible Bosses takes the idea of a bad boss to its extreme. But is there any evidence about how much value good versus bad bosses (meaning middle-management supervisors) actually create? Are supervisors obsolete in an age when leaders and employees constantly connect through their phon...
By John Boudreau • Oct. 30, 2012
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