Human Capital: Page 49
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“Private Exchanges” Could Trigger Health-Benefits Revolution
This is the first installment in a three-part series that introduces the just-burgeoning world of private health-insurance exchanges. Part 2 fleshes out the case for private exchanges and suggests some drawbacks. Part 3 examines the vendors in the market and their products.Barely more than two ye...
By David McCann • Oct. 8, 2012 -
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Leading the Charge
By almost any standard, Visa is an uncommonly successful company. One of the planet’s best-known brands, the $9.2 billion (2011 revenues) payment-card giant operates the world’s largest retail electronic payments network. Visa’s stock, which debuted at $44 in 2008 in the largest initial public of...
By Edward Teach • Oct. 8, 2012 -
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From Corporate Finance to the Archbishop of Canterbury?
As biblical orthodoxy puts it, you cannot serve both God and mammon. Twenty-five years ago, having chosen to serve God and study theology, Justin Welby gave up an 11-year finance career that had seen him rise to the ranks of group treasurer with a major U.K. company, Enterprise Oil. Ordained as a...
By Andrew Sawers • Oct. 5, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 5
Bernard Gutmann has been promoted to CFO at ON Semiconductor Corp. He succeeds Donald Colvin, who announced his resignation in August and will stay at the company until the end of the month. Gutmann had been vice president, corporate analysis & strategy, of Semiconductor Components Industry L...
By Joan Urdang • Oct. 4, 2012 -
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The CFO as Casting Director
During a panel session at the CFO Rising West conference in Las Vegas this week, three seasoned CFOs discussed the ever-changing, ever-expanding role played by today’s finance chiefs. Equipped with just two hands and only so many hours in a day, how do they cope?In a single phrase: they hire the ...
By Taylor Provost • Oct. 3, 2012 -
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Talkin’ About Y Generation
Generation Y workers aren’t slackers, they’re just misunderstood. And they need a whole lot of interaction with their bosses.That’s what Wilson Standish, account manager at research and consulting firm Trendera — and a member of Generation Y himself — told a crowd of CFO Rising West attendees in ...
By Taylor Provost • Oct. 2, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending September 28
Yahoo has appointed Ken Goldman to the top finance spot, effective October 22. He replaces Tim Morse, who will leave the firm later this fall. Most recently, Goldman headed finance at Fortinet.Carol Sawdye has been named CFO and vice chair of PricewaterhouseCoopers. She previously was at the firm...
By Joan Urdang • Sept. 28, 2012 -
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The Steelcase Finance Team: a Moveable Feast
In the killing-two-birds-with-one-stone department, $2.7 billion office-furnishings maker Steelcase has created a more collaborative work environment for its finance team: one that also serves as a showroom-like setting for viewing by prospective corporate customers that visit company headquarter...
By David McCann • Sept. 27, 2012 -
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Why Your Company Should Have More ‘Slackers’
CFOs make all kinds of investments, but how about investing in more down time for employees? That may sound like a recipe for creating a bunch of slackers, but in fact the idea of optimal slack in a system is as fundamental to talent optimization as it is to engineering. Planned and mindful slack...
By John Boudreau • Sept. 27, 2012 -
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Could a CFO Run the Bank of England?
For years it’s been known that Bank of England Governor Sir Mervyn King would be stepping down in June 2013 at the expiry of his second five-year term. In mid-September, The Economist magazine finally carried the formal job ad for the much-coveted role – one that currently pays £305,000 ($494,175...
By Andrew Sawers • Sept. 25, 2012 -
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CEO, CFO Make Clean Break of It – In Public
Usually when a chief executive officer decides to part company with his CFO, the public pronouncements are couched in the sort of diplomatic language that makes the two parties look like founding members of a mutual admiration society. And usually, few are convinced by the press releases that tal...
By Andrew Sawers • Sept. 25, 2012 -
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Good-bye COO, Hello More Responsibility
For all the talk about CFOs being CEO candidates, the jump is still a rarity at large companies. But the gradual, long-term waning of the chief operating officer title from the corporate landscape may make it more common in the future.That decline has been steady since 2000, when 47% of the 669 c...
By David McCann • Sept. 24, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending September 21
The Goldman Sachs Group has announced that CFO David Viniar plans to retire at the end of January 2013 and will join the board as a nonindependent director then. He will be succeeded by Harvey Schwartz, global co-head of the securities division.Karen Dykstra has been named to lead the finance fun...
By Joan Urdang • Sept. 21, 2012 -
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Watch Out for Exec-Pay Tax Deduction Traps
The compensation committee grants your CEO an option to acquire 1 million shares of the company’s publicly traded common stock. The option grant is timely reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission in a Form 4 filing. Then months later, you learn the grant exceeded the maximum number of s...
By Andrew Liazos • Sept. 17, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending September 14
Tenet Healthcare Corp. has named Daniel Cancelmi as its next finance chief. He has been principal accounting officer since 2007.Richard Rodick has been named CFO and executive vice president – finance of supply-chain services firm UTi Worldwide Inc. Rodick, who replaces Lawrence Samuels, most rec...
By Joan Urdang • Sept. 13, 2012 -
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What Would Your Successor Do?
If you’re tempted to ask your boss, “Am I your guy?” don’t bother. My guess is that you probably already know his answer. After years of focusing on costs, businesses are searching for top-line growth and finding their organizations are not up to the task. For incumbent leaders, the realization...
By Susan Cramm • Sept. 12, 2012 -
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Encouraging Your People to Take the Long View
Measuring the performance of people, especially managers and senior executives, presents a perennial conundrum. Without quantifiable goals, it’s difficult to measure progress objectively. At the same time, companies that rely too much on financial or other “hard” performance targets risk putting ...
By Tony Gibbs and Suzanne Heywood • Sept. 12, 2012 -
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Dreading Obamacare, CFOs Plan for Perils
This is the second article in a two-part series. The first appeared Friday, September 7.Many finance chiefs are rooting hard for a Romney triumph in the Presidential race and for Republicans to win back a majority in the Senate, in hopes of a repeal or dilution of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I...
By David McCann • Sept. 10, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending September 7
Doug Martin has been promoted to the top finance spot at Newell Rubbermaid. Previously, Martin, who replaces Juan Figuereo, was deputy CFO.Professional-services company Marsh & McLennan Cos. has named J. Michael Bischoff as its next finance chief. Bischoff, who has been at the firm since 1982...
By Joan Urdang • Sept. 6, 2012 -
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A November Surprise?
So far, the Department of Labor’s new rule requiring 401(k) plan sponsors to distribute fee-disclosure statements to plan participants hasn’t had much impact, experts say. Sponsors had until August 30 to comply with ERISA section 404(a)(5) by revealing the amount of fees that are being charged to...
By Bonnie Evans • Sept. 1, 2012 -
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Hiring, Hesitantly
Business is growing at Niles Bolton Associates, and director of finance Pat Neeley says the Atlanta-based architecture firm has increased its staff by 15% to 20% from last year. Still, like many of her peers, she is far from upbeat. “We’re not really confident that the growth we’ve seen will cont...
By Kate O'Sullivan • Sept. 1, 2012 -
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An 18th Century Solution to Human Capital Reporting Standards
Ever hear of Thomas Bayes? He was a “nonconformist” minister in the 1700s who developed a theory of probability that became a pillar of modern statistics. “Bayes’ Theorem” held, in part, that the value of information is greater when it is more likely to change a decision, when being wrong has lar...
By John Boudreau • Aug. 27, 2012 -
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Five Best Practices for IT Governance
When human-resources leaders ask my firm to help them replace their current chief information officer with a new one, it’s sometimes because the erstwhile incumbent is moving on to a new job. But more often, we get the call because the current CIO . . . is just not working out. The most common ...
By Martha Heller • Aug. 27, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending August 24
Clean Harbors Inc. has named vice chairman, CFO, and treasurer James Rutledge president and chief operating officer, a newly created position. Rutledge, who will remain vice chairman at the energy, environmental, and industrial-services provider, is being replaced as CFO and treasurer by Robert G...
By Joan Urdang • Aug. 24, 2012 -
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Quick Take: Estée Lauder CFO Tracey Travis
Name: Tracey TravisTitle: CFOCompany: Estée Lauder Cos. [Editor’s note: Travis starts at Estée Lauder today, August 20, having moved over from Ralph Lauren, where she had been CFO since 2005.]What is your best piece of advice for aspiring CFOs?Seek out operational financial support roles to key f...
By Kate O'Sullivan • Aug. 20, 2012
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