Human Capital: Page 53
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Less Offshoring Won’t Mean More Onshoring
U.S. and European companies will soon begin to offshore fewer business-services jobs, say researchers at The Hackett Group. But that doesn’t mean more jobs will be brought back onshore.Those companies will simply start to “run out of jobs that can be moved offshore” by 2016, explains Michel Janss...
By Marielle Segarra • May 15, 2012 -
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Technically Speaking
With topics ranging from cloud computing to social-media strategy to data security, technology concerns are in the news daily. They’re also on the finance chief’s mind, according to CFO’s latest Deep Dive Survey, which asked more than 200 senior finance executives about their top technology conce...
By Kate O'Sullivan • May 15, 2012 -
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To Get Ahead, Go in Reverse
The usual direction of innovation is from rich countries to emerging markets: design a product for the former, then export it (often a cheaper, no-frills version) to the latter. But authors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble of Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business argue that multinationa...
By CFO Editorial Staff • May 15, 2012 -
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Risk Takers, Career Makers
Like their male counterparts, female CFOs have taken many paths to the top spot. Some have come straight up through finance, while others moved over from operations. Some have been at the same company for decades, and others have forged their way through several companies in pursuit of new challe...
By Alix Stuart • May 15, 2012 -
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Time’s Up on 401(k) Fee-Disclosure Compliance
The July 1 deadline for compliance with the Department of Labor’s 401(k) and 403(b) fee-disclosure regulations is fast approaching. Reviewing related information is part of an employer’s fiduciary responsibility to prudently administer plan funds and service providers and make sure fees paid by t...
By Jeff Mamorsky • May 15, 2012 -
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Too Much Data, Too Little Judgment
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams that want as much data at their fingertips as possible yet insist on using only “perfect” data in their analyses are unlikely to provide the kind of actionable insight many CFOs seek from those teams, a new report suggests.The desired level of insi...
By David McCann • May 15, 2012 -
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Too Much Data, Not Enough Insight
Thanks for the timely caution in “Putting People First” (April). It’s now dangerously easy to gather reams of data and crunch it through newer, more powerful tools as we rush to keep up with the newest technology offerings. This generates plenty of information, but we need people with insight at ...
By CFO Readers • May 15, 2012 -
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Take a Chance on Yourself
Success in the working world often hinges on knowing when it’s time to move on. You’ve worked hard for a given company, learned a lot, made many contributions — but the thrill is gone, and you want to advance in your career. So you take a chance on a new opportunity, trusting that the skills that...
By Scott Leibs • May 15, 2012 -
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Dell Training Program Is Here and There
Most Fortune 100 companies have substantial formal programs for educating their top finance talent, and Dell is no exception. But the technology giant may have a slight edge, thanks in part to its use of a simple tactic that is nonetheless uncommon for such programs.Almost all companies Dell’s si...
By David McCann • May 11, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending May 11
J.C. Penney Co. has appointed Ken Hannah to lead the finance function. Most recently, he was president of solar energy at MEMC Electronic Materials; before that, he was CFO of that company.CFO Hermann Waldemer has decided to take early retirement from Philip Morris International Inc., effective J...
By Joan Urdang • May 10, 2012 -
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New Lufthansa CFO Is Airline’s First Woman Exec Board Member
German airline Lufthansa has named Simone Menne as CFO, effective July 1. She is the first woman named to the executive board of the German airline and is currently the only woman CFO in the German DAX-30 stock market index. For the past two years, Menne, 51, has been CFO of British Midland, the ...
By Andrew Sawers • May 8, 2012 -
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Ford’s Risky Pension Gambit
Ford Motor Co.’s recent announcement of a new pension-payout option for retirees may help accomplish the company’s goal of strengthening its balance sheet. But over the years, could that come at a cost to Ford’s bottom line?The automaker says it will offer 90,000 retirees and former employees the...
By David McCann • May 8, 2012 -
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How Do Your HR Metrics Compare to Your Competitors’?
Spurred by the newly proposed standard for the disclosure of human-capital metrics, Automatic Data Processing (ADP) is gearing up to provide clients with something they’ve been requesting for years: benchmark information on its huge customer base.The human-resources outsourcing provider’s plan co...
By David McCann • May 3, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending May 4
As part of an organizational change, Hyatt Hotels Corp. has announced that finance chief Harmit Singh will leave that position on August 15 and will continue in his job as executive vice president through December 31, when he will leave the company. Gebhard Rainer, managing director, Europe/Afric...
By Joan Urdang • May 3, 2012 -
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Easing the Pain of Defined-Benefit Pension Plans
Defined-benefit pension plan sponsors mostly worry about asset allocation in the context of expected returns, but it’s the volatility of returns, relative to the liabilities, that has been causing the real pain. Volatile investment returns, particularly those that are not significantly correlated...
By Kimberlee Lisella • May 2, 2012 -
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Outcry over Proposed Human Capital Metrics Disclosure
The Society for Human Resource Management’s proposed standard for what companies should disclose about their human capital is not a big hit with CFOs and is getting mixed reviews from equity analysts.The SHRM and others are concerned that the absence of publicly disclosed human-capital metrics ha...
By David McCann • May 1, 2012 -
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Does Finance Play Second Fiddle to HR?
My last column noted that CFOs report spending less time on being a strategic partner than do human-resources (HR) leaders. Because that was a surprising research result, I then posed the question of whether CFOs are actually less involved in strategic partnership, or perhaps finance and HR profe...
By John Boudreau • April 30, 2012 -
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Breaking Strategic Inertia: Tips from Two Leaders
Frameworks abound for developing corporate strategy. But there’s no textbook or theory that explains how to deliver on that strategy by shifting capital, talent, and other scarce resources from one part of a business to another. One reason is that the moves each organization must make at any poin...
By Stephen Hall and Dan Lovallo • April 30, 2012 -
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Medical Claims Dip Boosts Humana’s Q1 Results
A lower-than-expected number of medical claims by corporate buyers of Humana’s health-insurance policies sold to employers contributed to the company’s healthy numbers for the first quarter.“Although we expect a gradual uptick in utilization at some point, we did not experience an increase in the...
By Sarah Johnson • April 30, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending April 27
JetBlue Airways has named Mark Powers to lead the finance function. He had been interim CFO since October.Jerry Elliott will take over the top finance spot at Leap Wireless International Inc., effective May 1. The owner of Jerry Elliott Interests LLC, he is a former CFO of The Weather Channel, Fr...
By Joan Urdang • April 26, 2012 -
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FP&A Peril: Too Much Data, Too Little Judgment
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) teams that want as much data at their fingertips as possible yet insist on using only “perfect” data in their analyses are unlikely to provide the kind of actionable insight many CFOs seek from those teams, a new report suggests.The desired level of insi...
By David McCann • April 23, 2012 -
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How CFOs Can Stem Turnover
For some time now, it has been predicted that companies can expect high voluntary employee turnover when the economy starts to recover. The hardest hit could be companies whose employees have become unmotivated, unattached, and disengaged during the downturn.Corporate talent programs are falling ...
By James Quigley • April 20, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending April 20
United Continental Holdings Inc. has promoted John Rainey to become its next CFO. He takes over from Zane Rowe, who is leaving the company. Previously, Rainey was senior vice president of financial planning and analysis at United; before that, he was vice president of financial planning and analy...
By Joan Urdang • April 20, 2012 -
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Hospital CFOs Dig In for a Tough Fight
As the fate of health-care reform is batted about behind the closed doors of the Supreme Court, stakeholders continue preparing for a future that may feature widespread compliance with many provisions of the law — even if the High Court substantially depletes it or Congress later repeals it.Among...
By David McCann • April 19, 2012 -
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Apologizing for Bad News? Be Careful with the Video
Two years ago this week, on April 20, 2010, BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, killing 11 workers and spilling millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. On June 3, 2010, BP chief executive Tony Hayward went on YouTube, promising to “make this right.” By the end of July, Haywa...
By David Rosenbaum • April 16, 2012
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