Human Capital: Page 56
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending February 10
Sunoco Inc. has promoted CFO Brian MacDonald to the posts of president and CEO, effective March 1. In those roles, he replaces Lynn Elsenhans, who will remain chairman of Sunoco Inc. and Sunoco Logistics Partners LP until the company’s annual meeting in May. MacDonald will replace her in those po...
By Joan Urdang • Feb. 10, 2012 -
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How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work
As a senior executive, you may think you know what Job No. 1 is: developing a killer strategy. In fact, that is only Job 1a. You have a second, equally important task. Call it Job 1b: enabling the ongoing engagement and everyday progress of the people in the trenches of your organization who stri...
By Steven Kramer and Teresa Amabile • Feb. 8, 2012 -
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Switch to Nonprofit Offers CFO Less Pressure, But It’s Still No Vacation
In the second of two articles about CFOs who have made the shift from public companies to not-for profit associations, Bob McLean tells the story of his transition. After a long finance career at both public and private companies, McLean has been CFO of Promotional Products Association Internatio...
By David McCann • Feb. 6, 2012 -
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Out of the Fire, into Nonprofit
Public-company CFOs are on the edge all the time. There is daily, scalding scrutiny from shareholders, Wall Street, banks, customers, the chief executive, the board, their staffs, and even their own consciences. At the same time, many talk about “the rush,” the acute excitement of pulling the str...
By David McCann • Feb. 5, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending February 3
Scott Goldenberg has been promoted to the top finance spot at retailer The TJX Cos. He has been executive vice president, finance, since 2009.ATK, a defense and aerospace firm, has appointed Neal Cohen finance chief, effective February 13. Formerly, he was president and chief operating officer of...
By Joan Urdang • Feb. 2, 2012 -
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Facebook CFO: “Wicked Smart,” But No Ego
Facebook may have revealed a large number of risk factors in Wednesday’s S-1 filing for its initial public offering. But one thing it almost surely won’t have to worry about is its CFO messing up the deal.Those who know David Ebersman, 42, could hardly be more effusive in their praise of his lead...
By David McCann • Feb. 2, 2012 -
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Why You Fired the New Guy
We’ve all been there. When you were looking for, say, a new controller or financial-reporting chief, you did the search the right way and even hired slowly. You took your time, sourced a bunch of candidates, went through a three-stage interview process, and then started over when you decided you ...
By Kris Dunn • Feb. 2, 2012 -
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HP’s Interesting Times
In its most recent 10-K filing, computer giant Hewlett-Packard lists among its business risks the “development of cloud-based solutions,” which would require the company to “transition to an environment characterized by cloud-based computing and software being delivered as a service.”“Transition”...
By David Rosenbaum • Feb. 1, 2012 -
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The New Talent Mix
It’s not news that today’s CFOs are more strategically oriented than many of their predecessors. But they are now trying to bring more of that analytical mind-set to their staffs, by adding more financial analysts than other types of finance positions.Compared with just two or three years ago, ne...
By David McCann • Feb. 1, 2012 -
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Focus on Business, Not IT
I think David Rosenbaum covers the subject of the CFO-CIO relationship quite well in “CFOs and CIOs: Can We Talk?” (December 2011). History shows the IT function to be far too technology-centric and not business-centric enough. The career path for people in IT is within IT, across enterprises, in...
By CFO Readers • Feb. 1, 2012 -
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In the Family Way
From childhood, Stew Leonard Jr. was groomed to take over his father’s Connecticut-based dairy and retail grocery business. He started by unloading trucks and stocking shelves and moved into management roles after graduating from college with an accounting degree. After a stint away at business s...
By Alix Stuart • Feb. 1, 2012 -
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Is Finance a Business Intelligence Customer Or Owner?
Using cloud computing for Business Intelligence (BI) promises to improve the quality and increase the speed of data-based decision making by tackling two historic BI pain points: the lack of ubiquitous access to data, and too many ill-matched, difficult-to-integrate data silos that inhibit compos...
By Beth Russell • Jan. 26, 2012 -
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For McDonald’s, Workers over 60 Are Precious Inventory
You know the principles of inventory optimization when it comes to raw materials, finished and unfinished goods, etc. You and your leaders understand the “80-20” rule – that 80% of the impact of inventory optimization occurs in the most pivotal 20% of inventory items. You don’t ignore the other 8...
By John Boudreau • Jan. 26, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending January 27
Transportation firm CSX Corp. has promoted Fredrik Eliasson to lead the finance function. He succeeds Oscar Munoz, who has been promoted to chief operating officer. Most recently, Eliasson was vice president of sales and marketing for the company’s fertilizer and chemicals division.John Mulligan ...
By Joan Urdang • Jan. 26, 2012 -
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A CFO & His Firm Fight for Disabled Veterans
The grace under pressure that’s essential for executing sensitive military missions is also a valuable trait for Cal Quinn in his civilian professional life, where he is CFO of Drexel Hamilton, a small but fast-growing institutional equity broker-dealer.Quinn, who served in specialized combat rol...
By David McCann • Jan. 25, 2012 -
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Acting as One: The Collective Leadership Approach
The ambition of organizational behavior can be stated simply as the ability to act “As One”: to effectively engage an organization’s people, purpose, and productivity. Many of the economic, political, and social challenges now confronting our society are variations of the same collective-action d...
By James Quigley • Jan. 24, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending January 20
Mark Rubash has resigned from the top finance spot at Shutterfly Inc., effective February 24. President and CEO Jeff Housenbold and chief accounting officer Brian Manca will take over for Rubash while a search for his replacement is under way.Marketing services and technology firm Acxiom Corp. ha...
By Joan Urdang • Jan. 20, 2012 -
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Fiduciary Proposal Puts CFOs’ Liability in Question
A U.S. Department of Labor proposal that critics worried would increase costs for participants of corporate retirement plans might have actually reduced the personal liability of some CFOs. A reproposed version of the rule, expected to be unveiled this year, will change the definition of “fiducia...
By Joseph S. Adams • Jan. 19, 2012 -
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Walgreen-Express Scripts War Could Cut Drug Costs
An epic pricing battle between Walgreen, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, and Express Scripts, arguably the second-biggest pharmacy benefits manager (PBM), has narrowed the size of pharmacy networks for thousands of corporate health-plan sponsors. And it could set the stage for more such win...
By David McCann • Jan. 18, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending January 13
Al Drewes has been named finance chief of The Sun Products Corp. He joins the household-products provider from Pepsi Bottling Group Inc., where he also was CFO.Discovery Communications Inc. has appointed Andrew Warren to lead the finance function, effective March 26. He takes over from Brad Singe...
By Joan Urdang • Jan. 13, 2012 -
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How to Stamp Out Irrational Health Choices
Research about behavioral economics can be extremely useful in designing and communicating employee benefit plans. Many organizations have already adapted behavioral-economic principles to improve how their employees use their defined contribution retirement plans. Many health decisions that shou...
By Christopher Goldsmith • Jan. 11, 2012 -
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How to Be a Strategic Communicator: 5 Tips
Even CFOs who are bona fide strategic partners may still fumble when talking finance to the rest of the company. To effectively collaborate with the executive team, the board, and other departments on key financial decisions, they should tell the story behind the numbers, not just interpret them,...
By Marielle Segarra • Jan. 10, 2012 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending January 6
Robert Gaffey has retired from the top finance spot at Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. and has been replaced by Jeffrey Young. Young joined the company as global controller in 2008 and was promoted to vice president, finance, and chief accounting officer last July.Illumina Inc. has appointed Marc S...
By Joan Urdang • Jan. 6, 2012 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Is Human-Capital R*I*S*K a Four-Letter Word?
Pundits are now frequently suggesting that there is a very real probability of an EU–zone financial crisis that could dwarf the global disruptions of 2007–2008. Perhaps the only really “safe” prediction about 2012 is that it is likely to be more volatile than most periods of recent history.How ar...
By John Boudreau • Jan. 5, 2012 -
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Best of 2011: Human Capital and Careers
One day, 2011 may be recognized as the year when the potential power of advanced human-capital analytics first caught the eyes of more than a sprinkling of finance executives. As the new year begins, however, many cling to long-held perceptions of human-capital management as a softer discipline t...
By CFO Editorial Staff • Jan. 4, 2012
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