Human Capital: Page 60


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    Play Time or Pay Day?

    Now that most companies have implemented the initial effective provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it may soon be time to start thinking about a key element of the health-care reform law that’s not slated to take effect until 2014.That year, under a provision known collo...

    By July 21, 2011
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    Play Time or Pay Day?

    Now that most companies have implemented the initial effective provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, it may soon be time to start thinking about a key element of the health-care reform law that’s not slated to take effect until 2014.That year, under a provision known collo...

    By July 21, 2011
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    Mandate Mayhem

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”) — known as health-care reform or ObamaCare by many proponents and opponents, respectively — is being challenged in the courts. A major issue concerns the constitutionality of the federal mandate that all individuals maintain adequate heal...

    By Jeff Mamorsky • July 19, 2011
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    Mandate Mayhem

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the “Act”) — known as health-care reform or ObamaCare by many proponents and opponents, respectively — is being challenged in the courts. A major issue concerns the constitutionality of the federal mandate that all individuals maintain adequate heal...

    By Jeff Mamorsky • July 19, 2011
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    Taking the Next Step

     When it comes to gender diversity in finance, there is no other way to put it: women’s progress toward the top echelons has stalled. Although women make up 56% of undergraduate accounting majors and 36% of all MBAs, they fill just 9% of CFO roles at large companies, a percentage that has remaine...

    By Marielle Segarra • July 15, 2011
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    Think (Again)

    On a drizzly day in late May, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge welcomes a visitor to the company’s Armonk, New York, headquarters by offering him a printed PowerPoint deck. Nothing new in that — executives of all stripes, and particularly in finance, like to work from a script.What is different, however, ...

    By Scott Leibs • July 15, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 15

    Biotechnology firm Avila Therapeutics Inc. has appointed Andrew Hirsch to be its first finance chief. He comes to the company from Biogen Idec, where he was vice president of corporate strategy and M&A.Darian Hong has been tapped for the top finance spot at software-as-a-service provider Lead...

    By Joan Urdang • July 15, 2011
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    Compensation Confrontation

    Down in the weeds of executive compensation, things can be pretty hard to fathom. Not just for ignorant folk, but for experts, too. “Even for people like me who are in it every day, it’s still hard to understand sometimes,” confesses Aaron Boyd, head of research for Equilar, a compensation-resear...

    By July 15, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 15

    Biotechnology firm Avila Therapeutics Inc. has appointed Andrew Hirsch to be its first finance chief. He comes to the company from Biogen Idec, where he was vice president of corporate strategy and M&A.Darian Hong has been tapped for the top finance spot at software-as-a-service provider Lead...

    By Joan Urdang • July 15, 2011
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    Taking the Next Step

    When it comes to gender diversity in finance, there is no other way to put it: women’s progress toward the top echelons has stalled. Although women make up 56% of undergraduate accounting majors and 36% of all MBAs, they fill just 9% of CFO roles at large companies, a percentage that has remained...

    By Marielle Segarra • July 15, 2011
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    “You Take Risks and You Own Them.”

    For the right kind of finance executive, the lure of a CFO post at a private-equity portfolio company is easy to see: a potential equity stake that could mushroom in value upon a successful exit, an opportunity to make a big impact, and, for some, the chance to escape the glaring spotlight at a p...

    By July 15, 2011
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    A Word from Your Sponsor?

    Since 1995, we have been tracking women’s progress toward the top CFO posts in the country. In many respects that progress has been the reverse of the quip about how a man goes broke (slowly, then all at once). Women made remarkable progress between 1995 and 2005, as the ranks of female CFOs at F...

    By Scott Leibs • July 15, 2011
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    Spies Like You?

    The days when a company could simply un-friend social media — hiding it behind a firewall so employees couldn’t access it — are disappearing faster than yesterday’s “Trending Now” topics on Twitter.With an estimated 70% of social-media use coming from mobile devices like smartphones, and new onli...

    By Josh Hyatt • July 15, 2011
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    “Yeah, I Worked for Lehman, But …”

    How do you find a new, high-level finance job if your previous employer is an albatross around your neck? What about if you’re on the hiring side, looking to fill a key staff position — should you err on the side of caution and not consider a person from an albatross company? The somewhat contrad...

    By July 13, 2011
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    “Yeah, I Worked for Lehman, But …“

    How do you find a new, high-level finance job if your previous employer is an albatross around your neck? What about if you’re on the hiring side, looking to fill a key staff position — should you err on the side of caution and not consider a person from an albatross company? The somewhat contrad...

    By July 13, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 8

    Hyperdynamics Corp. has named Paul Reinbolt to head finance, effective August 8. He is retiring from Marathon Oil Corp., where he has worked since 1980, most recently as vice president-finance and treasurer.Joel Wine has been named CFO and treasurer of Alexander & Baldwin Inc., effective Sept...

    By Joan Urdang • July 8, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 8

    Hyperdynamics Corp. has named Paul Reinbolt to head finance, effective August 8. He is retiring from Marathon Oil Corp., where he has worked since 1980, most recently as vice president-finance and treasurer.Joel Wine has been named CFO and treasurer of Alexander & Baldwin Inc., effective Sept...

    By Joan Urdang • July 8, 2011
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    How to Mentor Your Boss, the CEO

    At a recent Institute of Management Accountants conference, Rich Beyer, chairman and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, gave a presentation titled, “Financial Executives as True Business Partners.” The topic is not new to CFOs. But what made the presentation beyond the norm was its focus on the rela...

    By Bud Kulesza • July 7, 2011
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    How to Mentor Your Boss, the CEO

    At a recent Institute of Management Accountants conference, Rich Beyer, chairman and CEO of Freescale Semiconductor, gave a presentation titled, “Financial Executives as True Business Partners.” The topic is not new to CFOs. But what made the presentation beyond the norm was its focus on the rela...

    By Bud Kulesza • July 7, 2011
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    Enemy Number One: The Clock

    CFOs face plenty of hindrances in trying to get their job done right: office politics, sluggish staff members, and a never-ending set of new regulations demanding compliance, to name a few. Which one is most vexing, though?In a recent survey, CFO asked more than 300 finance executives at small an...

    By Alix Stuart • July 6, 2011
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    Accountants Have a Pay Party

    After two straight years when average pay increases for corporate accountants trailed the inflation rate, a healthy gain was recorded in 2010, according to the annual salary survey by the Institute of Management Accountants.The IMA’s membership is diverse: 20% senior executives, 37% directors or ...

    By July 5, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 1

    Clint Freeland has been appointed to the top finance spot at Dynegy Inc. He joins the power company from NRG Energy, where he was senior vice president, strategy & financial structure.Storage area network company Virtual Instruments has named George Harrington CFO. He is a former vice preside...

    By Joan Urdang • July 1, 2011
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    CFOs on the Move: Week Ending July 1

    Clint Freeland has been appointed to the top finance spot at Dynegy Inc. He joins the power company from NRG Energy, where he was senior vice president, strategy & financial structure.Storage area network company Virtual Instruments has named George Harrington CFO. He is a former vice preside...

    By Joan Urdang • July 1, 2011
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    Employee Perks Stage a Comeback

    National employment figures may be rather stagnant — annoyingly so, if you’d like to see some improvement in the economy — but the market for top-level talent appears to be loosening considerably. There are loads of signs, including a recent survey by The Corporate Executive Board that found 25% ...

    By June 30, 2011
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    Employee Perks Stage a Comeback

    National employment figures may be rather stagnant — annoyingly so, if you’d like to see some improvement in the economy — but the market for top-level talent appears to be loosening considerably. There are loads of signs, including a recent survey by The Corporate Executive Board that found 25% ...

    By June 30, 2011