Human Capital: Page 69
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How Would CFOs Fare on the Couch?
Imagine a sort of Sigmund Freud for CFOs: a psychiatric sage who knows their inner weaknesses, as well as their strengths, and helps them cope with personal and professional challenges.While no psychiatrists have such a specialty — yet — Dr. Barrie Sanford Greiff comes close. Through much of the ...
By Roy Harris • Nov. 5, 2010 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending November 5
Ray Young has been named finance chief at Archer Daniels Midland Co. He replaces Steven Mills, who has been promoted to senior executive vice president, performance and growth. Young, who has joined the company but will not take over from Mills until December 1, is a former CFO of General Motors ...
By Joan Urdang • Nov. 5, 2010 -
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Starting Over at a Start-up
He enjoyed all the trappings of executive privilege — a driver to shuttle him to meetings in Manhattan, client dinners in Mayfair during a four-year posting in London, a secretary to handle the Xeroxing.Craig Emrick doesn’t need any of it now.After State Street Global Markets laid him off in Janu...
By Kimberly Blanton • Nov. 4, 2010 -
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Starting Over at a Start-up
He enjoyed all the trappings of executive privilege — a driver to shuttle him to meetings in Manhattan, client dinners in Mayfair during a four-year posting in London, a secretary to handle the Xeroxing.Craig Emrick doesn’t need any of it now.After State Street Global Markets laid him off in Janu...
By Kimberly Blanton • Nov. 4, 2010 -
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Where Talent and Opportunity Meet
When Steve Sordello became the CFO of LinkedIn three years ago, the business social-networking company didn’t have much of a finance department, so one of his first tasks was to hire some key talent. He intended to do as company policy dictated: shun recruiters and strictly use LinkedIn tools to ...
By David McCann • Nov. 3, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Where Talent and Opportunity Meet
When Steve Sordello became the CFO of LinkedIn three years ago, the business social-networking company didn’t have much of a finance department, so one of his first tasks was to hire some key talent. He intended to do as company policy dictated: shun recruiters and strictly use LinkedIn tools to ...
By David McCann • Nov. 3, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Waiting, Wondering, Worrying
In 2007, Phoenix-based Goodmans Interior Structures, one of the Southwest’s largest office-furniture retailers, booked record sales “well in excess” of $100 million, according to CFO Douglas Klein. Asked about annual revenue for this year, Klein says, “We’ll end up half that size.”Things are toug...
By Randy Myers • Nov. 1, 2010 -
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“The Key Is to Outperform Your Competitors.”
Over the past two years, Diane Morefield has proven that she has the “REIT” stuff. As CFO of Strategic Hotels & Resorts, she navigates the complex financial waters of a publicly traded real estate investment trust focused on the high end of the hospitality market. It is a segment that thrives...
By Marie Leone • Nov. 1, 2010 -
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Cold, Cruel World
Oh, the irony: just two years ago we described a robust seller’s market for finance talent, with CFOs seemingly able to write their own ticket — and rewrite it any time they chose.Today, even the best-qualified finance executives will find that a job search is anything but a walk in the park. Few...
By Josh Hyatt and Alix Stuart • Nov. 1, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Waiting, Wondering, Worrying
In 2007, Phoenix-based Goodmans Interior Structures, one of the Southwest’s largest office-furniture retailers, booked record sales “well in excess” of $100 million, according to CFO Douglas Klein. Asked about annual revenue for this year, Klein says, “We’ll end up half that size.”Things are toug...
By Randy Myers • Nov. 1, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Cold, Cruel World
Oh, the irony: just two years ago we described a robust seller’s market for finance talent, with CFOs seemingly able to write their own ticket — and rewrite it any time they chose.Today, even the best-qualified finance executives will find that a job search is anything but a walk in the park. Few...
By Josh Hyatt and Alix Stuart • Nov. 1, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
The Incredible Shrinking Finance Department
When veteran CFO Eric Sockol became the first finance chief at Gemvara, an online customized-jewelry venture, he quickly developed a plan to staff up the finance department in order to boost its productivity, an effort that will entail pulling back into the company some finance work that had been...
By Alix Stuart • Nov. 1, 2010 -
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CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 29
Patrick Dupuis has been named to lead the finance function at PayPal. Most recently, he was global CFO at Sitel.Douglas Jeffries is the new finance chief at Taleo Corp. He joins the firm from Palm Inc., where he also served as CFO.Kroll has appointed Donald Buzinkai to head finance. He comes to t...
By Joan Urdang • Oct. 29, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 29
Patrick Dupuis has been named to lead the finance function at PayPal. Most recently, he was global CFO at Sitel.Douglas Jeffries is the new finance chief at Taleo Corp. He joins the firm from Palm Inc., where he also served as CFO.Kroll has appointed Donald Buzinkai to head finance. He comes to t...
By Joan Urdang • Oct. 29, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
In Finance Team Building, Xerox Copied No One
The centerpiece of Xerox’s year has been February’s $6.4 billion acquisition of business-process-outsourcer Affiliated Computer Services (ACS), helping reposition the copier icon as a technology and services giant. But major groundwork was laid through a finance reorganization and team-building e...
By Roy Harris • Oct. 25, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 22
Bookseller Borders Group Inc. has named Scott Henry to the top finance spot. Previously, he was president of consultancy S.D. Henry Strategic Services LLC.Tod Spornhauer will resign as CFO of restaurant owner and operator Bob Evans Farms Inc. on January 3. Spornhauer, who joined the company in 19...
By Joan Urdang • Oct. 22, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 22
Bookseller Borders Group Inc. has named Scott Henry to the top finance spot. Previously, he was president of consultancy S.D. Henry Strategic Services LLC.Tod Spornhauer will resign as CFO of restaurant owner and operator Bob Evans Farms Inc. on January 3. Spornhauer, who joined the company in 19...
By Joan Urdang • Oct. 22, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Job Hunting: Should You Tell Your Boss?
Earlier this year, Shirley Wiliani, CFO of Menemsha Development Group, a privately held commercial construction company based in southern California, decided it was time to start looking for a new job. After helping the company triple its revenue during the past four years, she felt she had accom...
By Alix Stuart • Oct. 20, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Job Hunting: Should You Tell Your Boss?
Earlier this year, Shirley Wiliani, CFO of Menemsha Development Group, a privately held commercial construction company based in southern California, decided it was time to start looking for a new job. After helping the company triple its revenue during the past four years, she felt she had accom...
By Alix Stuart • Oct. 20, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Medtronic Keeps Innovation on Pace
Medical devices account for 6% of worldwide health-care spending, and Minneapolis-based Medtronic is the behemoth of this $200 billion-plus market. The 40,000 employee company has $4 billion in annual cash flow and number-one market share in many of its product areas — not just in its well-known ...
By Vincent Ryan • Oct. 19, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
Medtronic Keeps Innovation on Pace
Medical devices account for 6% of worldwide health-care spending, and Minneapolis-based Medtronic is the behemoth of this $200 billion-plus market. The 40,000 employee company has $4 billion in annual cash flow and number-one market share in many of its product areas — not just in its well-known ...
By Vincent Ryan • Oct. 19, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 15
Antoinette McCorvey has been promoted to finance chief at Eastman Kodak Co., effective November 5. McCorvey, currently director of investor relations, will succeed Frank Sklarsky, who has resigned to become CFO of Tyco International Ltd.Genworth Financial Inc. has named finance chief Patrick Kell...
By Joan Urdang • Oct. 15, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
A CFO for Governor?
In 2002, immersed in a 29-year accounting career in the private sector, Kim Wallin was nominated from the floor and elected by popular vote as president-elect of the Institute of Management Accountants — the first time such a thing had happened in the association’s then-83-year history. (The IMA’...
By David Katz • Oct. 15, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
A CFO for Governor?
In 2002, immersed in a 29-year accounting career in the private sector, Kim Wallin was nominated from the floor and elected by popular vote as president-elect of the Institute of Management Accountants — the first time such a thing had happened in the association’s then-83-year history. (The IMA’...
By David Katz • Oct. 15, 2010 -
Dantes, Edmond. "Man and Woman Sitting on Chair Using Laptop" [Photograph]. Retrieved from Pexels.
CFOs on the Move: Week Ending October 15
Antoinette McCorvey has been promoted to finance chief at Eastman Kodak Co., effective November 5. McCorvey, currently director of investor relations, will succeed Frank Sklarsky, who has resigned to become CFO of Tyco International Ltd.Genworth Financial Inc. has named finance chief Patrick Kell...
By Joan Urdang • Oct. 15, 2010
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