Blinded by the Light
How the “halo effect” distorts our view of company performance.
Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Finance, Miscellaneous
Star Search
Companies are increasingly looking in top MBA programs for finance talent.
Content: Prospective MBA Content | Author: Alix Nyberg Stuart | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Miscellaneous MBA-related Resources
Misgivings
Recent studies raise an uncharitable question: Is nonprofit accounting off track?
Content: Article | Author: Joseph McCafferty | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Accounting, Nonprofit | Industry: Non-Profit
From Push to Pull: The Next Frontier of Innovation
In “push” systems the core assumptions are that companies and other institutions can anticipate demand and that mobilizing scarce resources in previously specified ways is the most efficient and reliable way to meet it. But the efficiency of push systems comes at a stiff price, for they require companies to specify, monitor, and enforce detailed activities and tasks. This rigidity necessarily restricts the number and … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: John Hagel III, John Seely Brown | Sources: CFO Publishing, McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Innovation, Marketing / Sales
Are Your Workers Engaged?
A Productive Debate
Is the link between pay and productivity broken?
Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Economics
Paul Volcker
When I look at stock options, I am more and more convinced that in a basic sense, the trouble is not whether you expense or not – stock options are just a bad instrument. They’re so subject to abuse, you want to get rid of them. There ought to be better ways of compensating people. There are better ways. Because the results are so capricious, … [ Read more ]
Content: Quotation | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Compensation, Finance
Pay Dirt
As the SEC shines a light on executive compensation, will companies clean up their acts or find new ways to hide excess?
Content: Article | Author: Don Durfee | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Corporate Governance, Finance
Lowering the Bar
How market beta can make hurdle rates look artificially low.
Content: Article | Author: Don Durfee | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Economics, Finance
Global Biotech in 2005
Tribal Gaming Has Become Big Business
(Don’t) Look Deep into My Lease
Terms can be mesmerizing, but companies get a rude awakening when leasing’s real cost is revealed.
Content: Article | Author: Linda Corman | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Finance
How Banks Stack Up on Underwriting
Building the Healthy Corporation
The emphasis on quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term corporate health sometimes reaches absurd extremes: in one survey, executives said they would scale back investments in R&D and marketing to meet their quarterly forecasts–even if these cuts would hurt the long-term prospects of their companies. Since the capital markets value both immediate and sustained performance, companies should embrace a portfolio of initiatives over three … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Authors: Keith Leslie, Lenny T. Mendonca, Richard Dobbs | Sources: CFO Publishing, McKinsey Quarterly | Subjects: Finance, Management
Try Before You Buy
Companies are using alliances to take the risk out of acquisitions.
Content: Article | Author: Don Durfee | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Strategy
First, Forget What Works
The success of an innovative new business may depend on forgetting what makes the core business tick.
Content: Article | Author: Edward Teach | Source: CFO Publishing | Subjects: Innovation, Management
The Quest for an Environmental Metric
Gazing at weather systems, a ground-breaking scientist spawned an ecological accounting standard that Wall Street might one day embrace.
Editor’s Note: discusses emergy, a concept created by University of Florida professor Howard Odum, which is a blueprint for breaking down the world into basic, measurable energy components called solar emjoules. A joule is a unit of energy that is available now. An emjoule (“energy-embodied joule”) … [ Read more ]
Content: Article | Author: Lisa Yoon | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Social Responsibility (ESG)
Total U.S. Tort Costs Continue to Climb
Total Uninsured Workforce by Company Size (U.S.)
Keeping In Touch
Corporate alumni networks are an increasingly valuable resource for employees and employers alike.
Content: Article | Author: Kate O’Sullivan | Source: CFO Publishing | Subject: Human Resources