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Disclosing vital data about a company's workforce will soon be the norm. Will U.S. businesses fall in line? This is one genie that's not going to be stuffed back into [...]

Tension between superpowers. Tariffs. Rising interest rates. Volatile markets. Stagnant wages. Brexit. A flattening yield curve. Most of all, a 10-year run of relatively stable economic growth that is long [...]

As much as anyone else, finance chiefs swap companies when unemployment is extremely low, job-hopping is profitable, and exciting opportunities abound. The CFO turnover rate for 2018 is 1.5 percentage [...]

Is the company a shining example of innovation or an anticompetitive scourge? Four experts weigh in on the issue. Amazon is cool, right? Who wants to spend hours shopping in [...]

Next year promises to be an exciting (and, possibly, very critical) year for many companies. Interest rates may finally head higher, workers may be tougher to find, valuations pricier, and [...]

Since the notion of supply chain management emerged in the 1800s, the focus has been on transporting parts, materials, and finished goods from point to point at the lowest cost. [...]

Running finance at a large, publicly traded company is, of course, a big job with long hours and little downtime. So why would a CFO want to expend time and [...]

Lee Coulter arrived at a point when he recognized within himself a chronic 'near-medical-level' case of frustration. After decades as a shared-services executive and ceaseless immersion in that function's accelerating [...]

Like its longtime rival Arrow Electronics, electronic components distributor Avnet is in the middle of a gritty transformation of its business, driven by fast-changing customer needs, [paragraph] Making the kind [...]

CHOOSING THE TOP FINANCE CHIEFS for the third annual installment of CFOs to Watch was tricky. We wanted to honor a CFO's past performance but, like stock-pickers, also wanted to [...]

In early 2014, Hugh O'Toole of retirement plan provider MassMutual felt discouraged--'haunted,' he says--by finance chiefs' lack of engagement in their companies' 40i(k) plans, [paragraph] When he met with the [...]

While the nation awaits the promised repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act, most employer health-plan sponsors have their attention focused elsewhere: health-care costs for employees at large companies [...]

More companies are using a subscription-based business model, attracted by the promise of recurring revenue. But for many, realizing the gains won't be easy. NOT VERY LONG AGO, WHEN PEOPLE [...]

The shortage of young finance talent is widely discussed among CFOs, but rarely closely examined. The shrinking unemployment rate has drained the talent pool in many corporate functions and industries, [...]

Non-GAAP metrics can help tell the story of a company's performance. But is their increasing prevalence starting to render the official earnings numbers less relevant? One way of looking at [...]

Prodded by investors, some companies are disclosing more data about their workforces. But how much value will that information have? After many years marked by varied, mostly unsuccessful initiatives to [...]

In fairly short order, robots have begun taking over in the corporate world. Don't be alarmed. This is nothing like the feared 'singularity,' that prophesied (if dubious) moment when humans [...]

For 401(k) plan sponsors, the risk of being sued is seemingly on the rise. Over the past year, plan participants have filed class actions against companies like Verizon Communications, Intel, [...]

* Even as increases in the cost of health care have moderated significantly in recent years, for finance departments the issue remains a festering wound. After many years of shifting [...]

More and more companies are persuaded that climate change is real. So why aren't insurers factoring it into property insurance premiums? * If you're a doubter on climate change, take [...]

For all their differences, Hillary Clinton, Paul Ryan, and Bernie Sanders agree on one thing: the 'Cadillac tax' should be scrapped. Scheduled to be implemented in 2018, the 40% excise [...]

As a company's supply chain grows, so does its exposure to risk. Experts recommend that companies periodically audit their supply chains to identify vulnerable links, but the value that such [...]

By the time Laurence Tosi left Blackstone Group in August to become finance chief of Airbnb, the home-rental startup, there had been ample chatter about the growing trend of CFOs [...]

When David Sackett was spearheading the selection of a new 401(k) provider for his employer in 2013, what he knew most clearly was that he didn't know much. 'My level [...]

In the broad business-model shift that has swept through the software industry over the past decade, has any large company in that field--let alone a publicly held one--pulled off the [...]