On-Demand Webcast
You can't always predict or prevent disaster. But as a leader, you can be prepared to help your company stand strong in the face of uncertainty. Great CFOs from the Forbes 2000 List of Companies share their secrets to successful financial leadership and thriving in treacherous times.
Register now to get on-demand access to highlights from the 2006 Forbes CFO Conference.
Segments in the Webcast include:
- Economic Forecast and Interview with Steve Forbes – Post-Katrina, fears of huge deficits, rising unemployment, and long-term stagnation color many economic forecasts. Yet the strength of the American economy and the power of the free market system cannot be underestimated, and most economic indicators remain strong. So, is the glass half empty or half full?
- What's Your Plan B? – Recent tragic events have highlighted the need to have solid plans in place, ready to activate on a moment's notice. When the next big one hits, will your company be ready? CFOs from smart companies share insights into how they developed great contingency plans.
- Picking Up the Pieces – Steering a company in difficult times takes special talent, but picking up the pieces after a major downturn is even more of a challenge. How would you transform the finance function in the first six months? A panel of CFOs – leaders in financial reporting and corporate governance – shares their secrets.
- The Long Tales: Pooling Our Knowledge to Build Better Businesses – Three simultaneous roundtable discussions, each moderated by a Forbes editor, focus on costs, strategy and staffing, discussing some issues that keep CFOs up at night.
- Special Interview: The CFO's Best Friend – Or Worst Nightmare – with Stephen L. Snyder, Esq.
- Getting a Foot in the Door: Navigating the Politics and Bureaucracies of India and China – Knowing how to deal with complex politics, vast cultural differences and bureaucratic red tape can mean the difference between saving money and losing money. CFOs whose companies have made the journey share experiences and lessons learned.
- Aetna on managing data and costs.
