July 18, 2012—Apologies to The Smiths, whose song, "Some Girls are Bigger than Others", came to mind when we started to contemplate a number of CFOs changing jobs this week. Here I risk dating myself a bit, but as a fan of The ...

June 27, 2011—We haven't footnoted Northrop Grumman (NOC) enough to truly call it a frequent flyer, but when the giant defense contractor appears in these virtual pages, it's usually a doozy. Most recently, there was the sweet retirement package ...

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June 3, 2011—Meet Irene M. Esteves. Last we heard, she was poised to become executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Time Warner Cable (TWC). We hedge that statement because, if this job is like others she's had recently, ...

February 2, 2011—Companies cut jobs in the name of saving money all the time. Companies also show top executives the door periodically. But rarely do we see a company let a top executive go explicitly as a cost-saving measure, particularly one as senior as ...

January 26, 2011—This morning, Xerox (XRX) reported an earnings decline thanks to restructuring, warned of worse-than-expected results for the coming year, and disclosed the departure of Lawrence Zimmerman, its chief financial officer of eight years. Together, the news has sent ...

December 22, 2010—Last December, Sprint Nextel Corporation (S) amended its employment agreement with CFO Robert Brust so that he'd stay put for a while after his agreement expired on May 1, 2010. Sprint wanted more time, it explained, to find and hire ...

October 22, 2010—News of the $1 million settlement Office Depot (ODP) has entered into with the Securities and Exchange Commission came with something of a wave of nostalgia for us here at the footnoted global campus. The feds, of course, accused ...

October 21, 2010—SUPERVALU Inc. (SVU) announced this summer that its chief financial officer of 13 years, Pamela Knous, would step down to pursue other career interests. With a name like SUPERVALU -- and with a chain named Shop 'N' Save, ...

October 15, 2010—It's been busy over at Chesapeake Energy (CHK), the winner last year of our annual worst footnote of the year contest: Teaming up with the Chinese, losing a chief financial officer (but gaining a joint-venture president), and even winning the ...