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In today’s show Lorraine Chilvers discusses the foundations of ethics in business from her real-life experiences of 20 years inside Fortune 500 companies.  She discusses her experiences as an executive of WorldCom leading a significant portion of the company’s financial restatement, the largest fraud and bankruptcy in the world. She discusses the foundations of ethics. . . and breaks it down into a framework of three components: “the Law”; “moral standards” and “appropriate behavior”, evaluating each one in turn.  She uses as the basis for this discussion presentations as a guest lecturer to leading universities, including Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.  Some of the anecdotes may surprise you!  Listen in as the host of CFOradio, Lorraine Chilvers, discusses some of the world’s worst examples of leadership and how such forms of leadership can be successful.

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In today’s show Melissa Beard discusses her passion, a non-profit organization established in 2001 by Doctors Bob Malkin and Mohammad Kiani, with the aim of improving the technological infrastructure in hospitals in the developing world and ensuring access to modern health care.  Today, Engineering World Health (EWH) is the largest organization in the world dedicated to post donation medical equipment repair, maintenance, and training.  Melissa describes the socio-financial impact derived from the organization’s programs in African countries.  EWH’s programs provide an on-the-job educational and working forum for engineering students to travel abroad and provide technology solutions in parts of the world where teaching is not available to the masses.  You will learn how low cost / low tech solutions can benefit technicians and patients in these resource-poor countries.  Listen as Melissa describes how the students can derive highly ingenious solutions even from the most basic of available resources, such as re-tooling a beer bottle lid into a heart-monitor solution.

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In today’s show  CFOradio’s host, Lorraine Chilvers, talks about Systems Implementations, the top reasons they fail and lessons learned.  We are using as the basis for this presentation two articles: The first article, “Top 10 Reasons Why Systems Projects Fail,” from  www.Harvard.edu, is written by Dr. Paul Dorsey.  The second article “An Investigation of Statutory Internal Control Requirements and Information Flow of the Computer Based Data Processing System at XYZ Ltd,” is written by Lorraine Chilvers.  Listen in as the host of CFOradio, Lorraine Chilvers, discusses her experiences – as steering committee leader and project manager, she has managed technology implementations of SAP, Oracle, Hyperion, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft.

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In today’s show, Tony Mitchell describes his path to being the CFO of a $1.5 billion company which is a subsidiary of one of the top twelve largest companies in the world, Compass PLC. From his early career with a Big 8 CPA firm and also being the CFO of two securities broker/dealer firms, Tony’s path led him to the food industry. He speaks of the challenges facing today’s CFO, needing to learn the “business” and motivating your finance staff. He also talks about being acquired by one of the largest companies in the world, and how successful this partnership has been, ten years running.

Join us on CFOradio.com as Tony Mitchell explores the aspects of being a CFO and leading the “business” and “people” of finance.

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