Editor's page.(dialogue with Ellen Heffes of Pulte Homes Inc.)(Interview)

Financial Executive, November, 2007 by Marshall, Jeffrey

Think of two of the biggest challenges facing any CFOs out there, and you might think of the housing industry and the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged New Orleans. Those are precisely the CFOs that Executive Editor Ellen Heffes interviewed for this issue's cover story: the CFO of Pulte Homes Inc., a major homebuilder, and the finance chief of the New Orleans school district. In extended interviews, FEI members Roger Creeg of Pulte and Stan Smith, a longtime FEI leader in the Gulf Coast region, talk about the issues they face and the strategies and tactics they have put in place to weather hard times.

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