Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. If you are creating a technology empire, you will need a customer care department. Customer Service Rep.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

CEO Insider

JULY 30, 2023

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around.” – Steve Jobs How very true and seemingly evident Steve Job’s observation is.

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Magazine Technology Chief Financial Officer Merchandising 98

HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in an email, “Every Google office is affected in some way. Technology has advanced far enough to enable companies and workers to continue functioning effectively even when people are unable to be physically present in office locations.

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Chief Financial Officer Globalization CEO Advice 82

HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

The top managers are the C-suite managers and carry the titles of chiefs-- the chief executive office, the chief financial officer, the chief marketing manager, the chief operational manager, and the chief technology manager. Their role is to convey top-down management.

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Management Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 87

CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For better and sometimes for worse, the pandemic has provided companies across the business landscape with a technology reality check, followed in many cases by a realization that the generic, one-size-fits-all software on which they had been depending […].

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CRM Company Magazine Software 98

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The technology sector experienced unprecedented growth in 2020 and 2021, but this year has proven that growth was inevitably going to slow. Global recession is looming, and governments are doing everything they can to support local businesses. But cross-border e-commerce growth is still possible with the right tools and mindset.

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Uncertainty Globalization Magazine Tools 52

CEO Insider

AUGUST 9, 2022

In reference to this, does anyone who has access to a computer or a reasonably recent mobile device really yearn for the “good old days?” Can most visualize making decisions on what to sell, who to sell stuff to and how best to do that without being immersed entirely in the wonderful world of research? […]. The post SOPHISTICATED RESEARCH?

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Magazine Reference Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 98

CEO Insider

DECEMBER 14, 2022

‘Tis the season for reflection – a time to learn, grow and appreciate all that’s good in this one precious life of ours. As I look back on the past year, it’s easy to point out where I could have done more, how I could have done better, or whether I served the people I […].

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Power Magazine Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming. Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […].

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Magazine Marketing Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 52

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Ideally, security executives should attend board meetings in the same way that a chief financial officer would. Focus as much on culture as technology. The Human Element of Cybersecurity. Sponsored by Varonis. Shore up your company’s first line of defense.

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CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Long-term 8

Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

While working for a large, rapidly expanding non-profit, I was tasked with upgrading the organization’s technology. Adding to the challenge was an already understaffed technology department, supporting antiquated technology. My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Technology 185

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

What they said didn't really apply to us." —Chief Financial Officer. With that said, I never want to buy the highest priced solution." —Vice President of Technology. "We are a skeptical group, and they lost the deal during their presentation. Poor Pre-sales Resources. Losing is always hard.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. The latter was a capable strategist with relevant insight into digital technologies — the most pressing strategic issue for the company at that time. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales. Setting such standards involves nuanced balancing of the interests of the corporation and the rights of—and duties to—stakeholders. In most major U.S.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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Report GAAP Company Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. One of the headhunter-experts I talked to for that project was Ann Carlsen , a recruiter in telecommunications and technology based in Boulder, Colorado. Consider the industry. She was bracingly blunt.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Information & technology Leadership' Over the past 30 years, most companies have added new C-level roles in response to changing business environments.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Founded in 1928, Motorola diversified over the decades from car radios into a host of communication technologies, ranging from equipment aboard Apollo 11 to the best-selling RAZR mobile phones. Brown conducted the due diligence required of a director candidate. A partner with ValueAct, Bradley E. Singer came on the board in October 2012.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Radio was still a new technology but had been rapidly adopted by farmers. A few years ago I was working with a global company that was trying to engage Chief Financial Officers. The notion of using learning to strengthen customer relationships is not a new one. In 1920-21 farmers were hard hit by deflation.

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CIO Chief Financial Officer White Paper Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

We need to move beyond pilots, though, to really being able to take advantage of the technology, and there are a lot of regulatory and bureaucratic hurdles that make that hard. All of those have a financial plus side to them, but more importantly, the top doctors and researchers are attracted to that kind of atmosphere.

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CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

technology companies — that use China as a source of assembly, semi-manufactures or components have an additional vulnerability: their value chain. national security concerns because they incorporate Chinese technology into their end products. technology company needs. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images.

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Chief Financial Officer NGO Technology Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2018

The arrest of Meng Wanzhou , chief financial officer of China’s Huawei, by Canadian police upon the request for extradition by the U.S. It has been the beneficiary of extensive government subsidies, contracts, protection, and, some say, government-sponsored hacking of foreign technology companies and of the U.S.

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Influence Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Taylorism 9