Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

The CFO owns a couple. An enterprise business model was developed that takes in all the processes across all the business areas. Processes are categorized by a Business Cycle (end to end business process) which are “owned&# by a majority of non-financial senior leaders. All Rights Reserved.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

When a CEO becomes a household name, that CEO may well need to get his own house in order. In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” That’s exactly what happened at Enron.

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Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

All interesting stuff, and easy to jump on a soapbox about, but, the quote that caught my eye came from Ed Clark, President & CEO of TD Bank Financial Group. Am I the only person who finds it odd that a CEO who supposedly is a giant champion of women is predicting it’s going to take TWO DECADES to get a woman to the top post.

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. And so here’s my cautionary point of this post… when Ricardo’s supportive boss swans off into retirement, who’s gonna have dear Ricardo’s back? adweekcdn #genesimmons 12 hours ago Every brand has to work hard to stay relevant.

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO. CEO Chemistry.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

And crisis it was in 2008, the same year the U.S. But when it did, they were able to loan MBH a combined $1 million during the firm’s liquidity crisis in December 2008. To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. The CFO couldn’t understand why. firm in 1989.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

What Greenberg hasn't been since 2005, though, is CEO of the company he ran for 37 years. But his bigger argument goes something like this: If Spitzer hadn't forced him out, he would have still been running the company in 2008, and it wouldn't have gotten into nearly the trouble that it did. Le entreprise, c'est moi.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

CEOs of midsized companies who make big bets can lose the farm. BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. BlueArc’s CFO, Rick Martig, and other executives gathered market data to support the investment in the mid-tier data storage product. Forecasting acumen.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk tweets that no one changed the world working 40 hours a week. ” In an interview, three CEOs rated as top performers by HBR said the job was 24/7 and admitted they weren’t great role models. That was in 2008. Dimitri Otis/Getty Images. But does it have to be that way?

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. FB Holdings had made it through the financial crisis of 2008 without losing money—but the climate control systems divisions, a Tier 1 automotive supplier, had not fared as well.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

When Paul Bulcke was appointed CEO of global food giant Nestle in 2008, he put the issue of women and gender at the top of his Executive Committee's agenda. I first met Nestle in 2008, shortly after Bulcke came on board. At the corporate level, the group CFO is a woman. Is Bulcke happy with the progress made? "I

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

At Hartwell Pacific, the global metal recycling company I founded in 1993 and exited in 2008, I was operating factories in six different cities in four countries, so developing an effective global management system was critical. One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. And now Immelt is now the ex-CEO, and Trian Partners just got a seat on the GE board. So What Is a CEO to Do? Then it wasn’t. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

Hansen, Herminia Ibarra, and Urs Peyer latest ranking of long-run CEO performance in HBR , Amazon's Jeff Bezos now ranks No. billion bond issue just before the debt-market meltdown of autumn 2008. In Morten T. 2, behind the late Steve Jobs, with an industry-adjusted shareholder return of 12,266% during his tenure. Nice timing, huh?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

As you can see, the company ramped up its buyback activity during the internet boom of the late 1990s and then again in the years preceding the financial crisis of late 2008 and 2009. In the period 2006 through 2014, the total pay of McDonald’s CEO varied from a low of $3.6 In 2014, when the pay of McDonald’s CEO was $6.4

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

The apparition of 2008 returns once more. These reports — one from a company task force and a second from a review committee of the board — were overshadowed by two items announced the same day: the related news that the bank board had slashed CEO Jamie Dimon's annual compensation in half — from $23 million in 2011 to $11.5

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

First, CEO Jamie Dimon was widely acknowledged as the "ultimate chief risk officer of the bank." But can effective risk management be sustained? During the global financial crisis, while several investment banks failed, JP Morgan was using a very different approach to risk management.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

For example, after the Enron scandal former CEO Kenneth Lay was convicted of fraud and conspiracy and received a 45-year sentence. Former president and CEO Jeffrey Skilling appealed to shorten his 24-year sentence. Andrew Fastow, the former CFO, was sentenced to six years in prison. financial crisis. Redemption in Shame Culture.

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