Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

Successful companies establish a product management/marketing role (or group), empower them with the ability to make decisions, and hold them accountable for their actions. — The Product Management Perspective: As a product manager, do you feel responsible for the success of your company?

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Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

And, I had to wonder, how motivating did Colleen Johnston, CFO, TD Bank Financial Group find that comment? Share this: This entry was posted in Leadership , Authenticity and tagged Ed Clark CEO TD Bank , Colleen Johnston CFO TD Bank Financial , walking the talk , lack of authenticity , womens advancement. Happy leading!

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. Not unlike the destruction of trust brought about by megalomaniacal divas is the damage that Wall Street banks can cause to companies, or to the economy in general, as in the 2008 meltdown.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Roundtable Talk

MARCH 12, 2010

Why rock the apple cart and give Ricardo some coaching on better ways of managing his sideways relationships?? The CFO, who is the named successor for the Prez, is Ricardo’s #1 detractor. So, what bridges do you need to repair today? Happy leading! Bookmark the permalink. ← Who’s race are you running?

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Career CFO Blog Godin 34

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both.

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CFO How To CIO Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It's difficult to get senior executives who have been successful managing a particular way to realize that they need to change their approach. As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key.

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Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

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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Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

BlueArc was venture-funded, but in 2008 VC money was getting hard to find. BlueArc’s devices were high-end, but its management believed it needed a mid-priced product to get it through the recession. BlueArc’s CFO, Rick Martig, and other executives gathered market data to support the investment in the mid-tier data storage product.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. 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.

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P&L Globalization CFO Operations 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

JANUARY 9, 2013

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. Anything they spot is reported directly, in writing, to Greenberg and a few other executives, including CFO Howard Smith.

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Insurance Long-term Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. He had to sell the idea to both his family and the other managers at work. That was in 2008. “We all wanted to do work and life differently,” DeGroot told me.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

As part of this research, we conducted 120 interviews, including nine with board members and 19 with top managers. Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. Practice #1: Increase trust by defining new conversational norms.

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Strategy Analysis Operations CFO 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings.

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Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. North America Sees Lowest Levels of Employee Engagement since 2008 Canadian HR Reporter, May 2013. Employee Engagement in Tough Times Management Issues, October 2009. Three Ways to Actually Engage Your Employees HBR Blog Network, June 2014.

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Article CFO Magazine Library 100

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. The chart below tracks McDonald’s distributions to shareholders from 1979. The winners.

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Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

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. Although Nestle's consumers and "shoppers," as they are referred to, were about 80% female, only 3% of managers in the company's leadership pipeline were women.

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Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

You used to be able to track everything with an Excel spreadsheet, personally designed by your CFO; now you’ve got an SAP installation in its place, supported by an entire IT department. He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. Bottlenecks appear.

Company 9

Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

However, their contribution to the world’s 11th-largest economy is overshadowed by repeated cases of bribery, weak corporate governance, and complicated shareholding plans that help the families accumulate wealth and inherit management. Andrew Fastow, the former CFO, was sentenced to six years in prison. financial crisis.

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Reputation Crisis Loyalty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

The apparition of 2008 returns once more. And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. Why were red flags ignored by senior managers in CIO and in the firm?

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Report CIO Crisis Committee 8