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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife. Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip. by John • September 6, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership • 1 Comment. The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. Leadership.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” A connected world is a transparent world.

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Case Study: Should a Female Director “Tone It Down”?

Harvard Business Review

Offutt, the CEO, had named a time when they could meet. In Sarah’s opinion, the problem was obvious: Sid Yerby, the CFO. The young and inexperienced CEO confessed that he often felt uncomfortable asking tough questions of the CFO, an industry veteran who was 10 years his senior. had grown distant. Two weeks earlier, J.P.