Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 13, 2014

Fortune 500 firms with the most female board members outperform those with the least by 26% on return on invested capital and 16% on return on sales, according to a 2011 Catalyst study. . Yet the number of women at the top is barely budging: some 5% of Fortune 500 chief executive officers and 17% of board members. “If

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HR Digest

MAY 14, 2022

On May 11, Moderna announced that its Chief Financial officer will be leaving the company after spending just one day in office. formerly ModeRNA Therapeutics, was founded in 2011 and primarily focuses on developing mRNA vaccines. The Moderna Success Story. Moderna Inc.,

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2011

Nearly 13% of chief financial officers, chief marketing officers, and other C-level executives say that having input into company decisions is their top reason to stay with a company, according to the survey. Source: The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2011. According to the survey, 4.7%

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Google acquired Motorola Mobility in 2011 for a better than 60-percent premium, and Brown remained as chair and CEO of Motorola Solutions, overseeing its 23,000 employees and $8 billion in annual revenue. Amply rewarded for their activism, Icahn and his allies exited the boardroom, but a new activist investor soon came knocking.

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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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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