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

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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. 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

MARCH 12, 2012

And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. And according to a survey by Network World magazine, only about one in eight tech managers 30 years old or younger had hired anyone over 40 during the previous year. But workplace age discrimination is very, very hard to prove.

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