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. So, when Clark is quoted as predicting that a woman will eventually head up a bank… in about TWENTY years time, I did a double take. And, that’s my rant for today.

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Called ‘The Academy Awards of Leadership’ by the Economist, Thinkers50 is the world’s most reliable resource for identifying, ranking and sharing the leading management ideas of our age. Has been recognized as the World’s #1 Leadership Thinker. President Dartmouth College.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. moravecglobal Here's another example of disconnected leadership and the consequences for, in this case, students, faculty and taxpayers.

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Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

His Harvard classmates, who sought jobs at big consulting firms and investment banks, thought he was crazy. In 2000 he accepted a job as CFO at start-up Rackspace. His visionary and energetic leadership helped the company grow, and in 2006 he became CEO. "If I'm an idiot, you can fire me." But Napier had something else in mind.

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CEO Development CFO Banking 90

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

” Yet business leaders who took the CHRO role, including Quinn, report it is the most impactful role in their career, and many would not accept an organizational leadership position that didn’t come with the CHRO role. Of course, they haven’t had a chance to think it through, but that’s the first reaction.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Oka had found feedback from US regulators very helpful in his efforts to revive Union Bank and saw an opportunity to do something similar at Nikon.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. How well are those efforts reported to your investors? Outside the U.S., Largely unnoticed in the U.S.,

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Banks are feeling the crunch; according to McKinsey , legacy financial institutions will see profits decline 20%–60% by 2025 if they fail to evolve digitally. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

With a strong, competent, and independent chair able to step in and assume responsibility (and possibly act as interim CEO), a company in a crisis that destroys its leadership is better placed to navigate the storm. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S. Take the case of BP.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The team’s historical approach to finding top talent had been simple — target graduates of top universities and MBA programs with experience at leading management consulting firms or investment banks. In reality, many of the top performers at Intuit, including the CEO and CFO, did not hold degrees from an Ivy League school.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. These intangible factors like culture, leadership, and motivation do not yield easily to empirical analysis. Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

“I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. When she discovered the bank didn’t have a paid family leave policy, a word to the CEO changed that. “I learned I needed to speak up. ” None of this is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Imagine you're a major bank. Would you want to start a Facebook page and let anyone weigh-in with what they thought of you, and of banking in general? Central in all HDS thought leadership efforts are customer stories. "If But what many see as a threat is actually a major opportunity. Here's how: Get your experts out front.

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How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Sena Aslan, the CEO of FDM Turkey, wished the drive from the Ankara airport to the bank’s largest branch were a bit longer. She had made site visits a hallmark of her short tenure at the company’s helm, because they helped her see how frontline employees were weathering the changes she’d been spearheading across the bank.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I could be CFO," confessed one female executive with particularly strong credentials, "but I'm happy right where I am.". We're looking to increase their visibility, encourage them to step into leadership roles, act as role models and not only increase but accelerate opportunities and advancement.".

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Prior to his academic career, he had been in the corporate world, holding a CFO position at a retailing and manufacturing company and working as the vice president and manager of the commercial lending division of a large bank. It showed him that Margaret was both thoughtful and serious about her career.

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P&L Committee Career Case Study 18

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Andrew Fastow, the former CFO, was sentenced to six years in prison. Admittedly, guilt culture showed little enthusiasm for criminally sanctioning executives involved in the 2008 banking crisis. Three former Anglo Irish Bank executives were sentenced to just a few years for conspiring to mislead investors, depositors, and lenders.

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