Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Inside Intel.

Finance 13

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

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. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

Blog 392

Blog Gordon CEO Consultative 392

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While focused on the specific need for this specific customer, we begin a broader look at the “Tissue Banking” industry and reached out to several other companies and organizations including Community Tissue Services in Dayton and the American Association of Tissue Banks. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

Marketing 8

Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

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.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Rick Jensen, who left a big job in marketing to become SVP, Chief Talent Officer at Intuit, recalled a lesson he learned in marketing: “Fall in love with the problem.” Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR.

Quinn 13

Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal.

Industry 13

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

Large companies rarely face this growth killer since most of them maintain deep cash reserves, have access to the financial markets, and possess the financial discipline to react long before a crash. Midsized companies need to be far more cash-conscious — even penurious — when their markets go sour. firm in 1989.

Crisis 8

Crisis CFO GAAP Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

While business markets are obviously different from societies in many ways, they share more things in common, especially in today's networked world. 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? Stop reacting — lead.

How To 12

How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

the movement to enhanced reporting is led by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), which is endorsed by regulatory heavy weight Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England. Deutsche Bank felt compelled to explain there was a good reason (in this case increased efficiency through e-learning). Outside the U.S.,

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

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.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Meanwhile, Dr. Piech was obsessed with achieving dominant global market share, which included a larger presence in the U.S. (Volkswagen group profits come largely from the sales of Porsche and Audi, the large bulk of other sales being not that profitable.)

CFO 8

CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

So why did one of the planet's biggest investment banks — and its 33,300 employees — hold out so long? Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. Employees, particularly those in the sales and marketing functions, need to know the rules of the road," Langford says.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. It can: Save Taxes.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

it's the behavior of industrial age institutions — corporations, banks, governments — that's the invisible fist of this great crisis. In the Meaning Organization, the nerve center wouldn't be marketing — but what you might call humanizing. So here's a thought. What are the habits of this whirling machine?

Organization 15

Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

bank observed that his organization had "a cultural indisposition to challenge" and that the task of "being a risk and compliance manager.felt a bit like being a man in a rowing boat trying to slow down an oil tanker.". First, CEO Jamie Dimon was widely acknowledged as the "ultimate chief risk officer of the bank."

Risk Management 9

Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. As with most PPAs, the contract was a critical asset for the energy developer to take, literally, to the bank to get financings. Get early buy-in. For Owens Corning, the locations matter. Seek advice on the accounting.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

While this would seem sufficient to alert the bank to his impending trip abroad, “transaction denied” flashes across the terminal screen, leaving this longtime customer stranded, fuming, and no longer so loyal. Once the drivers of the costs of the journey are understood, marketing can work with operations to address them.

COO 8

COO Planning Metrics Call Center 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

There is a permanent new dynamism and volatility in the job market, and the cost of experimentation has fallen dramatically. Imagine a marketing consultant — experienced in industries from farming to financial services — being asked to run a $200 million budget for a big bank.

Career 15

Career Long-term Christensen CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

So what you see is that criminals are going after health records because on the black market they can probably sell a health record of a person for about $50. If they only steal credit card data or a social security number, they might be able to sell that on the black market for $1. And then finally, Board-level involvement.

Health Care 8

Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Noski, former CFO of Bank of America. All have served at or near the pinnacle of company power, and they now bring that experience to judging who has the requisite skill-set to lead the world’s largest software maker in a fast-morphing market. Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate, and Charles H.

CEO 8

CEO Committee P&L Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Businesses, families, and individuals are ruined in shocking fashion—“150-year-old bank and pillar of Wall Street is gone in the blink of an eye”; “Major oil company loses $90 billion in market value in three months”; “Kite surfer tries his luck in a hurricane and slams into a building.” We’re reminded of them in the news every day.

COO 8

COO Short-term CFO Pharmaceuticals 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation.

Ries 8

Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2015

A seasoned CFO with a sharp mind and an abrasive style, Arthur had lost his job over a disagreement with his company’s new CEO. Each time we ponder, in essence, whether senior management, banking, consulting, entrepreneurship, and statesmanship are compatible with human life. He had not seen it coming and it struck hard.

Long-term 8

Long-term Loyalty Uncertainty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

This oft-heard defense of buybacks is clearly hollow: Once a CEO or CFO makes this claim, the company cannot sell the stock at a higher price for the benefit of the corporate treasury without signaling to traders that the stock is now over valued, something that no top executive would want to do. million in 2014 to a high of $12.6

Price 8

Price Franchising Short-term CFO 8

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.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

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.

Reputation 8

Reputation Crisis Loyalty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

The most common type of email attack is phishing, fraudulent emails purporting to be from a potentially relevant entity such as a shipping firm, major bank, or tax authority. What could they most readily monetize on the black market? These broad phishing attacks are not targeted. Whom do they work with?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain System CFO Operations 8