Vaibhav Taneja: The New CFO of Tesla
CEO Insider
AUGUST 16, 2023
Vaibhav Taneja, aged 45, from India, will be taking on the role of Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in addition to his current position as Chief Accounting Officer.
The hottest finance trend in business today may be what your business needs
CEO Insider
OCTOBER 19, 2021
Fractional Chief Financial Officers (CFO) are in high demand these days. A fractional CFO is a highly qualified business finance professional that your company can hire on a part-time basis. The post The hottest finance trend in business today may be what your business needs appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
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Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success
HR Digest
JULY 8, 2022
The one thing that will majorly influence the fate of CFO aspirants is their tech skills. According to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs in November 2020, digital investments topped CFO agendas. Being comfortable with data, technology, and cross-disciplinary collaboration was crucial to the success of CFO candidates.
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Eli Lilly CFO resigns over misconduct in workplace
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Anat Ashkenazi, previously senior vice president, controller and chief financial officer of Lilly Research Laboratories, has been named as his successor and will now be the next CFO. Smiley was appointed the CFO in 2018. She was in charge of the finances of the company’s commercial unit and some other departments. ” . .
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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity
N2Growth Blog
JULY 25, 2022
A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company. The CFO candidate might get by with only a broad sector experience in manufacturing, finance, or technology. You will subconsciously know when a candidate is CEO material.
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Overpaid CEOs a Huge Red Flag for Company Stability, Shareholder Advocacy Group Says
HR Digest
APRIL 10, 2022
According to a report by As You Sow , a shareholder advocacy firm, 2021 saw a significant increase in shareholder rejections of CEO pay packages. More than half of shareholders rejected CEO pay packages at 16 companies last year, up from ten in 2020 and seven in 2019.
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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
In the CEO Afterlife. Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip. 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. Ultimately, it is the CEO who determines the corporate culture, whether good or bad. Leadership.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance Leadership Announces New Executive Team
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
The updates to the Walgreens executive team were announced by CEO Tim Wentworth who also took up the position at the company quite recently, appointed in October 2023. Healthcare WBA unit joined Walgreens Boots Alliance after acting as CEO of Solera Health since 2020, moving from her role of independent board director.
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Why HR and the CEO Should Be Joined at the Hip
LDRLB
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
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. Ultimately, it is the CEO who determines the corporate culture, whether good or bad. Today, with declining loyalty and greater job hopping, it is critical that CEOs partner with HR.
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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team
Chart Your Course
JANUARY 13, 2017
Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If your CFO is doing something financially shady, SOX says that he is either doing it with you or to you.
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7 Guiding Principles for Developing Leadership Talent
Leading Blog
JUNE 13, 2011
And no one needs to understand that more than the CEO. Your talent assessment/development systems should have as much “rigor and repeatability as systems used for finance and operations.” The HR function will only be as strong as the CEO wants it to be. Elevate it to the same level as the CFO. It is a process.
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Avon CEO Andrea Jung Takes Seat on Apple's Board :: Women on Business
Women on Business
JANUARY 8, 2011
NASDAQ: APPL ) has named Andrea Jung , CEO of Avon  (NYSE: AVP ), as the eigth member of its board of directors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. Andrea Jung is the first woman and the first Asian to hold a seat on Apple’s board.Â
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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? Or the CEO who shares her password with her husband and children so they can access her mail and messaging accounts.
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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 22, 2010
Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself. They will believe what they want to believe regardless of what they hear or what they observe.
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Unemotional Leadership—an Oxymoron
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. Andrew Cravenho is the CEO of CBAC Funding, an innovative invoice finance company.
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You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 29, 2010
The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization.
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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2016
Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. This critical alliance needs and deserves much greater analysis and application.
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Leadership and Product Management
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 6, 2010
Accounting/Finance: This group is often completely ignored by product management. Smart product managers know the value of having allies in the CFO’s office. The same holds true for the CEO and executives at smaller companies. At the end of the day, if the product doesn’t make money, nothing else matters.
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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business
Women on Business
JANUARY 17, 2011
CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,
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When It Pays to Think Like a Finance Manager
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2015
If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. To get the green light, it helps to understand how finance people think. Finance & Accounting Tool.
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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions
Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Non-profit CEOs. Mark Tercek – President and CEO, Nature Conservancy – world leader in global conservation.
Who New CEOs Fire First
Harvard Business Review
JULY 8, 2013
New research by RHR international shows which executives incoming CEOs are likely to replace, and highlights some differences between first-time CEOs and more seasoned chief executives. Your survey showed that as much as CEOs had shaken up their senior team, looking back on it they wished they''d moved even faster. It could be.
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Who’s Better at Strategy: CFOs or CSOs?
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2016
Thirty years ago, strategy was the CEO’s job. The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate.
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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 30, 2017
This week Uber took a major step toward righting the ship with the choice of Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business.
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12 CEOs: Don't Sabotage Your Successors
Marshall Goldsmith
DECEMBER 6, 2010
A CEO asked me to coach his potential successor, the CFO. It didn't take long before I just felt that the CEO just didn't like the CFO. I brought it to his attention: "I just don't think you like the CFO." the CEO told me. I don't care if he becomes the CEO or not. That's right: It was the CEO.
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118 How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2016
This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. No one has done more to spotlight the contrast than Laurence Fink, the CEO of BlackRock. Redefining the CFO role. For CEOs, creating and communicating long-term growth strategy is easier said than done.
IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. They had suspected all along that IT really doesn''t matter.
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8 What It Will Take to Fix HR
Harvard Business Review
JULY 29, 2014
In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.
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CMOs, Build a Relationship with Your CFOs
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 6, 2013
But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). Agree on the dashboard. If someone has data, let's look at that."
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8 How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite
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. CEO Chemistry.
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How One CMO Revamped Her Role
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2018
About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CEO, grinning, agreed with her. Don Farrall/Getty Images. What came next was a pleasant surprise.
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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. I’m the CFO and he’s in charge of sales.
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13 Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 8, 2018
The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.
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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2014
The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. Communication Finance Getting buy-in' Are today’s investors really that horrible? Short answer: no.
Avoiding Catastrophic Failures in Process Improvement
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 6, 2011
Two years after that, the CEO was gone and the reengineering program was defunct. Process champions must have them ready for the day when the CEO or CFO effectively says, "Show me the money.". Engage the finance organization. Finance was on board at the company in our story. What happened?
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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
” In finance, for example, that might mean believing — based on no evidence — that only MBA graduates from an elite university are likely to succeed at their jobs. The company’s CFO asked a crowd of the company’s most accomplished finance leaders to raise their hand if they had attended an Ivy League school.
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12 How Industrial Firms Invest in Renewable Energy, Affordably
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2016
Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. To do this, they have mostly used power purchasing agreements (PPAs) to buy their clean power. Get early buy-in.
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8 The Shape of the Meaning Organization
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 4, 2011
Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.
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15 The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2015
The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership.
Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 25, 2014
Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen.
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How to Kill Quarterly Earnings Guidance
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2014
But these concerns can be mitigated with the proper strategy for shifting away from earnings guidance, and by replacing it with integrated reporting. To build a sustainable business that will succeed in the long-term you must seek backing from market participants who are aligned with this vision.
The Game Buyers Play with Vendors
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2012
The potential customer's VP of finance contacted Bill and asked him to prepare a proposal for a multimillion-dollar initiative. Throughout the process, Bill was never allowed to meet with the decision maker, the CFO. The chemical firm's CEO asked her to prepare a bid for a new production line that the buyer needed to install quickly.
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13 Getting Past a Career Setback: An Example and a Test
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. She made her case for regaining the team to the CEO and several other executives, but soon discovered that while all were happy with her work, no one wanted to intervene or offer her a different role.
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