Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

It’s vital that companies manage their impact on the planet , and most are willing to invest at some level in sustainability initiatives. But with myriad choices for how to do so, and long lists of stakeholders to please, managers struggle with a basic question: How do we decide which projects to green-light? Sustainability'

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Chief Financial Officer CFO Proposal Long-term 8

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. As the CMO, I can say that a big part of trusting Gene (CFO) was that he not only demonstrated a passion for marketing, but a genuine interest in helping our department with his finance expertise.

CFO 8

CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2011

A few months ago, a former client called me in a panic : Her CFO wanted to start several process simplification projects immediately — and she needed a proposal to review with him the next day. We then waited to hear from our client about next steps — and continued to wait.

CFO 15

CFO Crisis Proposal Finance 15

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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CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Splitting HR is also dangerous and counterproductive, but proposing it also points to the truth by vividly showing the challenge and importance of making leaders more sophisticated about HR and talent (talent includes human-centered capabilities, engagement, motivation, values and organization design).

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Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

So be sure you’re in good standing with your manager before making the request. And try to “imagine how your boss will hear your proposal.” ” Consider what will worry your manager, and then think of ways to preempt those concerns. Your proposal should be simple and straightforward, Dillon says.

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Proposal How To Case Study Motivation 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our work with clients across dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO/CFO partnerships develop when both parties undertake five actions: 1. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

“I’m absolutely convinced that the evolving balance of the top management team is a key factor in our success and our ability to change,” Feike Sijbesma, the 57-year-old CEO of Royal DSM, the $8 billion, global company active in health, nutrition and materials science, told me. What indicators will you track?

Diversity 8

Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

The proposal was not immediately welcomed by the companies who anticipated all sorts of problems with contracts, arrangements and equity. He spent two years as the CFO of power and automation company ABB, from 2002 to 2004, before returning to Shell as CFO. The main driver for me was to be CFO of a quoted company.

CFO 8

CFO Leadership Development Telecommunications Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

An unusual — and unusually rich — funding opportunity inspired researchers at MIT and several other top-tier research institutions to improvise a comprehensive multi-media proposal on a tight deadline. observed that technology had fundamentally changed how America''s special operations command managed its special forces warriors.

Media 8

Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Vera’s Perspective.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

More than a thousand crappy ideas proposed.”. As important as the volunteers were to BrainGame, they were an opinionated group­ and weren’t always easy to manage. He explained that his team was spending close to half its time responding to volunteers’ new game proposals. She proposed hiring 15 to 20 new engineers.

Company 9

Company CFO Proposal Engineering 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. cybersecurity) create two notable challenges for the modern board.

Benchmarking 10

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

A week from now, I’d like a proposal for how to get back to 12 minutes, if not down to 10. But not ever as fast as the manager wants!” ” “Where is the manager?” The manager says I’m the only one she trusts with the toilets.” ” Then he quickly turned serious. It gets better.

Case Study 8

Case Study Airlines COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

I listened in this morning as Apple CEO Tim Cook and CFO Peter Oppenheimer explained what they're planning to do with Apple's $98 billion in cash (pay a $2.65 corporations, through growth of their overseas operations and increasingly aggressive tax management, have already dramatically reduced their U.S. tax burden. corporations.

GDP 12

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The success of an activist strategy is contingent upon placing a management team in an extremely reactive, frenzied and compromising position. Because by the time the activist has engaged senior management, they have already performed extensive due diligence on the company and have a detailed strategy they intend to pursue.

How To 8

How To Due Diligence Strategy Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Acutely aware of the competitive edges timely data offers sophisticated investors, the company's ever-entrepreneurial cofounder once proposed that Google launch a hedge fund. Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

This company has demonstrated a repeated pattern of 3- to 5-year cycles where it launches a change program, takes awhile for managers to get behind it, and then more time to get it funded. Some point to politics in the C-Suite, especially to competition between the COO and CFO. They blocked each other's progress.

Company 8

Company COO CFO Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. The management team was running short of patience for results and wanted me to help them bring changes to fruition. Process champions must have them ready for the day when the CEO or CFO effectively says, "Show me the money.".

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Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

She said, “We all managed to make time for our executive MBAs, while still doing our day jobs. He told me, “I found that building one’s personal brand increases chances to get proposals to join strategic initiatives and step out of your day-to-day job for a while.”. Career planning Leadership Managing yourself'

Porter 10

Porter Delegation Learning-by-Doing Project 10

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. To Build a Great Sales Team, You Need a Great Manager. Bill and a team spent several months preparing the bid.

Price 13

Price Chemicals Tactics CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

You’ve got an idea for a new product line, a way to revamp your inventory management system, or a piece of equipment that will make your work easier. Then the management team takes that number and decides on the discount rate, or hurdle rate, that you have to exceed to justify an investment,” he says. Babo Schokker.

Cost of Capital 8

Cost of Capital Cost Finance Discount 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction.

Consultative 8

Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

A week earlier, in an effort to close his budget deficit, Palacios had proposed a substantial tax increase on ash extracted from the islands, which is used in facial masks and other beauty products. Bennett, an operations manager, spoke up from the back of the room. territory for 15 years. What if we moved to another island?

Case Study 14

Case Study Press Release Proposal Cooper 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

But often, managing the business gets short shrift. The COO had proposed a new growth strategy, and the founder and his wife, in private, were wondering if the new COO was up to the job. The COO, CFO, and the chief engineer are convinced that the strategy needs to be focused around success in the sweet spot. Can you prove it?

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

We learned it through our experience with an internal contest — "PowerPitch" — in which we challenged everyone in the firm to submit a business brief proposing our next $100 million opportunity. We collaborated with our CFO to think through the budget and prize strategy. Getting the General Managers on Board.

Innovation 11

Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Instead of selling the streetlights and leaving the cities to manage them, the company would rent them out for a monthly fee, with installation, maintenance, and monitoring software all included. The board had unanimously approved the proposal from Cameron and his COO, Stacy Hamiko, to shift to that strategy. . They’re Back.

Case Study 8

Case Study Business Model CFO Software 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

We manage numbers because it's easier. We focus on stuff that matters, surely, but we are doing the thing of managing the measurable, rather than the meaningful. Management experts, marketplace results, and thorough research all proves that people are central to what we produce today and how well we can produce results.

Succession 15

Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. Generally speaking, firm management did not ensure proper controls and oversight at CIO as its trades became more complex and risky.

Report 8

Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When obscure financial instruments threaten the global economy, transparency is the proposed solution. Whether the questions raised are about police officers’ use of force, politicians’ use of email, or managers’ use of compensation, the answer is the same: more transparency. How to wield transparency effectively.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

” Jeff Weiss, a partner at Vantage Partners, a Boston-based consultancy specializing in corporate negotiations and relationship management, and author of the HBR Guide to Negotiating , agrees. The town had already rejected at least two vendors’ proposals before Haydock gave his pitch.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8