Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

After all, no company wants to become the next brand on the front page of the Wall Street Journal or have their executives testify in front of Congress. Shore up your company’s first line of defense. Ideally, security executives should attend board meetings in the same way that a chief financial officer would.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Why is that some companies have great heads of strategy who make an outstanding contribution to their companies while others don’t? The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Shore up your company’s first line of defense. The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. And the chief financial officer is looking at the potential financial impact.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

In virtually every country across the globe, a broad range of governmental and ethical issues directly and immediately shape what companies can and cannot do. CEO acumen on business-in-society issues is thus imperative in addressing fundamental corporate issues, from business strategy to compliance to ethical standards to risk management.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Over the past 30 years, most companies have added new C-level roles in response to changing business environments. The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Six top-team tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Over 4,000 companies have corporate universities. Their purpose is to instill the company’s vision and values and cultivate critical skills and competencies. There are competencies inside of companies that would be of value to those on the outside. Companies everywhere are looking for new ways of engaging customers.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

But as we have suggested elsewhere, activists are here to stay , and are increasingly prominent players on the equity landscape—sometimes even inside the company boardroom. More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. A partner with ValueAct, Bradley E.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I used to work in the red-hot center of one of the most youth-oriented companies on the planet, Nickelodeon. An obsession with youth is not a phenomenon unique to a company like MTV Networks, focused on programming for people under 30. In California companies, "people over 40 are out to pasture." I should know.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World.

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