Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

There are many different job opportunities in the accounting field that range from entry-level jobs to executive positions. If you work in the field long enough, you can go from a staff accountant to an executive position such as a CFO. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Cost Accountant Manager. Controller.

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CFO Career Chief Financial Officer Finance 66

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

The problem is: many hiring managers just don’t know how to evaluate external recruiters. The Common Approach – and Why it Doesn’t Really Work When evaluating external recruiters, most hiring managers start by asking: “how many placements have you made in our industry?” But it’s not as good a question as it seems on first glance.

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Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. They need to be tech experts, navigating your cloud contact center , social media and customer management systems.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

If you’re in charge of your organization’s training, talent management, succession planning, or HR function, when’s the last time you talked to your C-level executives about leadership development? Current manager’s leadership development needs: How prepared are our managers to achieve these goals or address these challenges?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation. This kind of resistance is possible across different levels of the enterprise, from upper management to rank-and-file banking staff.

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Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 70

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?

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Chief Financial Officer CFO Proposal Long-term 8

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. The CFO and GC determine together whether the cost of a particular voluntary global standard is amenable to hard financial analysis (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

This has become a favorite management insight as I advise bosses and boards. In one recent case, the chief financial officer of a small company was fired for possible expense account violations, and he was also seen as a poor strategist and weak team player. The task for everyone else is not to let them.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

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. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. Wilson went on to be COO of The Gap Inc.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. As a result, when making close calls on the company’s financial reports, that auditor may be too deferential to Nissan management.

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Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. Consciously or unconsciously, couples adopt strategies for managing the demands of each career plus a shared domestic life. Be willing to experiment.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Cooper Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

So we relied on a setting where firms faced an unexpected competitive shock, one that directors could not have anticipated and selected specific CEOs to manage it, and one that forced CEOs to make complex, non-routine, and unstructured decisions — decisions where CEOs’ characteristics are likely to affect how they respond.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

The general counsel is now a core member of the top management team and offers advice not just on law and related matters but helps shape discussion and debate about business issues. It is thus no surprise that the quality of general counsel has risen dramatically over the past two decades.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. So why did Enron go bankrupt? Was it because of the fraud, or was there another reason?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

And according to a survey by Network World magazine, only about one in eight tech managers 30 years old or younger had hired anyone over 40 during the previous year. The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For instance, you can outsource a chief financial officer that can offer advice to the company on how to best improve their profitability. First, the manager should consider whether or not they were clear about their expectations. Give them positive feedback, and most importantly, listen to what they have to say.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

From the outset, all three men viewed themselves as serving in multiple roles: founder, custodian, brand manager, chief financial officer, recruiter, and head of consumer insights. You either go out of business or you evolve into a different position.” They operated on shoestrings. Everything changes.

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