Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet. 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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. Meanwhile, fly-by-night operations can sometimes get lucky – as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing. When you ask leaders how they build a strong management team, the answers are revealing. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time. The financial targets are far easier to set but also far less useful as a tool to help managers achieve them. But the tight-fisted approach winds up being wasteful, and there is a better way.

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Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

And when everyday crankiness is exacerbated by performance problems, then the merely grumpy can become disgruntled former employees out to do damage to the team. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. For those who live in the Bay Area, they can work from the office, if they’d like. We pay a standard rate of $25 per hour, regardless of whether you’re applying to be an engineer or the chief financial officer.

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Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

When news broke recently that Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital was teaming with Berkshire Hathaway to buy Heinz for $28 billion, some people noted that the deal marked a resurgence in M&A activity. They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. This is their only purpose.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. 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

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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

What resources do you have to get something fixed?" —Chief Operating Officer. What they said didn't really apply to us." —Chief Financial Officer. The complex sales process is typically a team-related sales effort that involves pre-sales product and consulting experts.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

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. Over the past 30 years, most companies have added new C-level roles in response to changing business environments.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

When news broke recently that Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital was teaming with Berkshire Hathaway to buy Heinz for $28 billion, some people noted that the deal marked a resurgence in M&A activity. They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. This is their only purpose.

Globalization 8

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 8

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. From the company point of view, building up a first-class inside team has two striking benefits. In these, financial incentives are aligned (i.e.,

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Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Meet your inner negotiation team. Since I advise a lot of businesses, I sometimes describe the Big Four as a top team, occupying your internal executive suite. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker. or "Am I a Warrior?",

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

The really complex patients require a team, not just the physician and the physician specialists, but also the nurses, the social workers, the child life specialists. Now, when a kid comes in for a procedure or a visit, the team will have been educated about autism. I knew I had to get a top chief financial officer.

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