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.

Execution 14

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

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 organization replaced the budget with a quarterly forecasting and planning process. The new plan includes a rolling look back at the last eight quarters and a look forward at the next six.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

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.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

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.

CFO 15

CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 15

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. You and Your Team. Work-life balance Career planning' How will domestic work (which may detract from career building) be divided up? Can they renegotiate?

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Cooper Resistance 8

Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The task was daunting, but we had an amazing team. My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals. However, a record of successes quickly built the organization’s confidence in our team. A replacement of such a critical tool would typically require months of planning alone.

CFO 185

CFO Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Technology 185

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

To begin, you want to be very clear about your starting point and desired destination on that development journey — an obvious item that’s often missing from a development plan. It’s a practical planning document that describes how you will produce the highest-performing you. Determine Your From/To.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We pay a standard rate of $25 per hour, regardless of whether you’re applying to be an engineer or the chief financial officer. So it’s a system we plan to keep utilizing. The aphorism is true: You can’t manage your way out of a bad team. During the trials, we give the applicants actual work.

Chief Financial Officer 12

Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term 12

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.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

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.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 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.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

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.

Chief Financial Officer 8

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