Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

They should have a network in place and a positive reputation among potential candidates. 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.

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

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. Also worth explaining to your colleagues is that the tech will put you in a highly competitive position: that of an early adopter.

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Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 70

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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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

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 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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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. Rob, meanwhile, negotiated a position that kept his schedule calm during tax season. Can they renegotiate? Mid-Career Crisis.

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. I never would have though, given my family’s financial position at the time.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Technology 185

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

We replicated our analysis for the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of each bank and other members of the top management team, but we did not find a relationship between their cultural heritage and firm performance. This confirmed the role of the CEO as the most important decision-maker in a bank.

Banking 9

Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 9

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.,

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 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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