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. This post is adapted from a talk by the author at the December 2013 Lean Startup Conference. . During the trials, we give the applicants actual work. Talent and the New World of Hiring.

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Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier. He had earlier served as chief financial officer of two publicly-traded companies—Discovery Communications and American Tower Corporation—and would bring additional financial experience on capital allocation.

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Hostile Takeover Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Charan 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

And then there was the person at the top – the Chief Financial Officer in this case, to whom we eventually wrote a letter (just at the point, as it happened, when the money finally arrived). This post is part of a series of perspectives leading up to the fifth annual Global Drucker Forum in November 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

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Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8