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Overpaid CEOs a Huge Red Flag for Company Stability, Shareholder Advocacy Group Says

HR Digest

For each of As You Sow’s yearly reports dating back to 2015, the shareholder advocacy nonprofit discovered that CEO remuneration does not often connect with prior stock return success, and that instead, companies with the 100 most overpaid CEOs underperformed the equal-weighted average S&P 500 company.

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Accenture to lay-off 25,000 low performers

HR Digest

Accenture CFO KC McClure stated that “when emerged out of the last financial crisis, Accenture invested in market share, and as we look into a long term future, we will have a tremendous opportunity for all over the long term by staying closer to our clients.” In 2019, the company earned revenues of a whopping $43.2

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Steps in a Buying Decision

Strategy Driven

meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). Majority decides to use vendors to do all the work rather than in house, but need buy-in from CFO. some group members prepare a presentation to convince CFO to use outside supplier and add new capability. meeting set up with the CFO and full BDT to present your findings and needs.

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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way

Harvard Business Review

The abridged version is that Palmisano and then-CFO Mark Loughridge came up with what they called the “investor model” or the “road map” — a strategic plan complete with multi-year goals for investment, revenue growth, and earnings growth that they asked investors to judge them by.

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The Best Retailers Combine Bricks and Clicks

Harvard Business Review

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” Looking only at that 15.2 Their data show that only 0.8

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

GE has been steadily reducing its ratio of SG&A expense from 18% in 2011 to a targeted 12% in 2016, and in fall 2015 CEO Jeff Immelt told CNBC he planned to take out $1 billion in costs in the next two years on slightly declining revenues. ” When she sensed that the experts were not listening to each other, she intervened.

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How AI Helped One Retailer Reach New Customers

Harvard Business Review

By 2015, RedBalloon was delivering more than four million customers to businesses across Australia and New Zealand that offered “experiences.” Albert’s results have been so impressive to date that Simson is now encouraging RedBalloon’s CFO to think in a very different way about the marketing budget.

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