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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

The study looked at data from big companies in the S&P 1500 list from 1992 to 2016. However, when they looked at just the difference in how long the CEO and the CFO (the person in charge of the money) plan for the future, it didn’t seem to matter much. This is a bit unusual because usually, it does matter.

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How a Federal Ban on Ransomware Payments Could Help CISOs

Harvard Business Review

The ban would would elevate the cybersecurity conversation to the CEO, the CFO, and the board, and potentially end the practice of scapegoating CISOs when a breach happens.

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How to deal with cyber-attacks: publicly or privately?

Strategy Driven

Cyber attacks spiked 164% in the first half of 2017, compared to the same period in 2016, entailing 918 disclosed breaches-according reports on broadcaster CNBC. Andrew Douthwaite has over 17 years of technology experience joining VirtualArmour in 2007 as a senior engineer. Threats vary from sector to sector. About the Author.

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CFOs Don’t Worry Enough About Cyber Risk

Harvard Business Review

The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO. It’s no longer adequate or acceptable for CFOs to simply focus on managing the financial risks of a company. Some CFOs are working with their CISOs and CIOs to actually model their cyber exposure gap.

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

By 2016, the rise of smart phones seemed to have made the company less relevant: Its revenues were at almost the same level they had been a full decade earlier. Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US.

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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 in 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.”

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level.