Tanveer Naseer

MAY 10, 2016

People-facing jobs, like sales, management consulting and investment banking are dominated by extroverts. He has observed in many companies that a C-suite team represents a balance of types, for instance, an introverted CEO who chooses an extroverted CFO to bring strengths to the table that he or she doesn’t have. “On

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How To Diversity CFO Education 100

Roundtable Talk

OCTOBER 12, 2010

All interesting stuff, and easy to jump on a soapbox about, but, the quote that caught my eye came from Ed Clark, President & CEO of TD Bank Financial Group. So, when Clark is quoted as predicting that a woman will eventually head up a bank… in about TWENTY years time, I did a double take. And, that’s my rant for today.

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CFO Banking Belief Systems Godin 54

Building Personal Strength

MAY 7, 2010

His Harvard classmates, who sought jobs at big consulting firms and investment banks, thought he was crazy. In 2000 he accepted a job as CFO at start-up Rackspace. "If I'm an idiot, you can fire me." He got the internship, and after graduation he stayed on as an employee there. But Napier had something else in mind.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. Not unlike the destruction of trust brought about by megalomaniacal divas is the damage that Wall Street banks can cause to companies, or to the economy in general, as in the 2008 meltdown.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group. Former HR Director and member of executive management team at the National Irish Bank. Bernie Banks – Brigadier General.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While focused on the specific need for this specific customer, we begin a broader look at the “Tissue Banking” industry and reached out to several other companies and organizations including Community Tissue Services in Dayton and the American Association of Tissue Banks.

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Building Personal Strength

MARCH 4, 2010

He did this of his own initiative, even though it involved some risk to his bank. Forty years later, I googled him and discovered that he’s now the CFO for a big company and a benefactor in his community. His most recent act of loyalty was to restructure our credit to our advantage, to help us thrive during the recession.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

Zabeen Hirji, CHRO at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), grew up in retail banking and operations management roles before moving into HR. “I was surprised by how much I personally enjoyed running the HR function versus taking on a CFO role,” said Reses.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2014

To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. The CFO couldn’t understand why. That enabled the company to find a new lender who refinanced $25 million in bank debt. If the CFO has a realistic budget, it’s much easier for a midsized company to borrow money.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. CFOs of these companies themselves admit that they cannot justify their market capitalizations based on traditional metrics.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

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. Oka had found feedback from US regulators very helpful in his efforts to revive Union Bank and saw an opportunity to do something similar at Nikon. .”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2017

One CFO I know managed finance for a spin-off firm when it went public and then returned to the parent company in a corporate position. Another CFO led finance for multiple units so he could gain a breadth of knowledge across the business before becoming the corporate CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Banks are feeling the crunch; according to McKinsey , legacy financial institutions will see profits decline 20%–60% by 2025 if they fail to evolve digitally. Its recent launch of Marcus , an online retail bank, is a particularly promising signal.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

the movement to enhanced reporting is led by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), which is endorsed by regulatory heavy weight Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England. Deutsche Bank felt compelled to explain there was a good reason (in this case increased efficiency through e-learning). Outside the U.S.,

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Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The President of the United States criticized Bank of America's planned $5 monthly debit card fee by saying, "This is exactly why we need [a regulator] whose sole job it is to prevent this kind of stuff from happening." In response to this uproar, Verizon quickly reversed its price hike and Bank of America eventually did too.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

For example, in the credit card business, understanding the importance of deals with issuing banks is critical. While marketing might focus on maximizing card transactions, or swipes, finance understands that not all swipes are equal (depending on the deal with a given bank).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The team’s historical approach to finding top talent had been simple — target graduates of top universities and MBA programs with experience at leading management consulting firms or investment banks. In reality, many of the top performers at Intuit, including the CEO and CFO, did not hold degrees from an Ivy League school.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

It will be interesting to see how a former CFO will face up to these formidable challenges, complicated further by reports that the ECB isn’t allowing the Volkswagen group to fully benefit from the central bank’s “cheap” money.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

“I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. When she discovered the bank didn’t have a paid family leave policy, a word to the CEO changed that. “I learned I needed to speak up. ” None of this is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

bank observed that his organization had "a cultural indisposition to challenge" and that the task of "being a risk and compliance manager.felt a bit like being a man in a rowing boat trying to slow down an oil tanker.". First, CEO Jamie Dimon was widely acknowledged as the "ultimate chief risk officer of the bank."

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Risk Management CIO Management Banking 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Sena Aslan, the CEO of FDM Turkey, wished the drive from the Ankara airport to the bank’s largest branch were a bit longer. She had made site visits a hallmark of her short tenure at the company’s helm, because they helped her see how frontline employees were weathering the changes she’d been spearheading across the bank.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

So why did one of the planet's biggest investment banks — and its 33,300 employees — hold out so long? Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. In the fast-evolving world of enterprise social media, that's a solution even Goldman can bank on. The risks and penalties are real.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

Imagine you're a major bank. Would you want to start a Facebook page and let anyone weigh-in with what they thought of you, and of banking in general? If our audience is a bank CFO, we'll talk about a large bank on Wall Street that tackled the issue we're addressing, and how it did so," says Zaheer.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. This makes it difficult to justify investment in change management with the rigor that a data-driven CEO or CFO might expect.

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Marketing Root Cause Analysis Management Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. It certainly worked for me. He really liked me.

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Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. As with most PPAs, the contract was a critical asset for the energy developer to take, literally, to the bank to get financings. Get early buy-in. For Owens Corning, the locations matter.

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Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. It can: Save Taxes.

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

I could be CFO," confessed one female executive with particularly strong credentials, "but I'm happy right where I am.". Only 32% of highly qualified women over 40 describe themselves as very ambitious (compared to 46% of men). What's causing women to ease off the accelerator while their male peers speed ahead?

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CFO Film Banking Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

Imagine a marketing consultant — experienced in industries from farming to financial services — being asked to run a $200 million budget for a big bank. Rare, also, would be the strategy consultant tapped for a CFO role at a Fortune 100. That's because over time, the generalists become specialists, too.

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Career Long-term Christensen CFO 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Noski, former CFO of Bank of America. Look at Microsoft’s current search for a successor to chief executive Steve Balmer, who has run the show since 2000. Thompson, the former CEO of Symantec, leads its search committee, and he is joined by Steve J. Luczo, chairman and CEO of Seagate, and Charles H.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Perhaps your manager had your job title a few years or months back, or your new CFO recently transitioned into the role from heading the accounting department. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles. Take a quick scan of the managers and company leaders.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 10, 2011

On October 4, 2011, Demand: Creating What People Love Before They Know They Want It, will be published by Crown Business. Written by Adrian Slywotzky with Karl Weber. In my opinion, it is one of the most valuable and will, over time, become one of the most I influential business books ever written. It takes [.].

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

it's the behavior of industrial age institutions — corporations, banks, governments — that's the invisible fist of this great crisis. In too many boardrooms, marketroids are minions, flunkies, and sidekicks, yes-men who refuse to stand up to the CEO, CFO, or board and say "No!! So here's a thought.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

They might impersonate a bank, saying, “Hey, I know you’re about to go and get an operation, don’t forget to transfer some money by clicking here,” or whatever. And then you think, “Well, they know I’m having an operation tomorrow, so they must be a legitimate bank.”

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Health Care Hedge Banking Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. We call everybody within the company a “client.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

While this would seem sufficient to alert the bank to his impending trip abroad, “transaction denied” flashes across the terminal screen, leaving this longtime customer stranded, fuming, and no longer so loyal. A traveler arrives in a foreign country and attempts to use his credit card to make a purchase.

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