Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9%

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Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Author or editor of 29 books. Authority on new technology and communication. Liz Wiseman – Author of the best-selling books: Rookie Smarts and Multipliers. Author of several New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling books. Author of three books on nation building. million times.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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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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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. For the uninitiated, Square offers two technologies — a card reader for merchants to use, which is called Register, and the other a mobile interface for customers to pay, which is called Wallet.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Imagine combining the brilliant technological advances of today with timeless people skills, and consider the potential of future generations. Her work has also been featured in Forbes , CFO , Newsweek , CNN Everyday Money , Business Week , The Boston Business Journal , The Los Angeles Times , The Boston Globe , and The Boston Herald.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

It's an extension of yourself that lingers even long after that person has left your website, book, show, or other piece of content. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." But it must be memorable to stand out in this cluttered media world.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2013

Most of the 89,000 leadership books offered on Amazon.com focus on traditional interpersonal leadership: the relationships between leaders and followers. Modern leadership may be as much about facilitating strategy through hiring, training, technology, and focused tasks and goals, as it is about face-to-face interaction.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The book is divided into two parts – text and cases – to provide professors with maximum flexibility in organizing their courses. The text portion of the book discusses key issues derived from the author’s research and consulting, and is meant to complement the case method of teaching, raising issues for conversation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. They''d all read innumerable books on leadership, taken leadership skills assessments, and attended multiple training programs — including executive leadership programs at top business schools. But its European division was struggling.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

He’s also the author of a new book, Done Right: How Tomorrow’s Leaders Get Work Done. If you or I were the CFO of a manufacturing company, and we were in a board meeting, and the board asked, “What is your manufacture and capacity utilization?” Alex, thanks so much for joining us today. Alex Shootman, Workfront.

Content 8

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. The old way was about technology-centricity; the new way is about technology-empowered business strategies. Transformation Drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

GM was trying to change its culture (and I credited the company for that in my book The Change Masters ). She is a clearly a team player with the support of her peers, such as CFO Dan Ammann, promoted to president working with Barra. Barra began her career at the old GM as a young student engineer.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

If you find a relevant article or book, send your boss a copy and ask if she thinks her boss would also like it. She made a presentation to the VP of Public Relations, the CFO, and the president of the company to get the extra support. Interact with her, directly or indirectly. Take advantage of every opportunity to touch base.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

I met the team at Albert (formerly known as Adgorithms) while I was doing research into artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data-driven marketing technologies for my book, Marketing, Interrupted. As part of my research, I interviewed several of Albert’s customers, including Simson.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

As I explain in my book, The Hidden Wealth of Customers , HDS marketing executives Brian Householder and Asim Zaheer took, in effect, the Founding Fathers' approach to assert leadership in the conversation. HDS put Hu Yoshida , its highly-respected chief technology officer, in the limelight to attract high-level audiences.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. Many teach and some even write books. For example, Chenault knew that in his business work he wanted to focus on digital and technology. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. “I don’t quite know what to do next,” said Simon, a media CEO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

The retail industry is getting “reinvented,” as we describe in our new book Matchmakers. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” It’s standing in the path of what Schumpeter called a gale of creative destruction.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

In his Harvard Business Review article summing up his tenure, Immelt recalls that the two things that influenced him most were Marc Andreessen’s 2011 Wall Street Journal article “ Why Software Is Eating the World ” and Eric Ries’s book The Lean Startup. Comstock is out.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2015

It is the same card he used to buy the plane ticket and book the hotel. Coordinating the infrastructure, technology, and messaging in a way that appears seamless and fluid to the customer is, to be blunt, a logistical nightmare. A traveler arrives in a foreign country and attempts to use his credit card to make a purchase.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. As CFO, A.J. she asked, implying that the books were somehow being cooked. ExSolv claimed to have a technology for extracting oil from sand. An agitated Henry burst into his office only a few seconds later.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions. Wrap up the meeting with a summary of accomplishments and next steps action items.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

People who have earned these belts drive projects with clear financial targets set at the top organization, with progress monitored by the CFO. Most missionaries of the BPM religion come from a heritage in information technology. Six Sigma zealots argue that if you train enough people, you get a cultural transformation.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Consider how IBM has tackled new ways of work distribution as described in Lead The Work: Navigating a World Beyond Employment , a book which one of us, Ravin, co-authored.

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