Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The CEO’s principal aim therefore is not necessarily to judiciously allocate financial capital but to allocate precious scientific and human resources to the most promising projects and to pull back and redeploy those resources in a timely manner when the prospects of specific projects dim.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2015

At the bottom it’s critical, but it’s a lot less so at the top. Distefano : Because we’ve got [a database of] over two million assessed executives, we can cut that so that we can see how a CFO at a state-owned firm in China is different from a CFO in private equity-owned firm in Silicon Valley.

Execution 8

Execution CFO Self-aware Benchmarking 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It focuses on the major management challenges that successful start-ups encounter when leaders decide to grow and scale their businesses. Customers don’t expect to get bottom-of-the-barrel prices everywhere they go, but they do expect to be treated with respect. Recently I ordered some shoes from Zappos that ended up not fitting.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. It was Noelle’s third scheduled meeting to review financials, and again she was alone in a conference room waiting for people to show up. ” Doug spoke up.

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Case Study CFO Bottom-up Operations 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. “You’re surprised?”

Case Study 13

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

If the Affordable Care Act unravels in the near term, the number of insured could creep back up to 50 million, the level in 2009. Viewed this way, there is a bottom-up solution to the problem of America’s uninsured. America spends $3.3 Yet nearly 30 million Americans, or 10% of the population, are uninsured.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. How Employee Engagement Hits the Bottom Line Harvard Business Review, November 2012. Ten Steps to Build Real Start-up Team Engagement Forbes, featuring Louder than Words, May 2011. The Innovation Catalysts Harvard Business Review, June 2011.

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