Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This lack of an analytical approach has traditionally formed a barrier between marketing and finance. One financial services CMO told us how CFOs typically perceive his function: “We’re going to give a certain amount of dollars to those guys. They’re going to make ads and do whatever it is they do.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Forced to do more with much less, the small businesses that have managed to survive and even thrive during these tough times have recognized one important factor: You can’t always compete on price, but you can compete on service. economy is still in a deep funk, and for many small business owners that means business isn’t exactly booming.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

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. After all, sales and finance were often at odds in organizations, and the conflict hadn’t had a big impact on Barker’s revenues. I’m the CFO and he’s in charge of sales.

Case Study 11

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

These leaders, mostly consumer-facing brands like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Walmart, and IKEA, have been covering their roofs and filling giant fields with solar panels and wind turbines. Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. Get early buy-in. Seek advice on the accounting.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

Execution 14

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How much time do you spend enhancing your organizational culture, leadership pipeline, and employer brand? If you’re typical, then your culture, leadership, and employment brand are described vaguely or not at all. Not surprisingly, the particular aspects of managing human capital that are most important vary by sector.

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2014

They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. 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.

Stage-Gate 8

Stage-Gate Strategic Planning Welch CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor.

CEO 12

CEO IPO Energy COO 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

As important as the volunteers were to BrainGame, they were an opinionated group­ and weren’t always easy to manage. We need to bring in people whose expectations we can manage.” She explained that BrainGame’s current backers had been asking about growth plans, and Lena was pitching new groups for a new round of financing in two weeks.

Company 8

Company CFO Proposal Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. IT management' In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

When the well-known hedge fund manager and short-seller Jeremiah Hughes first put Terranola in the spotlight, issuing ominous warnings about unsold products, a looming patent expiration, and flawed growth projections, the considered judgment of the executive team was to do nothing. “I As CFO, A.J. They even sued one fund manager.

Case Study 8

Case Study CFO Hedge PR 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

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?” The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis. Think about that, Angelia.

Content 8

Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

If you learn to plan, structure, and participate in meetings effectively, you will be able improve your own time management and productivity as well as that of other participants. 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.

Press Release 140

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Aubrey Merrin, the store manager, met him at the door. "Mr. Aubrey had transferred from the Coe's up in Flowing Wells, where he'd been the store manager for 10 years. I'm honored, sir, to be opening a brand new store. Also, Coe's managers were trained to approve lease agreements only for people who could afford the payments.

Case Study 10

Case Study Marketing Real Estate Retail 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Rogier hadn’t once mentioned holacracy or self-managed teams, even though the executive team and the board had been talking for months about transitioning to just such a system at the global construction company. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2012

We began by lining up the biggest sponsor to champion the project, identifying the most powerful naysayers to help us mitigate the risks we were about to introduce, and then systematically recruiting our general management structure to do the real legwork. We collaborated with our CFO to think through the budget and prize strategy.

Innovation 11

Innovation CFO Learning-by-Doing Brainstorming 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Aside from stocks, he dabbled in an activist brand of angel investing: holding large stakes and board seats in several start-up health care businesses, all based in Spain. This business works only if the Calidad de Vida brand stands for quality, innovative care — across the board. But Jorge clearly needed further coaching.

Case Study 13

Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13