Marshall Goldsmith
DECEMBER 26, 2011
Recently, in a conversation with the CFO of a blue chip company, I observed an example of the impact of this increased compensation. The CFO replied, "You are getting paid as much a partner in one of the top professional services firms. There has also been a marked decline in midlevel work - a "hollowing-out" of the middle class.
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 26, 2016
Most new businesses do fail, and many women who take time off work to raise children have a hard time returning to the career track. In that case, taking a financial management class before you leave your day job, or recruiting a top-quality CFO, would simultaneously assuage their fears and make your startup more likely to succeed.
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 20, 2015
As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. Dan knew that if he stayed in the CFO spot beyond the IPO, the microscope would be laser focused on him. You’re so articulate.”
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 20, 2015
As the CFO of a well-funded IPO-bound company, Dan had many years of experience and he had the results to show that he had outworked and out-delivered many of his internal and external counterparts. Dan knew that if he stayed in the CFO spot beyond the IPO, the microscope would be laser focused on him. You’re so articulate.”
Harvard Business Review
MAY 1, 2011
The essential question, therefore, is: What is the logic for having world-class academic researchers (who, for the most part, have never managed a business themselves) teach business classes to MBA students? the classes minus the dissertation). It's not clear that they are. I don't buy it.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 18, 2018
In 2004, Hickox was a certified public accountant in Texas and at a crossroads in her career. “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. They both wanted important, but not overwhelming careers. ” None of this is easy.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 11, 2015
the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). ” That would neither be in line with our primary objectives, nor fit our consultants’ career expectations. A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine.
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