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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. American Hotel & Lodging Association (AH&LA) Board of Directors. Facebook’s first HR hire, she has led global people programs, been an HR Business Partner, and CFO. and The Career Playbook. Former President of Citibank Online.

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Case Study: An Office Romance Gone Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Hotel bar @ 7? He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. Still, when just a few days after their drinks in the hotel, he’d asked her out on a “real date,” Elizabeth initially demurred, wondering if it was a good idea. Elizabeth: The whole gang? Brad: Just me. Elizabeth: OK.

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Case Study: After a Crisis, Who Should Take the Fall?

Harvard Business Review

The four weeks since hackers had attacked his company had been the most stressful of Jake Santini’s career. The plan was to go public next year, and Jake and his CFO had been trying to cut costs, but they had mostly spared the IT group. It was Fleura, calling from her hotel room in San Francisco. Some of that was true.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

We were at the Savoy Hotel, and the ballroom was full of all these British investment bankers, and we give our normal pitch. Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” It was our last show and we were in a big hurry to get the plane. Barksdale: That’s right.

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