Vaibhav Taneja: The New CFO of Tesla
CEO Insider
AUGUST 16, 2023
Vaibhav Taneja, aged 45, from India, will be taking on the role of Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in addition to his current position as Chief Accounting Officer.
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The hottest finance trend in business today may be what your business needs
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OCTOBER 19, 2021
Fractional Chief Financial Officers (CFO) are in high demand these days. A fractional CFO is a highly qualified business finance professional that your company can hire on a part-time basis. The post The hottest finance trend in business today may be what your business needs appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
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Technology Literacy Will Determine a CFO’s Success
HR Digest
JULY 8, 2022
The one thing that will majorly influence the fate of CFO aspirants is their tech skills. According to a Gartner survey of 173 CFOs in November 2020, digital investments topped CFO agendas. Being comfortable with data, technology, and cross-disciplinary collaboration was crucial to the success of CFO candidates.
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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Tangential Opportunity
N2Growth Blog
JULY 25, 2022
This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. A simple illustration perhaps is a CEO of a large injection molding firm, who might be well suited to a brewing and bottling company.
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Overpaid CEOs a Huge Red Flag for Company Stability, Shareholder Advocacy Group Says
HR Digest
APRIL 10, 2022
According to a report by As You Sow , a shareholder advocacy firm, 2021 saw a significant increase in shareholder rejections of CEO pay packages. More than half of shareholders rejected CEO pay packages at 16 companies last year, up from ten in 2020 and seven in 2019.
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Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip | In the CEO Afterlife
In the CEO Afterlife
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
In the CEO Afterlife. Why HR and the CEO should be joined at the Hip. The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. Ultimately, it is the CEO who determines the corporate culture, whether good or bad. Leadership.
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Google Layoffs of 200 Core Employees Signal a Worrying Trend
HR Digest
MAY 2, 2024
The individuals manage the critical functioning of a majority of Google’s services, which makes it all the more unexpected to see the company choose to let them go. Earlier this year, CFO Ruth Porat announced layoffs at Google’s finance department and restructuring efforts there as they moved to keep up with the shifting tech world.
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These Are the People You Need on Your Startup Team
Chart Your Course
JANUARY 13, 2017
Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics. In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If your CFO is doing something financially shady, SOX says that he is either doing it with you or to you.
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Why HR and the CEO Should Be Joined at the Hip
LDRLB
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. My regret is that I did not free up my other hip for Human Resources, a group of eager young managers at the rear of the functional pecking order. CEOs must watch for that.
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Leadership and Product Management
Lead on Purpose
DECEMBER 6, 2010
Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Therefore, a product manager must earn the trust of people in the organization and influence them to do their jobs effectively and efficiently.
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Avon CEO Andrea Jung Takes Seat on Apple's Board :: Women on Business
Women on Business
JANUARY 8, 2011
NASDAQ: APPL ) has named Andrea Jung , CEO of Avon  (NYSE: AVP ), as the eigth member of its board of directors. Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO, stated that Jung will bring a “new dimension&# to the company’s board. Andrea Jung is the first woman and the first Asian to hold a seat on Apple’s board.Â
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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls. That is patch management—a relatively straightforward process, 10 or 20 years ago. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.
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The Disconnected Leader | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 22, 2010
Trust me when I tell you that being out of touch is never a good position to find yourself in as the CEO. My advice to CEOs, regardless of whether you’re running a start-up or a Fortune 500 company, is to go see things for yourself.
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Unemotional Leadership—an Oxymoron
Lead on Purpose
FEBRUARY 22, 2014
The leading candidate is the scheming CFO played by Frederic March, a passionless, colorless bean counter groping for power, but with no vision beyond increasing dividend payouts to stockholders. Andrew Cravenho is the CEO of CBAC Funding, an innovative invoice finance company.
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You Can't Argue With Crazy | N2Growth Blog
N2Growth Blog
JUNE 29, 2010
The following list of suggestions is my gift to you in hope that it will allow you to outsmart those that feel they cannot be outsmarted… Define Acceptable Behavior : This first thing all CEOs need to do is to accept responsibility for any “corporate crazies&# who have taken residence in their organization.
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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively
Harvard Business Review
JULY 25, 2016
Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. This critical alliance needs and deserves much greater analysis and application.
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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions
Marshall Goldsmith
FEBRUARY 8, 2018
Frances Hesselbein – Former CEO, Girl Scouts of America and Peter Drucker Foundation. Alan Mulally – Former CEO, Ford and Boeing Commercial Aircraft. CEO Magazine – CEO of the Year. Thinkers50 – World’s Most Influential Management Thinkers. World authority on project management.
When It Pays to Think Like a Finance Manager
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 23, 2015
If you want approval for a new project — purchasing new equipment or computer systems, applying for a patent, building a new store — chances are you need your company’s finance department on board. To get the green light, it helps to understand how finance people think. Finance & Accounting Tool.
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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business
Women on Business
JANUARY 17, 2011
CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), of upper management positions were held by women (up from 14.4% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year.
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Who’s Better at Strategy: CFOs or CSOs?
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2016
Thirty years ago, strategy was the CEO’s job. The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate.
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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 30, 2017
This week Uber took a major step toward righting the ship with the choice of Dara Khosrowshahi as its new CEO. market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business.
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Two Powerful Ways Managers Can Curb Implicit Biases
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 1, 2018
Many managers want to be more inclusive. For the most part, managers are not given the right tools to overcome the challenges posed by implicit biases. But this demands a lot of cognitive energy, so over time, managers go back to their old habits. PATRIK STOLLARZ/Getty Images. But they don’t know how to get there.
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How CFOs Can Take the Long-Term View in a Short-Term Economy
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2016
Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. Redefining the CFO role. ” Many did.
IT Doesn't Matter (to CEOs)
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 15, 2013
This argument was derided by IT supply-side executives such as Steve Ballmer, Carly Fiorina, and Scott McNealy, but CEOs quietly applauded it. In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague. Because they distance themselves from IT, CEOs don''t grasp its subtleties. IT management' Accountability.
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8 What It Will Take to Fix HR
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.
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11 How to Get on the Shortlist for the C-Suite
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2017
” The management literature is overflowing with advice on becoming the boss. With transparency in succession planning becoming a priority, career management for senior executives becomes easier. You can be stronger at one of them, but you need to know how to manage both. CEO Chemistry.
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CMOs, Build a Relationship with Your CFOs
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 6, 2013
But this makes the still lingering CMO-CFO disconnect even more significant, as both executives are now stewards of that critical corporate data. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics). Agree on the dashboard. If someone has data, let's look at that."
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How One CMO Revamped Her Role
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 3, 2018
About 30 minutes prior to her weekly one-on-one with the CEO, the chief marketing officer at a multibillion global financial services firm received a cryptic email from him with the subject line “The Trouble with CMOs.” The CEO, grinning, agreed with her. Don Farrall/Getty Images. What came next was a pleasant surprise.
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8 Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era
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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Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other
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. I’m the CFO and he’s in charge of sales.
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Dealing With Investors the Sam Palmisano Way
Harvard Business Review
MAY 27, 2014
The two were sitting on stage at Radio City Music Hall chatting about business-y stuff when the retired GE CEO made the suggestion, and I was a little surprised when the retired IBM CEO didn’t dismiss it out of hand. They do, however, have to be managed intelligently. Communication Finance Getting buy-in'
Avoiding Catastrophic Failures in Process Improvement
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 6, 2011
Two years after that, the CEO was gone and the reengineering program was defunct. In this case, the answers were not there, the effort was stopped, and a new management team took over. The management team was running short of patience for results and wanted me to help them bring changes to fruition. What happened?
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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"
Harvard Business Review
MAY 23, 2012
The recent disclosure of a multi-billion dollar trading loss at JPMorgan Chase reminds us again of the challenge and complexity of risk management, the subject of our June 2012 HBR article, "Managing Risks: A New Framework." Each requires customized risk management processes. The compliance-oriented risk manager of a failed U.K.
You Can Be a Great Leader and Also Have a Life
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 18, 2018
Tesla and Space X CEO Elon Musk tweets that no one changed the world working 40 hours a week. Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. Dimitri Otis/Getty Images. Apple’s Tim Cook is on email before the sun rises.
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15 The Shape of the Meaning Organization
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 4, 2011
Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.
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15 The C-Suite Needs a Chief Entrepreneur
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2015
The best CEOs are excellent at growing and running a company within a known business model. Sure, there are exceptions who are both visionary CEOs and innovators — Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos, for example — but there are very few companies that can stomach that sort of leadership. Design/construct a space for invention.
Getting Past a Career Setback: An Example and a Test
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 22, 2014
Managers often think about their careers in terms of winning and losing. With a background in both strategy and finance, Sheila was an up-and-coming manager at a well-known consumer products company. Winners ascend the corporate ladder and get the praise, recognition, bonuses, and top jobs. Here’s a case example.
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10 How Industrial Firms Invest in Renewable Energy, Affordably
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 5, 2016
Under this financing structure, the company contracts to buy kilowatts, not the turbines and panels. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. To do this, they have mostly used power purchasing agreements (PPAs) to buy their clean power. Get early buy-in.
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Overcome Your Biases and Build a Great Team
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 25, 2014
Thirty-one years later, I became Chairman and CEO of a global Fortune 300 company. The leading executive recruitment firm Egon Zender, as part of talent evaluation at the time of Dow Chemical’s merger with Rohm and Haas in the Spring of 2009, described us as the “best CEO university” they had ever seen.
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The Game Buyers Play with Vendors
Harvard Business Review
JULY 27, 2012
The potential customer's VP of finance contacted Bill and asked him to prepare a proposal for a multimillion-dollar initiative. Throughout the process, Bill was never allowed to meet with the decision maker, the CFO. The chemical firm's CEO asked her to prepare a bid for a new production line that the buyer needed to install quickly.
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14 Nonprofits Can’t Keep Ignoring Talent Development
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success. As the organization has grown, CEO Charles Best has encouraged senior executives to take on increasing responsibilities. Senior management encouraged the employee’s creativity and coached her on how to implement her idea.
When Investors Want to Know How You Treat People
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
Australia’s main CFO forum, the G100 , has shown interest in the topic and even published a paper offering broad support for integrated reporting, arguing that “corporate reporting reform is underway and CFOs should seize the opportunity to drive the reporting agenda.”
A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2018
From a business strategist who can appear aloof and dismissive of those with less intellectual horsepower, to a general manager who aligns and inspires her region through personal connections and demonstrates genuine care for people. Management experiences grow generic capabilities that are valuable to all managers, no matter their function.
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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 28, 2012
Then–Google CEO Eric Schmidt was appalled : "Sergey, among your many ideas, this is the worst." (The Google may not have a hedge fund, but it's unlikely that high IQ hedge funds aren't using Google's data to better manage their own situational awareness and risk. An HBR Management Puzzle. What a pity. More >>.
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