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Entrepreneurial Leadership

Leading Blog

Joel Peterson has been around the block serving as a leader in various roles—CEO, CFO, founder, investor, entrepreneur—and is currently the chairman of JetBlue Airways and a professor at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business. What is your personal operating system? Throughout it all, he says, he’s been lost more than once.

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Complimentary Resource – The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward

Strategy Driven

The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. Click here for more information on The CFO’s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward. You just finished reading Complimentary Resource - The CFO''s Cheat Sheet to Compensation Risk & Reward ! by Ultimate Software. Find out how in this quick guide!

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Mobile Payments and the 'Wow' Factor: Q&A With Square CFO Sarah Friar

Harvard Business Review

We asked Square''s CFO and Operations Lead, Sarah Friar , for perspectives on this technology, what it means for marketers, and how to manage in the world of mobile innovation. I think the airlines have done this well with allowing me to just skip through security lines in first-class or allowing me to board the plane first.

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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

operations in favor of financial performance. And then there are the class-action lawsuits that are sure to follow, given the deep pockets of the shareholders and government involved. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S. This can only encourage U.S.

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How One Nonprofit Is Expanding Health Care for the Uninsured

Harvard Business Review

a cataract operation can cost $200 or less, compared with $3,500 in the U.S. In Reverse Innovation in Health Care we elaborate on the five principles that allow the Indian exemplars to provide world-class health care at ultra-low prices. The question is: Could U.S. It’s part of Catholic social teaching.”

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

Today, many high-profile companies— Cisco , Google , IBM , Samsung , Siemens , Disney , Volkswagen and Deutsche Bank , to name a few—contain such roving consulting groups to help solve the most critical strategy and operations problems throughout the business. A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine.

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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. But by and large, for years, Walmart has taken, in my view, a mainly operational, cost-reducing, brand-fitting approach to sustainability.