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.

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Health Care CFO Competitive Advantage Outsourcing 132

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2013

This area of innovation is where mobile payment companies want to play, especially in markets where such technology is less than ubiquitous. For the uninitiated, Square offers two technologies — a card reader for merchants to use, which is called Register, and the other a mobile interface for customers to pay, which is called Wallet.

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CFO Loyalty Technology Definition 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. His idea was to turn investor relations on its head by using regular meetings with top-class investors as something akin to due diligence.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2013

The technology company, Alentix*, was doing well and growing annually at the rate of about 15%. I''ve designed and taught everything from one-day team buildings to 30-day wilderness trips, from business school classes to corporate trainings, from simulations to executive leadership courses. But its European division was struggling.

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Leadership Committee CFO Learning-by-Doing 11

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). A strong value proposition and a first-class recruiting engine. Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals.

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. GE’s gross margin was 21% last year, compared with 28% for United Technologies and 30% for Siemens. Newly public tech companies are now going public with dual-class stock, which allows the founders to have more voting rights than the general public.

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