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. “You’re surprised?”

Case Study 10

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

For example, a divisional controller may report directly to the CFO and on a dotted line to the VP of the division; which ensures that the controller knows what the "internal customer" (the VP) needs as well as what the direct boss (the CFO) wants. It certainly worked for me. Getting caught in the middle might cost you your job.

Management 8

Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Twelve cases are written as narratives with multiple teaching points, but without a focus on a particular business decision; the remaining twenty-three cases were written around specific conundrums related to strategy, operations, finance, marketing, leadership, culture, human resources, organizational design, business model, and growth.

Learning-by-Doing 62

Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Marketing ROI is exactly what it sounds like: a way of measuring the return on investment from the amount a company spends on marketing. Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. In fact, global spending on media is expected to reach $2.1

ROI 8

ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Hiring Human resources' When used correctly, cognitive and personality tests can increase the chances that new employees will succeed.

Pre-Employment Screening 8

Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. This gives the company "criteria for correctness" that it can use to measure how well its pre-employment screening tests actually predict success on the job.

Pre-Employment Screening 8

Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

The success of platform companies like Airbnb, Amazon, and Netflix has led to envy bordering on despair for their competitors. Companies are right to be worried. Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. So what’s a legacy company to do?

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Ascension centralized functions such as human resources, payroll, travel services, and finance, thereby streamlining operations and saving costs. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings. It also pursued process innovations that resulted in cost savings.

Health Care 8

Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. Consider a story relayed to me by an executive at an educational company.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Women account for just 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs and fewer than 15% of corporate executives at top companies worldwide. The only area where women pull ahead of men is in human resources, where they account for 71% of all HR managers. Brett (not his real name) was the CFO of a major multinational. But they rarely work.

Team 8

Team Diversity Company Policies 8