Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets. The challenges are tougher for more established organizations where CEOs may publicly value consistent incremental efficiencies over new value creation and new markets. What should they do? Take Boeing.

CFO 8

CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Along the way, I’ve talked to hundreds of founders, sales and marketing leaders, customer success VPs, and front-line reps about how to build a customer-first SaaS organization. Your #1 focus at this stage is product-market fit. I’ve spent the last seven years building the customer success function at HubSpot. What to do.

Metrics 13

Metrics Engineering Efficiency Learning-by-Doing 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. For example, GE has created a digital platform in the energy sector that its own and third-party software developers can write applications to. Find new ways to motivate the legacy people.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those. He didn’t set ethical boundaries in a scoop-focused media market, and he hired executives who didn’t set policies and procedures to preclude such acts. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

Ethics 9

Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The world's biggest and fastest search engine can't help but generate terabytes and petabytes of actionable investment intelligence. In fact, Google chief economist Hal Varian (and other economists and forecasters) already use the search engine's data and analytics to predict economic futures. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER. More >>.

Hedge 15

Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Its founder, Hans Faust, couldn’t afford to hire developers at the outset, so he’d enlisted volunteers to help design, build, test, and debug the new kind of online game he wanted to bring to the world. You forgot one important figure, Klaus,” Rutger Ekberg, the head of product development, said with a smile. Everyone laughed.

Company 9

Company CFO Proposal Engineering 9

Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

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Influence Blog Politics Learning-by-Doing 275

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2015

You produce growth engines with calculated bets, not “wild-ass gambles.” You have the charm, charisma, enthusiasm, hard work, and marketing mind to encourage and drive your teams to think anything is possible. This means managing entrepreneurs who can navigate trends and market behaviors. You persevere.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur CTO Business Model CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." Backing them up are legions of qualified and ambitious women who, increasingly, are the engines powering China's economic juggernaut. This post was co-authored with Ripa Rashid.

Survey 13

Survey Policies Globalization CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They held about 40 meetings with companies that had bought renewable energy and with big project developers. They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. Get early buy-in. For Owens Corning, the locations matter. Seek advice on the accounting.

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

The COO''s newly developed strategy was very comprehensive: •Do better in every customer segment currently served plus add a couple of new ones. Where else in their regional market (North America) are there projects like the ones that fit the company''s sweet spot? the family was asking. Grow sales and profits at double digit rates.

COO 8

COO Chief Operating Officer Strategic Planning Project 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2017

Recommendation engines (or recommenders ) force organizations to fundamentally rethink how to get greater value from their data while creating greater value for their customers. ”We didn’t think a recommendation engine was necessary at the time,” said one of the company’s web developers.

Engineering 8

Engineering Company White Paper Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. A platform connects providers and users in a multisided market. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). Insight Center.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Susan Fowler, a former site reliability engineer at Uber, recently wrote about her “very, very strange year at Uber,” characterized by a pervasive culture of alleged sexual harassment. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

Compliance 11

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions. It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO.

Charan 13

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2011

The former creates efficiencies and propels markets; the latter drives creativity and innovation. Maybe, as a start, we ought to describe peopley stuff in more economic language, by putting it in some context that will help our CFO and engineering friends better understand how things relate to one another. Or: S = (PT) C.

Succession 15

Succession CFO Collins Bottom-up 15