Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

I think you’ll find that your view of the world will change dramatically when you rely upon your own observations, as opposed to what you read in a management report, or what you hear third or fourth hand in a meeting. The Unaware CEO : These CEO’s will take any report or piece of information at face value.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. Authority on new technology and communication. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years.

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Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2012

Everyone in the room who is fully satisfied with their IT staff and has no concerns about finding and recruiting new technology talent raise your hand. It's an "irreplaceable motivator for high-performing technology staff," McKinsey reports. Big Pharma's Questionable Start-Up Strategy (Technology Review).

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Development McKinsey CFO Competitive Advantage 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

As work itself is changing, some of the basic tenets of leadership development are being challenged. The very idea of leading people in jobs is changing with the democratization of work and the continued advance of digital technology. Digital technology is increasing the complexity and options associated with this plurality of work.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Establishing a personal brand carries even more weight when you’re responsible for developing and leading others. But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

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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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. Consider the Columbia and Challenger space shuttle disasters.

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Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

As finance shifts its focus from controlling costs to advising managers on improvement activities, CFOs must change their thinking and behaviors. Getting the CFO on board is key. CFO Tim Olson of ThedaCare , a healthcare system in Wisconsin, went through a similar conversion. Then I became an advocate. Now I know that.".

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Finance CFO Budgeting Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2017

That the CHRO role, although at first it may look career limiting, can have more impact than any other position reporting to the CEO? Earlier in her career, she left a position as SVP of business development and emerging businesses to join Boston Scientific in a senior line job. That’s precisely what we found.

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Quinn Execution CFO Forrester 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Analytics requirements can span business units, database and analysis systems, and reporting hierarchies. Where should the CAO report? In most cases today, the CAO doesn’t report directly to the CEO, but to another member of the C-suite. It is often easier to see where a CAO role should not report.

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Company COO Information Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

If you are sitting in a job interview and hear the words "dotted line reporting," you have just encountered the world of matrix management. Matrix reporting systems are designed to keep people working together and not at cross purposes. Jobs with matrix reporting relationships are not generally entry-level professional positions.

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Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2014

A good boss provides encouragement, development, mentoring, and support, while also being fair, constructively critical, and helpful in integrating employees into high-performing teams. Eventually, her team built a portfolio that caught the interest of the CFO and the CEO, and soon she was meeting regularly with them.

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Supply Chain CFO Performance Review Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. If your strategy relies heavily on aggressive M&A, for example, do you really want a CFO who doesn’t command a salary higher than the norm?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But given that today's CMO is often the main connection between the consumer and the company, a strong relationship with the CIO can allow her to leverage technology to better understand those customers. And new technology can integrate these disparate sources of customer-related information. Find Common Ground.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2013

People and Organization : In late 2010, GE CEO Jeff Immelt decided to give country managers P&L responsibility for all of GE in their countries and have them report to vice chairman John Rice, who would be stationed in Hong Kong. As Keith Sherin, then GE’s CFO put it, “This is where the growth is.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

And as an HBS white paper points out, even some of today’s most mainstream executives — from the CTO to even the CFO — were once just new positions created to deal with “significant opportunities and risks emerging from technological or social disruptions.” Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

With so many professional fathers and mothers depending on this common wisdom, it’s no wonder workforce opt-out rates aren’t budging and so many working parents report feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. It’s as applicable for fathers as for mothers, whatever the family configuration, and regardless of roles or resources.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. ” It took her a while to find her footing — she reports “calendar filling.” Almost every CEO we interviewed reported great satisfaction in their work lives after being CEO. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. It’s the people.

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Simon CEO Venture Capitalist Planning 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2011

There were about 10 people involved — the CEO and his direct reports — and we met for two days offsite, in a hotel, so we wouldn't be distracted. Save at least an hour or two at the end of the meeting to develop communication plans to disseminate the decisions. I wrote that in a journal entry about seven years ago.

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CFO CEO Hotels Strategy 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

For a company our size, with reported revenue of $24.4 Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals. the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level).

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Consultative Team How To McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

But platforms and networks can be developed in many different ways. Sponsored by DXC Technology. Waze, on the other hand, uses members of the Waze community to report road conditions, relying on reciprocity and appreciation as a social currency. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

” Ken turned to his CFO, expecting a reaction, and got one: “Respectfully, Mari-san, I would be extremely uncomfortable putting a request of that size to management. ” Ken didn’t want to shoot down Mari’s proposal immediately, but he agreed with the CFO. ” Ken said. Mayuka Mori, the COO, jumped in.

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