Women on Business

JANUARY 8, 2011

She’s taking over the seat formerly occupied by Apple’s former CFO, John Anderson, who resigned amidst a stock options backdating scandal. Andrea Jung was an executive vice president at Neiman-Marcus before she joined Avon in 1996. Avon’s stock price was up 15% in 2007.Â

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Authority on new technology and communication. Clark Callahan – Managing Director, Custom Programs Harvard Business School Executive Education. Formerly led the growth of Executive Education at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Because no one is managing the store. How did we get here?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road. Have they been fudging their research for years?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Consider Xerox Technology Business, a division that provides enterprise printing capabilities to various industries, including schools. We like the example set by Jeff Lowe, CMO of SMART Technologies, and his team. What does a better approach look like? SMART sells solutions that enable remote workers to collaborate more effectively.

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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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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2018

At one point, the CEO indicated that he would know that the right shift had occurred when the CFO, chief strategy officer, and other C-level leaders were seeking the CMO’s advice on strategic business problems. “I needed to earn the right to be invited into key, firm-level strategic decisions.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently changed its guidelines to reflect this reality, and now recommends getting rid of rules that complicate password practices for end users, such as requiring frequent password resets. People fall for them because attackers have paid attention to detail. A Culture of Openness.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. ” Immelt elevated marketing and digital media when he promoted Beth Comstock to vice chair, while other positions, including that of the CFO, are at the senior vice president level.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

As game-changing technologies transform every business process, they also give us the ability to create new products and services that were impossible just a few years ago. The old way was about technology-centricity; the new way is about technology-empowered business strategies. Transformation Drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

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? Applying them broadly without reference to your talent strategy could make it impossible to source or retain the people you need to achieve goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Now, digital-education upstarts are trying to unbundle the university. Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” Andreessen: I think a lot of it is based on the underlying technology change. But new bundles keep appearing.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. But being able to talk about IT risk is essential if you are going to make the right decisions about how you use technology in your business. Cyber Security Depends on Education. Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.".

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2016

“I have no education or training to do anything else. ” 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. “Why have you stayed?” ” Ken asked. Nobuo shrugged. This is what I know.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

It’s not rocket science, but it is surprising how many CFO’s and managers don’t stop to evaluate the effectiveness of their meetings. Assign tasks and ask if there are questions. Wrap up the meeting with a summary of accomplishments and next steps action items.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

government isn’t safe from attack, and second, the hedge fund’s CFO was able to be fooled into giving away information over the phone. Recent attacks on OPM and a London hedge fund show two different ways that cybersecurity is so difficult right now: First, even the U.S. Can you actually defend against getting hacked?

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