CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […]. Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

Banks and lenders have predictive analytics engines that tell the lender the probability that a customer will pay them back. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. One area so far relatively untouched is change management.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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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.

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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

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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

With a $25,000 personal investment and a small office in her home, she began aggregating sales leads and aggressively acquiring customers through very traditional marketing means — like yellow page advertisements. Data-Driven Marketing. It was 2001, and online advertising was at its nascent stage. The situation was untenable.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The recent ups and downs of the global financial markets have placed a lot of scrutiny on CEOs, corporate boards and executive teams to deliver stakeholder value that can withstand the fluctuations. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. is that in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There are instances when it might be perfectly legitimate and value enhancing to issue earnings guidance in an effort to inform the market about material disruptions, shifts in the business model etc., At a macro level, there is evidence that it negatively influences analysts’ reports, thereby distorting the market.

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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. Three years later, GE hired veteran software engineer Ganesh Bell to be chief digital officer of GE Power and Water. Many such leaders are relatively young and highly sought after.

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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 >>.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

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. That didn’t stop CEO John Stumpf from blaming employees who “didn’t get it right,” or CFO John Shrewsberry from blaming “under performers.”

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This means they're buying drugs that could be similar to others already on or coming soon to the market. No company should confuse the strategy of buying into a big market with buying innovation that will bring tomorrow's growth. Terra Networks agreed to buy internet search-engine leader Lycos in 2000 for $12.5

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Klara Eberhart, the head of engineering, interrupted. We’ve barely spent anything on marketing, because they do it all for us.” She proposed hiring 15 to 20 new engineers. When the women arrived back at the office, Andrew Maslin, BrainGame’s head of marketing, was waiting for them in the lobby. “I What’s our story?”.

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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

They resist getting their hands dirty alongside the CIO, even though many of them will readily get down into the mud of a balance sheet with the CFO or strategize the details of global brand issues with the CMO. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

Nothing about markets or strategies — CEOs have canned answers for that kind of thing. How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". Have you ever pondered what you''d ask the CEO if you were made chairman of the board for 10 minutes and could pose one question?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Where else in their regional market (North America) are there projects like the ones that fit the company''s sweet spot? The COO, CFO, and the chief engineer are convinced that the strategy needs to be focused around success in the sweet spot. Why are we bidding on jobs that do not fit into the sweet spot?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2013

A few weeks ago, I was a keynote speaker at a large international technology conference and one of the demonstrations to illustrate game-changing technology involved using an iPad and a high-speed connection to fully control three of the most powerful workstations engineers have access to. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. This allowed the company to claim carbon-neutral status for Texas-made products, a nice and strategic marketing win. Get early buy-in. Seek advice on the accounting.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

” Andrew Lowell, Lumiscape’s CFO, had thought it was a mistake to move exclusively to contracts. He had argued that the engineering team should be held responsible for making a product that customers could use correctly and that Cameron should push the engineers harder before changing the model. “Good idea. .

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

He renamed his company and put a team of engineers to work solving the product’s mechanical, food safety, cost, and design flaws. Competitive products came on the market, but none were as popular as the Express. Terranola’s market cap skyrocketed to $8.1 As CFO, A.J. Doom and Gloom. I know the investors will come around.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

So what you see is that criminals are going after health records because on the black market they can probably sell a health record of a person for about $50. If they only steal credit card data or a social security number, they might be able to sell that on the black market for $1. And then finally, Board-level involvement.

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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. ” So they did.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

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). Value is in the products and services themselves.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

But according to Dina Dublon, former CFO at JPMorgan Chase and currently HBS professor of management practice, the empowerment and deployment of embedded risk managers was part of formal risk management at the bank well before the financial crisis. But limiting the downside does not mean inhibiting risk-taking.

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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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2015

market has witnessed a substantial rise of activist investors. This typically means they look to re-engineer the balance sheet to increase shareholder yield, over the shortest amount of time possible, which typically ranges between six to twelve months. Over the last three years the U.S. Example: Jolly Inc. Example: MineMe Inc.

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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.

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