Mike Cardus
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
The finance team in a Health Care Company. Was struggling with sales representatives and project managers turning in expense and budget reports on-time…They told me “We have tried everything and our CFO is tired to putting out fires for us.”. The finance team in groups of 3 flip charted those responses. Follow up 3 months later.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 15, 2016
This, in turn, is triggering a shift in the perceived role of the CFO — from bean counters to planters of seed corn. Redefining the CFO role. After all, it’s the CFO who typically sets expectations about growth to investors and then allocates resources to ensure their organizations deliver.
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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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 27, 2015
Sema, a finance manager at the Dutch-British financial services consultancy Dirksen-Hall, had recently transferred from its Ankara office to its headquarters, in Amsterdam. She and Bernhard had been chatting with a few of his colleagues at the party when Dirksen-Hall’s CFO, Harold van der Linde, approached. ‘Help!
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 30, 2017
market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Organizations under stress cause people to focus more on avoiding blame than on taking risks and assuming responsibility to solve problems.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 25, 2015
We cannot stress this enough. Communication will be key to this partnership because the CEO is the person who can help finance your future experiments. You do not work for the CEO, or alongside the CTO, CIO, and CFO. You address conflict head-on with one focus in mind: secure the money and resources you need to test your ideas.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 16, 2016
Betty, the head of sales, is preparing her budget for next year, and she’s meeting with Amit, the director of finance. Betty’s draft budget is due to the CFO first thing tomorrow morning, so she sends Amit a meeting request to discuss what’s going on.
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