Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2023

Fisher Over the past 20 years, Fisher has developed trusted relationships with a broad cross-section of global business leaders and the companies they shape. She knows that the most successful companies—in terms of any metric—are led by diverse teams who understand and reflect their products, services, employees, and audiences.

Succession 74

Succession Open-book Leadership Styles Leadership 74

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Workers who adapt and grow with the organization in a time of accelerated change will be able to launch products and services that meet market needs. With creativity’s ties to innovation and the global economy experiencing a significant growth mode, this personal ability was transferable across a range of organizational needs.

Skills 145

Skills Emotional Intelligence CFO Power 145

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2014

I once worked for a large, global conglomerate that was in a death spiral and struggling to turn things around. Sales reps were trained in their products and how to sell them, scientists went to conferences, engineers were offered continued training to keep their skills up to date, and new managers were trained how to manage.

Training 230

Training Development Budgeting Learning Curve 230

Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A number of them have brought me back to work with them again as they move to their next level like from CFO to COO or, in another example, several times over the years as the leader moved from VP to SVP to business unit president to, finally, CEO of his company. There would not be an Eblin Group without her.

Development 235

Development Long-term Workshop Learning-by-Doing 235

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

How would your CFO or CIO handle this? We have become aware of vulnerabilities involving certain NETGEAR products and have issued a security advisory. We plan to release firmware updates that fix all vulnerabilities for all affected products that are within the security support period. An excerpt is below.

Bottom-up 94

Bottom-up Software Policies CIO 94

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When you started out you rightly focused on developing your unique new product, service, or solution. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. T homas Brattle Gannett, aka “Toby” is the global chair of N2Growth’s Board and CEO practice. How do you avoid this fate? Make the turn. Their organizational culture happens by default.

Delegation 243

Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 243

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

.&# Many studies find that 70% or better surveyed said their meetings are very often time-wasters and could be more productive. I have learned over the years to make meetings meaningful and productive, but it has become a developed skill over time. You first have to determine the purpose of the meeting. To be completed by March 31st.’

Press Release 140

Press Release Discount PR Magazine 140

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Through a myriad of questions our knowledge increases and we begin to play “what ifs” with potential customers as product solutions appear in our mind. Million; not big, but interesting.

Succession 70

Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

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.

CFO 9

CFO Charan Intangible Assets Human Resources 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

Just take a look at these excerpts from interviews with global leaders at McKinsey Quarterly — they read like transcripts from a therapy session. Even so, it’s a must-read because the interviewees lend a lot of emotion to the talk of growth and globalization. The Imprecise World of Accounting (CFO). It isn't easy.

CFO 12

CFO McKinsey Uncertainty Globalization 12

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

They’re global. First, how to do retainment, how to do recruitment in ways that are much more productive, and also to understand that sometimes losses actually come with a lot of benefits. What’s going on there, it’s a term that’s been used for a really long time and you sort of opened the book with a discussion of that.

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

In our work with clients across dozens of sectors over more than five years, we have found that the strongest CMO/CFO partnerships develop when both parties undertake five actions: 1. CMOs need to start building this relationship by having a clear understanding of what CFOs expect.

CFO 8

CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

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. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based based software company that went public just last year, I know this well. is that in the U.S.

CFO 12

CFO Software Engineering CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. The team had dropped the ball on inquiries from several retailers interested in its products by failing to coordinate getting them into the company’s system quickly. ” Nina asked.

Case Study 10

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. It’s a core part of the CFO’s work: Last year Oka personally met with 145 investors and his IR team collectively met with more than 500.

Company 8

Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

This now provides its marketing teams globally with predictive decision-making capabilities they never had before. This targeted effort showed that paid Facebook ads and the company’s own unpaid (organic) Facebook postings increased Intel brand and product search volume by 1.9%-2.3% 2.3% – which in turn led to increased PC sales.

Finance 10

Finance Marketing P&L ROI 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Here's an example*: Peter was the divisional CFO for the consumer unit of a global products company. In our case, Peter promoted one of his people to be the CFO, but reassigned some of his previous responsibilities to others. This too will create new relationship patterns that make it easier to let go of the past.

Management 11

Management Restructuring CFO Operations 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2013

CIOs are being tasked with managing internal business systems, cloud-based services, big data innovation, data security, and the 24x7 needs of global customers who access company data on personal devices. However, organizations with product differentiation strategies have higher performance when the CIO reports to the CEO.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The appointment of Mary Barra as CEO-to-be of General Motors is a signal to car-lovers everywhere that the company is serious about its products and vehicle innovation. She is a clearly a team player with the support of her peers, such as CFO Dan Ammann, promoted to president working with Barra.

Engineering 9

Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

global information solutions company. While many managers were developing new products and services for their own businesses, they were not leveraging innovation across the enterprise, and some were relying too much on acquisitions to drive both innovation and growth. product vs. operational) and referenced the same stages (e.g.

Innovation 8

Innovation Metrics Christensen Workshop 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

In fact, global spending on media is expected to reach $2.1 If you spend $1 today, it might take three years for the marketing to “work” and for the consumer to make a purchase, especially with products, like cars, that are purchased less frequently. As a result, CFOs and CMOs are often at odds. trillion in 2014.

ROI 8

ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

Costco's CFO, Richard Galanti stated, "People are eating in more and looking for fresh food, which, along with [our] low gas prices, is what are driving people into our stores more often. On the other hand, Warby Parker used the need to search for information about their product — eye glasses — as a strategy to build loyalty.

Retail 8

Retail Price Merchandising CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. The platform allows the exchange of digital information, services, and products across the power grid, allowing much greater efficiencies industrywide. This should be the dominant theme of discussions at the highest organizational levels in place of things like product quality and sales. Cut layers.

Short-term 8

Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2013

But as Ruth Malloy of the Hay Group said in a recent HBR blog post , more and more "global organizations like IBM and GE are embracing the matrix organizational model," so there''s a good chance you''ll encounter them as you look for jobs. And there are good reasons why they are so common.

Management 8

Management CFO Human Resources Report 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Fortune It was perhaps this summer''s most chilling business story: the suicide of Zurich Insurance Group CFO Pierre Wauthier, who left a note condemning the company''s chair, Josef Ackermann. First, the company persuaded doctors and hospitals that Tylenol is safer and more trustworthy than aspirin.

Review 8

Review CFO PR Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2011

People who have earned these belts drive projects with clear financial targets set at the top organization, with progress monitored by the CFO. Shell Oil's downstream (refining and retail) businesses have rolled out a global implementation of enterprise software SAP with standard global processes (as the missionaries of BPM would preach).

Six Sigma 14

Six Sigma BPM Process Hammer 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

These are different from the kind of product-safety scandals we grew accustomed to in the 20 th century. These executives lead teams in which globally dispersed people from multiple organizations collaborate on critical tasks. And yet most business schools and leadership development programs still focus on those.

Ethics 8

Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2015

They seem to be performing fine: putting in massive hours in meetings and calls across time zones, grinding out work while leading or contributing to global teams, and saying all the right things in meetings (though not in side-bar conversations). Ten years later, he was the global CFO of his firm.

CIO 8

CIO CFO Crisis Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

How about this, the boardroom version of Sophie''s Choice: "Who would you rather fire, the CFO or the CSO?". Another reason for the silence is the lack of uniform reporting requirements, not only in the United States but globally. More recently, the Global Payments breach in April 2012 cost $93.9 million, including $35.9

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

Just ask Gene Morphis, ex-CFO of clothing retailer Francesca's. Archiving leaders include Arkovi , Smarsh , and Global Relay , whose products enable searching stored communications by keywords, date, and other variables across different social networks. The risks and penalties are real.

Compliance 15

Compliance Media Compliance Officer Policies 15

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. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 In fact, CEOs avoid IT like the plague.

CEO 8

CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2013

Anything they spot is reported directly, in writing, to Greenberg and a few other executives, including CFO Howard Smith. A guy like that might just have had a shot at reining in AIG Financial Products before it helped unleash a global financial meltdown.

Insurance 8

Insurance Long-term Short-term CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

Andrew Fastow, the former CFO, was sentenced to six years in prison. My research work suggests that Samsung’s superior employee loyalty was key to surpassing Sony as a global electronics firm. Without learning from the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s , Samsung wouldn’t be the global powerhouse it is now.

Reputation 8

Reputation Crisis Loyalty Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

We have reviewed hundreds of corporate announcements and websites, interviewed numerous leadership experts, and conducted an analysis of CEO changes and successions over the past five years at S&P 500 and Global 100 companies. A fast-track CEO succession should be the product of a deliberate strategy, not of desperation.

CEO 9

CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

In fact, since our business is a global leader in assembling rich data sets that allow companies to benchmark almost every imaginable driver of corporate performance, we’d argue that there is too little analytic rigor in most areas of corporate management – particularly those which involve teams and people.

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Company Short-term Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Lena Klug, the CEO, was proud of the company’s global reach. Many people were willing to work for free because they believed in his mission: to create positive, nonviolent, commercially viable products that reward empathy and caring rather than aggression and revenge. Some of our best product ideas came from this group of—”.

Company 8

Company CFO Proposal Engineering 8