Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. The trust of many in a system that has been the most spectacular generator of innovation in history was damaged by the unbridled greed of a few. Hewitt at John Deere.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Lead on Purpose

JULY 10, 2009

The answer to this question varies greatly depending on experience, industry and many other factors. Too often we leave the worries and cares about money to the CFO’s office. Achieving business success seems highly complex at face value. However, the principles that lead to success are not necessarily complex or difficult.

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Succession CFO Ethics Taylorism 133

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

ORLY: Talent wars are everywhere in every industry in every region. Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?”

Human Capital 60

Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Orientation toward innovation and creativity. For different industries, these 2 patterns may play a more important role for leaders. Decision making style. Requirements for change and variety. Dominant motivation driver. Levels of strategic and visionary thinking. Relationship to norms/rules. And much more. Shared Responsibility.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2012

This ongoing struggle raises an issue that is endemic in such acquisitions: In search of innovation, big companies often buy other companies whose most innovative days are almost at an end. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now.

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Innovation Company Biotechnology CFO 12

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

The following personal brand statement examples come from a variety of people across numerous industries and professions. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." ​ ​1. Gentlemen: The same goes for you.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2016

The 1990s saw the rise of the strategic CFO, and more recently many companies have created a chief strategy officer (CSO) position. Such friction is destructive — and a huge missed opportunity, because the CFO and the strategy head are far more effective when they collaborate. Tapping the most promising growth spots.

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Strategy CFO Finance Short-term 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. The centrality of innovation to the future — electric cars, hybrids, self-driving cars, and beyond — makes her experience pivotal.

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Engineering CFO Industry Bureaucracy 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

After a morning innovation workshop at the bucolic R&D campus of a top-tier but tradition-rich technology giant, the lunchtime conversation with the Lab’s leadership turned strategic. A charismatic CEO, imported from outside the industry, was making bold, expensive investments in new markets. What should they do?

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CFO Innovation CEO Airlines 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2011

Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. The CFO's skepticism was proved correct, and I lost all credibility. The machines were given to a friend, who sold them at a garage sale (I couldn't throw them away, because the CFO wouldn't authorize the $50 per machine "green" disposal fee.).

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Technology CIO CFO TCO 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 1, 2018

And sameness blocks performance and innovation. Diversity, on the other hand, spurs innovation. In research spanning decades, Columbia professor Katherine Phillips has repeatedly found that, when tasked to innovate, teams that include diverse members and that value the contributions of all their members outperform homogenous teams.

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Power Management Diversity CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2016

Given the role analytics has played in reshaping industries and rewarding innovative adopters over the last two decades, it is surprising how frequently we are asked: “Does this analytics stuff really work?” We only included companies that had implemented a major analytics initiative with an innovation or similar agenda.

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CFO Competitive Advantage Budgeting CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud. Innovation at GE was on a roll.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

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. Chief "Innovation" Officer: Looking for disruptive technologies to drive innovation. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

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CIO CFO Chief Information Officer Business Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Every industry will soon be driven by digitization and every winning company will be using algorithms, or mathematical rules for processing information, to shape the end-to-end customer experience. The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In research spanning 20 years, we closely examined 36 companies in eight industries to find out why companies are struggling. Insurance, a very analytics-intensive industry, saw nearly half of CAOs changing roles over an 18-month period.). ” Create an environment of rapid innovation. But poor ROI is only part of the story.

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CEO Competitive Advantage ROI CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

trillion on health care , or more than $10,000 per person, which is twice as much as any other industrialized country. In that brutal environment, a handful of private Indian hospitals, led by compassionate doctors, have found innovative ways to drive down health care costs to unimaginable levels while maintaining high quality.

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Health Care Insurance Cost Price 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

We are in the midst of a digital business transformation in all industries. Despite outward differences by industry, organizational size, and geography, we''ve seen certain commonalities in those who successfully lead corporate IT amid rapid change. Organizational DNA.

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CIO Succession Fast Follower Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2011

And as a former CFO I also understand the preoccupation with numbers, but during my time as a CEO it has become clearer to me than ever, that numbers don't tell the whole story. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. As a CEO leading a global U.S.-based

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CFO Software Engineering CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2014

Some recent CEO appointments in these industries include Yahoo!’s The company is anticipating disruptive or disorienting forces, such as unfamiliar regulatory pressures, industry consolidation, complex emerging technologies, or changing consumer behavior.

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CEO Contingency Plans Telecommunications Planning 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 16, 2013

No advertising innovation: The "I'm a Mac/"I'm a PC" campaign ran for three and a half years without a refresh. In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. If Apple is to maintain the level of success it's achieved in the past 15 years, it may need to enter those industries in the next 15. No iPad mini at all.

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Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Often citing the maxim that "cash is king", CFOs know that strategic cash can enhance shareholder value in various ways. As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. It can: Save Taxes.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

The same investment logic holds for Apple's innovation ecosystem; the flow and fortune of its third-party apps development alone would yield valuable insight. Does our data suggest exciting investment options in adjacent or complementary industries? Who would want to invest with us? Would we do better as traders or investors?

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Hedge Core Competence CFO ROI 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

Everyone is familiar with the primary methods Gillette used to grow: It innovated via technology (with the Sensor, Mach 3, and Fusion razors), and in 2001 it formally expanded into the women''s leg shaving market with a new brand called Venus. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. What if you're in a contracting industry like newspapers?

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Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

The Internet is apparently taking down yet another industry. The retail industry is getting “reinvented,” as we describe in our new book Matchmakers. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble.

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Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Cost cutting is difficult in any industry, but it’s particularly challenging in healthcare, where organizations are simultaneously undergoing a major transformation to improve care and the patient experience. Banner’s leaders made a conscious choice to eschew industry benchmarks in the cost initiative. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2012

In my last post , I argued that you should start process innovation by asking front-line workers how to improve their jobs. It's not easy, to be sure, but some companies have managed to spur their employees to innovation by observing a few principles. What if you're in a contracting industry like newspapers?

Attrition 11

Attrition CFO Deming Outsourcing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” So one of the other things you see happening in music now is actually the music industry getting reconfigured and being split out. Barksdale: The same thing’s happened to the cable industry with these “over the top” systems.

How To 14

How To Technology Industry Venture Capitalist 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. Anytime the giants of an industry really start competing and collaborating on sustainability, it’s a very good development.

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2011

It's true that Apple's success in the last decade has been built on a remarkable string of innovations, which seems harder to "codify." According to Fortune Magazine , only one executive at the firm — the CFO — has P&L responsibility. Apple employees accept that the firm is a meritocracy.

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P&L Supply Chain Retail COO 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

2, behind the late Steve Jobs, with an industry-adjusted shareholder return of 12,266% during his tenure. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. In Morten T. Nobody complains.

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

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.”

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2012

His blog , which is now one of the most influential in the industry, showcases his subject matter expertise and experience. And like the Founders, he leverages his knowledge and experience by communicating big ideas — social innovation, video surveillance, making incredible movie special effects — that get attention.

How To 12

How To Chief Technology Officer Audience Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Instead she was ramping up mobile-banking operations—which competitors were also doing—and looking to experiment with something more innovative: partnerships with supermarkets and electronics stores that would allow FDM to set up kiosks within them. The industry is changing. “Oh, yes. ” The Risks of Not Acting.

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Case Study CEO Banking Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. go to the system that almost all other industrial nations have of just taxing people where they earn the money. When I’m talking to corporate CEOs, CFOs, and board members, I don’t see the major multinationals planning to bring that cash back to the United States.

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2013

The two were executives of Beacon Car Rental, one of the industry''s most established and respected brands. Later that afternoon Annabel Howard, Beacon''s CFO and Henry''s boss, leaned back in her chair. "I''m Their industry was struggling. He laughed; Henry grimaced. Henry was the senior vice president of operations.

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