Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. and (ii) how can digital firms improve their financial reports to communicate sources of value creation in their businesses?

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

US News and World Report – One of America’s 25 Best Leaders. Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. US News and World Report #1 Best Hospital in the United States – Fortune ‘100 Best Companies to Work For,’ 14 consecutive years.

Executive Coaching 70

Executive Coaching CEO Magazine Banking 70

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2018

With rare exception, they’re not satisfied with the status quo and are driven to innovate and change. And yet that drive for innovation fails to reach most people on their team — at least not in a way that employees can act on. Digital technology should be freeing us up to be more innovative and productive.

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Innovation Content Team Crisis 8

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

But even if you don’t have a team of direct reports, we are all leaders who come from different walks of life with varied experiences that shape our core values. Unlike a business, your personal brand doesn't have hours of operation, it simply is 24/7/365. ​ ​1. Czar "I rescue troubled companies.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2013

CMOs and CFOs don't always see eye-to-eye. An article published in CFO.com indicates that in one study, more CMOs report sharing marketing information with their CFOs than CFOs reported receiving. We found that we shared a passion for finance, the stock market, innovation, and marketing (and, candidly, politics).

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CFO Advertising Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2012

Constellation has developed an Innovation Center , an unconventional permanent facility within its headquarters. People come from different locations to the Innovation Center for "ideation" (brainstorming), decision-making, and planning. What's distinctive about having a physical innovation center? It sends a message.

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Brainstorming CFO Innovation Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. “Numbers that numb” has become an all-too-common description for performance reports in many organizations.

Health Care 11

Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Insight Center.

Industry 11

Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

The dispatch included disturbing and potentially illegal managerial activities, such as Fowler’s boss telling her she could be fired for reporting the behaviors. But with the departures of a number of high-level HR leaders in late 2016, head of operations Ryan Graves largely took on the head HR role in addition to his other duties.

Compliance 10

Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 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.” The Future of Operations. Insight Center.

Constraint 8

Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2015

There is a widely held belief that strategic decisions are made collectively by an organization’s executive team, the senior executives who report directly to the CEO. One CEO told me about a direct report who had an impeccable track record but whose monthly reporting was never clear.

How To 8

How To CEO P&L Uncertainty 8

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. But by and large, for years, Walmart has taken, in my view, a mainly operational, cost-reducing, brand-fitting approach to sustainability.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2016

Many firms operating brick and mortar stores are in trouble. As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” And in the years that followed, conventional retailers’ confidence in the future increased as Census continued to report puny online sales.

Retail 8

Retail Real Estate B2B CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

While the top reason for leaving was low compensation (57% reported it), nearly as important was frustration with a lack of professional development opportunities, which half of respondents cited as their reason for departure. For example, Cesar Bocanegra started as VP for operations, then asked to take on human resources as well.

Development 8

Development Mentor COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2012

At the corporate level, the group CFO is a woman. Nestle is not yet a leader in gender balancing, but they are an innovator. In subsequent blogs I'll report on what the initiative has delivered in the major countries where Nestle has operations. Women head two of Nestle's five global Strategic Business Units.

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Leadership Pipeline CFO Committee Globalization 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2013

He had an amazing legacy: Senior VP of Retail Operations at Apple pioneering the concept of the Apple Retail stores and the Genius Bar. And indeed he had a very innovative strategy for J. Recently, Costco reported a 39% jump in quarterly earnings. Before that, he was the VP of merchandising for Target (or "Tar-jay").

Retail 10

Retail Price Merchandising CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2011

Air Products, for example, tripled corporate productivity (hard profit-and-loss benefits) from 2003 to 2006, and boosted operating return on net assets from 9.5% When tradeoffs had to be made, solid departmental reporting relationships trumped dotted process relationships. And they succeeded wildly. from 2004 to 2007.

Process 15

Process Champy Competitive Advantage Hammer 15

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. Also, Consumer Reports issued a "does not recommend" on the iPhone 4 (in 2010). In 2004, Apple's CFO, Fred Anderson, left the company. Bad quality control: MobileMe, antenna-gate. Bad product reviews: One word: Ping.

Marketing 10

Marketing Stage-Gate Advertising Price 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Banner’s leaders used its G&A success to extend the optimization program to its clinical operations, starting with Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center, the system’s flagship teaching hospital in Phoenix. Follow the Leading Health Care Innovation insight center on Twitter @HBRhealth. Leading Health Care Innovation.

Cost 8

Cost Health Care Six Sigma Insourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

In March 2000, Barron's reported that 51 Internet companies were burning cash so fast that they'd be broke by the end of the end of the year. In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth.

Training 9

Training Bond Christensen Long-term 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. Similar to what we’ve learned about creating cultures of innovation, it takes more than a handful of leaders contributing creative brilliance; it takes leaders driving the focus on and readiness for change that going digital requires.

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