N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe you’re prepping for the IPO. Maybe your CFO is a family friend. And, you operate in a fishbowl. You came up with an awesome idea. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company. You got funding. Maybe you’re looking for Series B or C funding now. Congratulations! You’re ready to scale or go public.

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Delegation Maturity CEO Execution 203

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2014

However, cash flow from operations had shifted from positive to negative, the company’s cash pile was dwindling, and the new product would demand R&D investment. BlueArc’s CFO, Rick Martig, and other executives gathered market data to support the investment in the mid-tier data storage product. Forecasting acumen.

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CFO Venture Funding IPO Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

operations in favor of financial performance. It will be interesting to see how a former CFO will face up to these formidable challenges, complicated further by reports that the ECB isn’t allowing the Volkswagen group to fully benefit from the central bank’s “cheap” money.

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CFO Crisis Mass Marketing IPO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

It’s far from the only case of a failure to embrace a more digital approach; the larger shift to digital is changing the way every industry operates. Some industries, like photography and media, were impacted earlier. Others, like financial services, are only now experiencing this change in earnest.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Back at Calidad de Vida's corporate offices that afternoon, Gloria asked Daniel Hernandez, her CFO, and Diana Correa, her deputy director, to join her in the company's lone conference room, a windowless space made cheerful by photos of smiling elderly people on the walls and the same bright green chairs found in the centers.

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Case Study Franchising Health Care Follow-up 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

You used to be able to track everything with an Excel spreadsheet, personally designed by your CFO; now you’ve got an SAP installation in its place, supported by an entire IT department. In 2000, with more than $100 million in negative cash flow, the company agreed to be acquired by Star Cruises, a leading cruise operator in Asia.

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Company IPO Price Loyalty 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Employees and other constituents should expect HR to hold leaders accountable for fiduciary and strategic risks, just as a CFO would be expected to hold leaders accountable for a risky pattern of using corporate funds or resources. Are these acceptable growing pains? In one word: No.

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Compliance Hedge Human Capital Finance 11