HR Digest

AUGUST 29, 2020

” Earlier in July, the company cut 900 jobs in the UK, citing a downward curve in market demand. “We went into the bad crisis with more people relative to the demand,” the company stated. “The crisis brought additional strain on the businesses because of lower demand and reduced national attrition. .

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Attrition Crisis CFO Long-term 52

Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2015

You cannot dare do the same thing as an entrepreneur when you are still the HR manager, marketing guru, office manager, janitor, tech guy, sales staff, CFO and CEO. Yes, sometimes you may need to work for more hours, but all this is per your own terms. Let’s flip over to the bright side of the coin: It’s rewarding.

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Entrepreneur CFO Maturity Long-term 150

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Investors are increasingly seeking firms with long-term growth strategies, rather than ones focused on managing short-term earnings to boost the stock price. 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.

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Short-term Long-term CFO Wiseman 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 31, 2015

There seems to be a confusion about the meaning of the terms buying decision journey, buying path, buy-cycle, helping buyers buy, and buying decisions. Mention your thoughts to the VPs of Sales and Marketing as you’d all need to share budget. Mention your thoughts to the VPs of Sales and Marketing as you’d all need to share budget.

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CFO Consensus Budgeting Brand 50

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Sure, a disclosure is immensely beneficial in terms of buttressing industrial safeguards, national and global security, and customer protection – not to mention mitigating the longer-term repercussions of an attack – but so too can disclosure exact lasting damage on a bottom line. Fighting back.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 75

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 7, 2014

He was a recognized salesman, as long as consumer demand was high. As the sales continued to drop and production pushed back Mark’s inability to keep control and adjust to the changes in the market became more and more apparent. Consulting and examining this with the company CEO, CFO, COO and Sr. What do you think?

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Charisma COO CFO Executive Coaching 129

The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

For example, A successful CFO is likely to have such MAPs (Motivation and Attitudinal patterns) as — strong motivation toward procedures over options; a preference for solving problems over focus on goals; and a high past time orientation that drives focus on traditions, past experience and benchmarks.

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Motivation Leadership McClelland Long-term 100

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2017

Companies spend a lot on marketing communications. And more fundamentally, does marketing actually work? Marketing ROI analysis can help answer those questions. What is Marketing ROI, and How Do Companies Use It? Avery explains that it is also referred to by its acronym, MROI, or as return on marketing investment (ROMI).

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ROI Marketing Marketing Mix Short-term 8

Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2016

In “ Good to Great ”, Jim Collins lamented the trend of boards that become “enamored with charismatic CEOs,” a tendency that, he concluded, was “most damaging” for “the long-term health of companies.” The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron.

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Kaplan CEO Real Estate CFO 100

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Long-term, this is not good for the survival of a company. This will also help in establishing the reality of installation, ease-of-use, and long-term serviceability. Make an appointment with the CFO. Marketing & Sales buy gitomer buygitomer Jeffrey Gitomer marketing and sales strategydriven'

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Proposal Price Long-term Customer Loyalty 58

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. As an ingredient brand, Intel often struggled to link marketing to P&L impact. Inside Intel.

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Finance Marketing P&L ROI 13

Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Matt Sweetwood, branding expert, defines personal branding as: " Personal branding is the practice of people marketing themselves and their careers as brands -- the ongoing process of establishing a prescribed image or impression in the mind of others about an individual." Your personal brand is the mark you leave on the world.

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Brand Examples Career Godin 68

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 7, 2012

How long will it be before pink paper and pounding presses are mere memories," he asks? Preston has his doubts: cloudy online economics and the power of print in marketing make a digital-only future still seem somewhat suspect in the near term. But is the end of the print edition really nigh? BONUS BITS: Dining and Wining.

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McCallum CFO Covey Long-term 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Marketing is in the midst of an ROI revolution. The arrival of advanced analytics and plentiful data have allowed marketers to demonstrate return on investment with a degree of precision that’s never been possible before. To date, however, the reality of marketing analytics has fallen short of the promise.

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CFO Short-term Long-term Benchmarking 8

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

LDRLB

APRIL 21, 2014

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. Now it turns out maybe the power dynamic has shifted a little bit and the talented people really don’t want to be constrained in that. Why is that so important? ORLY: Yes, absolutely.

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Human Capital Open-book CFO Innovation 60

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Businesses need to organize around long-term strategies for growth and partnership in a sustainable way. The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2014

There are instances when it might be perfectly legitimate and value enhancing to issue earnings guidance in an effort to inform the market about material disruptions, shifts in the business model etc., but on the whole, the practice is not a helpful way of building a sustainable business that is geared to succeed in the long-term.

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Short-term Long-term How To CFO 8

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. ” The company took note and duly committed to reducing costs at a rate exceeding market contraction.

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Company ROIC CFO Restructuring 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 28, 2011

But all too often, the long lag time between recognizing the need for a new solution and actually purchasing and implementing it leads to lost sales, lost opportunities, and lost productivity. Decision facilitation” enables a smoother, faster process that leads to a better outcome for both the marketing manager and the design firm.

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Servant Leader Newsletter Resources CFO 50

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.

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Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO. Take Denise, a talented marketing executive who has helped reinvigorate some of the world’s most iconic retail brands. So, why do these dangerous pandas go unaddressed for so long? Peer relationships.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2017

-based companies, I’ve spoken with hundreds of high-performing working parents, and, on the hunt for real, feasible solutions, asked the same questions again and again: What advice has been the most valuable to you over the long term as a working parent? Think long-term to stay in the game.

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Stress Long-term Short-term Contingency Plans 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. So is John Rice, the head of global operations, along with CFO Jeffrey Bornstein. Then it wasn’t.

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Ries Long-term Short-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

It had been a long day at the company’s Birmingham, England, headquarters, and in the early evening the two were going over the evaluations of each of Lance’s direct reports. 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. Lance sighed.

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

That opportunistic approach to financial markets has defined Amazon since it went public in 1997. And while it has certainly burned many buyers of Amazon shares through the years — Amazon's stock price took a decade to get back to its 2009 peak — the long-run returns have been spectacular. In Morten T. Nice timing, huh?

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Training Bond Christensen Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

There is a permanent new dynamism and volatility in the job market, and the cost of experimentation has fallen dramatically. Over the long term, that is a career strategy with diminishing returns. First, by staying a generalist, you're actually limiting your potential — and narrowing your options — the long run.

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Career Long-term Christensen CFO 14

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. It doesn't matter if you are an administrative assistant or a CFO; all employees need this common experience. Not just managers?"

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CFO Software Engineering CEO 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

The result is the reconstitution or destruction of industries, creation of new market spaces, and reshaping of old industry ecosystems. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. ” When she sensed that the experts were not listening to each other, she intervened. Tom Watson, Jr.

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Short-term How To Venture Capitalist CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Financial Times journalist Wolf once extolled the successes of globalized markets and painted dissenters who worried about the risk to national fortunes as wild-eyed radicals. The world's major economies have been engaged in a strategy of irreversible interconnection for so long that there's no turning back.

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Porter Globalization Supply Chain Politics 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

Second, signing long-term power agreements for 15 to 20 years is hard for any company to swallow, and they often struggle with how to handle the accounting (is the contract a lease? So the PPA terms that retailers and tech companies sign have not worked for the heavy guys. Is it a liability, an asset, or something else?).

Energy 8

Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

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.

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Learning-by-Doing Price Bottom-up Finance 62

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2017

Sales people cannot just go to training for a few days and gain mastery of this skill set, any more than an accountant going to a week-long course can emerge with the skills of a CFO. When sellers do it right, that strategy comes to life.

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Chemicals Consultative CFO Video 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2013

My consulting firm works with many successful market leaders with amazing market shares — 30%, 50%, 70% and even 90%. One example of a company in this situation is Gillette, which has approximately a 70% share of the shaving market. For decades, the shaving market was men''s facial hair removal.

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Price Franchising Marketing CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2017

But the ones who really understand the issue see gender balance as not just a numbers game but part of a broader, more strategic cultural shift that includes developing leadership teams representing geographically diffuse markets. Some of those searches, like the one, three years ago, for our CFO, took twice as long as normal.

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Diversity CFO Globalization Video 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Lotta Tindal, the chief marketing officer for the Dutch hospitality group Ervaring Hotels & Resorts, hadn’t wanted to come to the presentation, but Gerard Bakker, Ervaring’s CFO, had twisted her arm. But Lotta wasn’t yet ready to gamble a significant portion of her marketing budget on it. Dan continued.

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Case Study Travel Hotels NPV 8