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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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. About the Author.

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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. meet with CFO (manages the Tech department). Long meeting to get consensus. Majority decides to use vendors to do all the work rather than in house, but need buy-in from CFO.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” CFO Jon Verbeck gives us a major pointer for increasing our profits, and helps leaders understand these important elements of running a department or business. I am going to walk you through today how to implement the Profit First strategy into your nonprofit to build long-term financial sustainability.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2013

It''s time for CIOs to move beyond their roles as chief technology officers, and embrace the name with all of its implications: Chief Information Officer. At the same time, technology budgets are static or contracting, and non-IT execs want more attention to cost-cutting. Because no one is managing the store. How did we get here?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The answer involves radically reframing one of the mainstays of the C-suite — the role of the CFO. It’s no longer adequate or acceptable for CFOs to simply focus on managing the financial risks of a company. Some CFOs are working with their CISOs and CIOs to actually model their cyber exposure gap.

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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.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

If you’re successful, your brand will leave an impact long after you’re gone. It's an extension of yourself that lingers even long after that person has left your website, book, show, or other piece of content. It’s shown through the actions you take, and the persona you portray. Noticing a theme here?

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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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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.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2014

Likewise, marketing wants to clearly quantify the impact of its long-term branding efforts while finance is more focused on macro-economic drivers of marketing performance, such as interest rates, employment levels, inflation and retail sales. This has spurred re-thinks that include changes to key executive relationships.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Use technology to provide quick, efficient customer service. As long as you make sure your messaging is detailed and easy to understand, your customers will appreciate the quick service these technologies provide. Making cuts to employee perks or customer service perks is not a long-term plan for survival.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Nance Dicciani, to head our European operations in 1999 (first in the senior ranks in our industry to hold such a senior position); a Venezuelan (Rueben Salazar) and Korean (YiHyon Paik) to head our operations in Japan; an African-American (Charles Hill) as CFO of our subsidiary in Japan; and the list goes on and on.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2012

Many people assume it's all about moving to a "pay-as-you-go" (PAYG) model and while this is certainly a big piece of it, it also involves operating versus capital expenses, subscriptions to services, and customers paying for outcomes (not technology). As long as they can figure out a way to pay for it.

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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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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Sensors, the cloud, mobile and broadband wireless, and other such technologies are increasing the flow of digitized information exponentially. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. It is the algorithms that will create value for the business. This is not guesswork. Tom Watson, Jr.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2016

Some localities had bought lights but failed to fully utilize the accompanying technology, which meant they couldn’t service them properly or achieve the hoped-for energy savings. It would position Lumiscape’s technology platform for growth as the smart-cities movement showed signs of taking off. But not here , he thought.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

the CEO’s or CFO’s), but rather serve the needs of our internal project sponsors (usually at the CXO, EVP, and SVP level). To succeed long term, winning on price alone is not sufficient. Like any firm in need of business development, we build relationships with executives across the company, and pitch proposals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Simon had been a chief executive for 15 years, and CFO before he was 30. ” But not for long, as lead director of Johnson & Johnson, chairman of Save the Children, and a guest lecturer at Harvard, she found work that gave her purpose and passion. Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. Partner with your partner.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2018

Ultimately, Nokia initiated a radical strategic renewal in 2013 by divesting its mobile phone business and focusing on manufacturing network equipment and software, patent licensing, and opportunities in wearable technology and the internet of things.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This bias also explains why a CFO may be perceived as cheap by disposition or why a team might attribute its internal conflicts to incompatible personalities instead of resulting from organizational incentives to compete rather than collaborate with one another. Talent management'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Bruno West*, a senior executive in technology, was responsible for a post merger integration team that included members from both of the pre-merger companies. "It They spoke highly of his experience and his long history with the organization. Harry eventually left the new company but the two parted on good terms.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2016

If your strategy relies heavily on aggressive M&A, for example, do you really want a CFO who doesn’t command a salary higher than the norm? Obviously, no one wants to miss a short-term forecast or sales goal. times those who mentioned investors in the same manner.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2014

Yes, digital technology enables a lot of unbundling. What follows are edited excerpts from our conversation, starting with Barksdale’s account of where the bundling aphorism came from: Barksdale: It actually was a quote at the end of a very long road show when we were taking Netscape public, a trip through Europe that ended in London.

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