Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2018

Nikon, the legendary Japanese camera maker, provides a textbook study in how smart managers can work with strategic investors to transform a struggling business. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

Since its founding just eight years ago, Uber has become one of the best-known brands in the world, has presence in over 80 countries, has market share reported at 77% in its core U.S. A driver survey this year showed that Uber drivers are now less satisfied than Lyft drivers. Khosrowshahi has much working in his favor.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

In the decades since Deng Xiaoping instituted market reform, millions of women have profitably followed Deng's dictate that "to get rich is glorious." Sixty-five percent of the more than 1,000 college-educated women surveyed consider themselves very ambitious, compared to 36 percent of their U.S. But the similarities end there.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And we surveyed over 2,000 individuals who do modern work inside of large enterprises. Every year over the last five years, respondents to this survey say that they spend only 40 percent of their time doing their real job. The first is this notion that the challenges at work, the challenges of managing modern work, really are a crisis.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

But today, acquiring and interpreting customer data inherently must involve both the marketing and IT departments. In fact, recent research [PDF] conducted by the CMO Council, suggests that this process should start with the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and the Chief Information Officer (CIO). Understand the Customer Holistically.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A 2010 IBM survey found that 79% of global chief executives foresaw "high or very high complexity" over the next five years, but only 49% felt their organization was prepared to handle it. Access to finance , designing operational processes and systems , and building strong, talented management teams are just a few obstacles that many cite.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Although women make up 40% of the global workforce , they hold only 24% of senior management roles around the world — a figure that has not changed significantly over the past decade. We recently conducted a study of more than 10,000 senior executives who were competing for top management jobs in the UK.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2016

They had framing conversations with the CEO and CFO early on to discuss any financial or operational challenges. ” His experience gibes with the findings of a new survey that PwC conducted on corporate renewable buying. Get early buy-in. ” Find the right locations for the business. Seek advice on the accounting.

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Energy Industry Finance CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

A study of CFO surveys shows that corporate financial professionals are way too sure of their ability to predict the future. Over the course of a decade, the CFOs were asked to state the range of one-year stock-market forecasts that they thought would lead them to be right 80% of the time. Harvey of Duke.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

People who respond to your surveys probably differ in important ways from those who don't. Your CFO and finance team can take a leadership role here. On the macro level, you can estimate the value of achieving customer loyalty leadership in terms of market share gains or revenue growth. Don't do that!

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

” Surveys consistently show that we aspire to buy responsibly , and we even say we’ll pay more for environmental or socially preferable products. The collaboration, which the NGO Forum for the Future is managing, has high aspirations. ” was a profound “sort of.” So why are sustainable products surging now?

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Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Organizations, hiring managers, and HR need to keep legal compliance in mind when they add psychometric tests to their pre-employment screening system. Know the law.

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Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Roughly 18% of companies currently use personality tests in the hiring process, according to a survey conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management. Organizations, hiring managers, and HR need to keep legal compliance in mind when they add psychometric tests to their pre-employment screening system. Know the law.

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Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 25, 2011

This is my plea for the “meeters&# of the world to break from the pack and start becoming “doers.&# Many studies find that 70% or better surveyed said their meetings are very often time-wasters and could be more productive. For example, ‘To decide on a marketing plan and determine the next steps for everyone in the group.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Marketers get no respect, writes Ivey Business School professor Niraj Dawar on INSEAD's blog. Yes, marketing faces a steep uphill battle its quest for a seat at the table of valued corporate functions. So what can marketing do to regain respect? And most people still back a free-market economy.

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Supply Chain Real Estate ROI CFO 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

So be sure you’re in good standing with your manager before making the request. ” Consider what will worry your manager, and then think of ways to preempt those concerns. “Your manager needs for other people to not see your schedule as a four-day week.” Reflect on your motivations. Every other Friday?

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Proposal How To Case Study Motivation 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

One survey of IT decision makers found that the average cost of a successful spear-phishing attack is $1.6 A cybercriminal might impersonate a CFO or CEO, and then send an email to accounts payable asking for a wire transfer, or to HR requesting a dump of employee tax information. Whom do they work with?

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