Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Middle-market businesses often assume they’ll be overlooked by attackers, whether due to a large number of similar companies, or a lack of enticing assets. While cybersecurity prevention could be vastly improved by greater information sharing, some surveys of CSOs indicate that only one in seven attacks are reported to authorities.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 29, 2014

In the July/August issue of HBR , Ram Charan argues that the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) role should be eliminated, with HR responsibilities funneled in two separate directions — administration , led by traditional HR-types, reporting to the CFO; and talent strategy , led by high-potential line managers, reporting to the corner office.

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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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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

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. Heini Wehrle/BIA/Minden Pictures/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Eastman Kodak is the textbook case for failing to prioritize an innovation agenda; business schools around the world study the ramifications of the company’s ill-fated decision to ignore the digital photography market until it was too late. The Future of Financial Services.

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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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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

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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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. And then you think about how new entrants come into the market. Alex Shootman, Workfront.

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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

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. At Allianz, the program was initiated and supported by the company CFO.

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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. For years, the answer to the question “Do people really want to buy more sustainable products?” ” was a profound “sort of.”

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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! Organized learning.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

For example, the CFO of a biotech company recalled that she had been considered for a CEO position. Women’s decisions to remove themselves from competition after having been rejected is driven partly by their experience of being a negatively stereotyped minority in the executive labor market.

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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. This number is growing at a rate of 10-15% a year according to many industrial and organizational psychologists, as well as the Association for Test Publishers. Test the tests.

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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. This number is growing at a rate of 10-15% a year according to many industrial and organizational psychologists, as well as the Association for Test Publishers. Test the tests.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

Two years ago, when Mark Scott took the job as chief marketing officer at Apixio, a digitized medical records company, he knew that his commute would be bad. “I lead the marketing team, and I am on the executive team,” he says. “Now even our CEO and CFO work from home from time to time,” he says.

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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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