In the CEO Afterlife
SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. Now I must admit that my Nabob Foods and Jacobs Suchard alumni would be the first to tell you that marketing occupied that prime piece of bone real estate.
LDRLB
SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
The day the Jacobs Suchard (now part of Kraft Foods ) Board of Directors promoted me to the C-Suite, they strongly suggested I align myself with the CFO. Now I must admit that my Nabob Foods and Jacobs Suchard alumni would be the first to tell you that marketing occupied that prime piece of bone real estate.
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Tanveer Naseer
JULY 12, 2016
The hubris displayed by Skilling, along with founder Kenneth Lay and CFO Andrew Fastow, didn’t just destroy Enron. Formerly the Managing Partner of Trammel Crow, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers, he is chairman of the investment firm he founded in 1995. Kaplan worked for 25 years at Newsweek and Fortune.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 31, 2017
After working with a coach, a CFO realized that she was not particularly good at, nor did she much enjoy, managing people in a large, globally dispersed finance team. Consider the case of a company where Real Estate had historically reported in to the General Counsel’s office, given the focus on managing and negotiating leases.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 31, 2017
Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. This makes it difficult to justify investment in change management with the rigor that a data-driven CEO or CFO might expect.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 8, 2014
economy (especially the real estate market) fell off the end of the table. To use a different company example, one growing financial services firm’s new CFO learned this in 2004. The CFO couldn’t understand why. If the CFO has a realistic budget, it’s much easier for a midsized company to borrow money.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 30, 2016
As the CFO of Macy’s put it recently, “ “We’re frankly scratching our heads.” There’s too much physical real estate for the crowds, which is one reason why stores are downsizing and closing. It’s standing in the path of what Schumpeter called a gale of creative destruction.
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