Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Attempting to deal with an attack on the down low can earn private enterprises a reputation as easy marks, and provoke subsequent attacks. Whether you are a CFO of an international, publicly-traded conglomerate, or a mid-sized regional business, it is well within your portfolio to do everything possible to properly prepare for the threat.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC). Compliance.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Similarly, poor practices that allow a business to incur technical debt open the door to cybersecurity exploits that can bankrupt a business financially or through loss of trust and reputation in the eyes of its customers. How would your CFO or CIO handle this? An excerpt is below.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

They should have a network in place and a positive reputation among potential candidates. The firm might have relied on their rolodex to place a CFO in New York City, but this doesn’t mean they can do the same and find you a candidate in Chicago. On the surface, this makes a lot of sense.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I’m not sure what to do since I am new on the team and don’t want to get a reputation early on for being difficult or refusing to do work. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Signed, Between a rock and a hard place in Iowa.”

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Surviving Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As I read the book, I couldn’t help but think that while the intent of the book is to imply only “good” cultures follow, I’ve worked in organizations that did many of the things in the book…yet had a reputation for being a “bad” culture.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 29, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

If your CFO handles all communications with your banking relationships, and your Chief Investment Officer handles all of your investor relations, you’re flat out missing the boat. If your CMO is making all of your brand decisions there will be h*ll to pay down the road.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

I’m not sure what to do since I am new on the team and don’t want to get a reputation early on for being difficult or refusing to do work. In this post, Virtual CFO Jon Verbeck explains the important parts of a financial dashboard for your company. Signed, Between a rock and a hard place in Iowa.”

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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. The financial and business impact of cyber incidents today requires the CFO to lean into the solution.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 18, 2014

Follow an email ‘thank you’ with a personalized, real ‘thank you’ note (repetition is reputation). Her work has also been featured in Forbes , CFO , Newsweek , CNN Everyday Money , Business Week , The Boston Business Journal , The Los Angeles Times , The Boston Globe , and The Boston Herald.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Make an appointment with the CFO. Have an active social media presence that is easily findable, so your reputation is both visible and impressive. He or she is most interested in making a profit, not just saving a dollar. Make your case against taking the lowest price and in favor of making a profit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2012

This in turn can produce whisper numbers in the market, making it confusing to discern whether the company has in fact met or exceeded the market's expectations and perhaps eroding the CFO's credibility with the investment community. However, I also believe in increased disclosure concerning the earnings drivers.

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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. They may break glass when needed to deliver results but over the longer term they build strong followership and the reputation for doing what’s right for the business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 13, 2015

And that needn’t eradicate the company’s technical prowess and reputation as an aerospace pioneer. What would inspire the CFO or CEO to talk to investors about a major innovation underway? Quarterly calls are good opportunities to ensure alignment.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

It might seem like extra work, but it's a chance to expand your internal network and reputation. She made a presentation to the VP of Public Relations, the CFO, and the president of the company to get the extra support. For example, a client of mine in customer service volunteered for the company's annual community project.

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Miles Anthony Smith

MAY 2, 2018

Build and guard your reputation , and the end result is absolutely worth it. Graham Keen "Inspirational CEO/CFO turned positive-psychologist resiliently transforming businesses & financial performance." ​ ​1.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A recent Washington Post investigation titled “The big problem for Uber now: Attracting talent” detailed the roots of this problem throughout the company and at the top, where 13 of the top 20 management positions remain empty, including the positions of COO and CFO. The lesson is that strategic reversal can happen quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

We're all taught that gossip — talking about someone when he or she isn't there — is not only rude but also possibly hurtful to feelings or damaging to reputations. In addition to tainting your own reputation, there is another risk to gossiping: That the subject will find out you talked about him behind his back.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In this case, a team of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital’s CEO, CFO, managers, staff, and doctors wanted to understand how their patients felt when they entered the hospital and what could be done to improve their experience. ” Design thinking has also earned the hospital a reputation as an innovator. There is room for new ideas.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2013

The article (it's behind a seemingly unbreachable paywall) has acquired the reputation of having marked the end of the dot-com boom. 1 institutional holder , by a good margin, is Capital Group, the giant Los Angeles mutual fund complex with a reputation for having long investment horizons. After that the No.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Know your reputation going into the room. Even a good reputation can act against you," Lees says. Find out how people perceive you so you can reshape that reputation if necessary. Mary Beth went through ten interviews over two months, first with HR, then with various people she''d be working with, and finally with the CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Terranola’s stock began tanking that afternoon, precipitating a slide that took the Seattle-based company’s reputation, employee morale, and ability to raise capital along with it. Densmor, Terranola’s CFO, saw those words on Twitter about one minute after Hughes had uttered them. As CFO, A.J. Confident words. That’s chutzpah!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. Over time, these executives develop reputations as the kind of leader to whom young, up-and-coming people want to hitch their career wagon.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

You may garner a reputation as unprofessional or be labeled as the difficult one. Harry*, the CFO from one of the companies was particularly challenging; he had a caustic style, often spoke in a pejorative way, and even withheld critical information from Bruno and others. Ideally, choose people outside the office.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

She had a reputation for taking risks and getting what she wanted, and she'd achieved more growth at Mariana than anyone had expected. The company's previous CFO had been good at tempering her aggressive approach, but he'd recently left for a job on the East Coast and hadn't yet been replaced.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He was the CFO of their company, a software start-up with about 75 employees. I don’t want this to distract you or, well, detract from your reputation around here.” Nothing happened that first night. Yes, Brad had flirted. Yes, Elizabeth had flirted back. They’d had more than one drink. She was its star salesperson.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2015

The plan was to go public next year, and Jake and his CFO had been trying to cut costs, but they had mostly spared the IT group. SimplePay is—was—the market leader in the mobile-pay space because of its reputation for being reliable and secure. Some of that was true. They’ve set the precedent.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2017

But to rectify that and repair their reputations, Samsung and others need to chart a different path than their Western corporate peers. Andrew Fastow, the former CFO, was sentenced to six years in prison. billion guilty plea act as targeted punishments that restore the corporate reputation. Redemption in Guilt Culture.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Listening, Derek Melis, his friend and CFO, was relieved. Everyone involved had been fired, but cleaning up the firm’s reputation in Russia and in Europe had not been easy. Please don’t let that cloud your judgment as CFO. ” “As the CFO, I can’t lose sight of what’s going on in each country.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2017

So, use conversations about efficiency to drive strategic discussion about quality, reputation, and customer value. Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital. How many companies have cut themselves to growth without sustaining at least an equal dose of innovation? Why would we not do the same with human capital?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

The company Chief Risk Officer ( Barry Zubrow , until January 2012) and the CFO ( Doug Braunstein, since replaced ) bore significant responsibility for the inadequacies of the risk and finance functions inside CIO — and for the failures of firm-wide risk and finance to spot trouble.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Back at Calidad de Vida's corporate offices that afternoon, Gloria asked Daniel Hernandez, her CFO, and Diana Correa, her deputy director, to join her in the company's lone conference room, a windowless space made cheerful by photos of smiling elderly people on the walls and the same bright green chairs found in the centers.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Companies that do layoffs poorly “suffer tremendous consequences,” including wrongful termination lawsuits and dents to their reputation. The excercise helped him realize that he needed to let a significant number of them go, including the CFO — we’ll call him Michael. .” This, he says, is an oversight.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

” An email security breach could impact your organization’s revenue and reputation. 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. Email attacks are cheap, easy, low risk, and high reward.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2014

We’ve built our reputation on doing the right thing for people — our customers, our employees, the environment — and most of the issues we get involved in put those stakeholders first. We can maintain that reputation by giving to charities and nonprofits, but politics is getting too dangerous,” Ken retorted. Harold shook his head.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Relying solely on classroom-based learning has a reputation for being inspiring in the moment but offering little to no transfer of training — nothing changes back on the job. Voser took a detour to be CFO for ABB from 2002 to 2004 and then returned to Shell to become CEO in 2009. Beyond-the-Classroom Experiences.

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