HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Another member of the new Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership is Manmohan Mahajan, the new Executive Vice President and Global Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mahajan’s appointment isn’t necessarily a new occurrence considering he has been serving as interim CFO since July 2023.

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Team CFO 52

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

He has observed in many companies that a C-suite team represents a balance of types , for instance, an introverted CEO who chooses an extroverted CFO to bring strengths to the table that he or she doesn’t have. “On Google relies on sample work tests in addition to structured interviews as it assesses candidates, for example.

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CFO Education Diversity Reference 277

Tanveer Naseer

MAY 10, 2016

He has observed in many companies that a C-suite team represents a balance of types, for instance, an introverted CEO who chooses an extroverted CFO to bring strengths to the table that he or she doesn’t have. “On Google relies on sample work tests in addition to structured interviews as it assesses candidates, for example.

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How To Diversity CFO Education 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

To better understand this phenomenon, we analyzed a sample of 113 strong performers who were finalists for C-suite roles but got turned down in the final decision round. Take Jim, a front-runner CFO candidate for a leading medical device manufacturer on the verge of an IPO.

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Career CFO Sample Execution 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance was struck by what he saw in CFO Damon Ewen’s file. His CFO and his sales chief had been at loggerheads for a while. “Ahmed has promised samples for the new line on the Clarkson account, but his order exceeds the limits accounting set, so we need Damon’s signoff, and he won’t give it.”

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Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

To test the reliability of your scores, answer the following questions: Is your sample controlled and stable? Sample variations can generate huge swings in scores and feedback. There's a mathematical basis for this number: so large a sample creates confidence that score variation reflects real differences rather than random swings.

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

To answer this question, we evaluated a sample of 55 different heads of strategy and looked more closely at 11 who were particularly successful and 10 who were at the other end of the spectrum. Stemberg turned to Basil Anderson, who had tackled similar challenges as CFO of Campbell Soup and Scott Paper. Here’s what we learned.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8