Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Eventually her team ended up with a portfolio of investments that caught the attention of the CFO and CEO because some were bringing new technologies into the company’s supply chain, and others were hinting at new business models for engaging with customers.

Career 10

Career Examples Supply Chain CFO 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2013

More humbly, incompatible communications networks and a less-than-proactive IT department drove a company''s supply chain and procurement teams to use LinkedIns, private Tweets and cut-and-paste Sharepoints to quickly coordinate go-to-market product changes with key vendors. Why Can''t a CIO Be More Like a CFO?

Media 8

Media Power CIO Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Australia’s main CFO forum, the G100 , has shown interest in the topic and even published a paper offering broad support for integrated reporting, arguing that “corporate reporting reform is underway and CFOs should seize the opportunity to drive the reporting agenda.”

Human Capital 8

Human Capital CFO Banking Report 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2018

His projects redesigned the supply chain for significant cost and time savings, created a new structure to quicken decision making and increase flexibility, and improved the new-product process. Instead, he was told that the CEO would stay until the CFO developed the capabilities to succeed him, and Greg would be allowed to resign.

Supply Chain 11

Supply Chain CEO Kahneman Self-aware 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. As an example, hotel chains like Marriott or Hilton create value chains that deliver rooms and related services to their customers. The traditional way of thinking about value creation is linear and incremental.

Intellectual Capital 8

Intellectual Capital Strategy Supply Chain Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

CFOs were the first functional chiefs to join, followed in the 1980s by Chief Strategy Officers (CSOs). In the 2000s, the number of Chief Supply Chain Officers in large firms shot up in several industries, while the “War for Talent” spurred companies to add Chief Talent Officers to their benches.

Execution 8

Execution Team Committee COO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2015

A new Conference Board study, as CFO magazine reported , reveals some startling growth in greener products at a dozen big companies like Kimberly-Clark, Dow, GE, Siemens, Toshiba, and more. But now they’re actively pushing the supply chain to invest better options. And it’s not just happening at Target.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Chemicals Retail 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2015

You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. ” They won the contract, and Haydock, who has since launched ecoCFO, a company that provides CFO services to energy and environmental businesses, believes honesty, inquiry, and transparency were what sealed the deal.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain How To Price Case Study 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry. They allow you to prove that you’re highly competent at what you do.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

When contaminated meat or vegetables are recalled, consumer advocates demand more transparency from food supply chains. One year, the CFO noticed that there was a miscalculation that resulted in a shortage of a few million euros.

How To 8

How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

The CEO wonders how you spend your time, the CFO wonders how you spend the company’s money, the sales folks think you’re too conceptual, too abstract, and not sufficiently focused on the immediate business, and the production and supply chain guys just think you’re full of hot air.".

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Real Estate ROI CFO 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2014

It does require that leaders reach across functional boundaries, but thats different than simply placing compensation and benefits under the CFO. Retooling HR makes organization leaders smarter by applying their existing sophistication about finance, engineering, operations and marketing to HR and talent decisions.

Charan 14

Charan Finance Human Resources Supply Chain 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2017

Their operations involve partnerships, specializations, and supply chains. 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. After all, most want to make a profit.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain System CFO Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Apple's manufacturing strategy and General Motors' growth market and Wal-Mart's supply chain are all based in China — do we really expect them to radically remake their strategies in favor of California's fiscal crisis, Detroit's economic depression, or Arkansas' rural poverty?

Porter 15

Porter Globalization Supply Chain Politics 15