Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2012

No, Minow is suggesting that CFO essentially work for the audit committee. As she puts it, when she's evaluating a company, "the most important thing I look for in a CFO is someone who reports directly to the audit committee, because what I want is a CFO who is absolutely clear that his or her job depends on telling the truth to the board.".

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

” CFO Jon Verbeck gives us a major pointer for increasing our profits, and helps leaders understand these important elements of running a department or business. In this post, Chris outlines: “83% of employees want to leave their jobs, according to a recent survey. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 16, 2011

Those disappointing findings called out by Branham were : 84% of survey respondents say that "disengaged employees" are one of the three biggest threats facing their business. The report is based on a survey of 331 C-suite executives (CEO, CFO, CIO, etc.) or senior directors from 19 industries in Europe and the Middle East. "I

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Marshall Goldsmith

AUGUST 15, 2011

For example, you don't want the CEO and CFO coming to you and saying, "You never justify why we're spending so much money, so we're cutting your budget." Marshall Every two years there is a global survey to determine the world’s top 50 business thinkers. Align yourself with the rest of your executive team. Thank you, Susanne.

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Advice Execution Marketing Prahalad 107

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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. Make no mistake: this problem is only getting worse.

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Chief Technology Officer Short-term How To Long-term 78

N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

Maybe your CFO is a family friend. He is also the creator of various individual and team assessments including the # UltraLeadership 360 and the TeamWork GPS Team Survey. Their organizational culture happens by default. Leaders know that building a culture by design is critical to business success. You’re avoiding some tough calls.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), In April 2007, Catalyst surveyed all of the FP 500 companies in Canada, and at the time, 15.1% One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g., which is down 4% from 30% in the prior year. in 2005).

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The study by EY Women Athletes Business Network and espnW surveyed more than 400 female executives in five countries (20% were U.S. Half are C-Suite level executives, meaning that they serve as CEO, CFO, COO or the board of directors at a company.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

That's my takeaway from a scan of Mercer's 2012 Cost of Living Survey, which focuses on the costs of common items for expatriate workers. NOT TO MENTION THE SIDE-TRIPS TO WHISTLER. What It Costs To Be an Expat (Mercer Insights). I'm transferring to Vancouver. One downside: Vancouver trails only Sao Paulo on the cost of a fast-food hamburger.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Just 36 percent of CMOs, for example, have quantitatively proven the short-term impact of marketing spend, according to the 2013 CMO Survey (and for demonstrating long-term impact, that figure drops to 32 percent). Moreover, the previous year’s survey showed that 63 percent of projects do not use analytics to inform marketing decisions.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Your survey showed that as much as CEOs had shaken up their senior team, looking back on it they wished they''d moved even faster. Certainly we know that heads of finance and HR tend to move around a lot more because the skills are very transferrable, and in fact it looks better for an HR executive or CFO to show a breadth of industry.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2012

That's my takeaway from a scan of Mercer's 2012 Cost of Living Survey, which focuses on the costs of common items for expatriate workers. NOT TO MENTION THE SIDE-TRIPS TO WHISTLER. What It Costs To Be an Expat (Mercer Insights). I'm transferring to Vancouver. One downside: Vancouver trails only Sao Paulo on the cost of a fast-food hamburger.

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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. It’s a core part of the CFO’s work: Last year Oka personally met with 145 investors and his IR team collectively met with more than 500.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

A new study by The Bridgespan Group, based on a survey of more than 400 nonprofit C-suite executives and dozens of interviews, surfaced this surprising finding and discussed how to address this leadership development deficit. The leaders we surveyed identified several factors contributing to high turnover.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

A survey that we conducted earlier this year, of 319 executives around the world as well as 12 CEO workshops with leaders of over 100 of the most promising growth companies, indicates that the most troublesome challenges cluster in four areas. A driver survey this year showed that Uber drivers are now less satisfied than Lyft drivers.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Chinese women in powerful business positions include Wei Sun Christianson , CEO of Morgan Stanley, China ; Mei Yan , Managing Director of MTV Networks, China; and Mary Ma , former CFO of Lenovo and managing director in global equity giant TPG, who recently started her own investment fund. But the similarities end there.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers. ” “But your engagement surveys—not to mention the anecdotal stories like Noelle’s—show that things are just getting worse,” Cam responded.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

Ninety-five percent of the banks surveyed by law firm White & Case said they will buy or invest in emerging technology companies in the next 18 months. Financial institutions need more technically adept, visionary talent if they are to survive the shift to the digital age and take the kind of risks necessary for long-term success.

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Industry Short-term Planning Long-term 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

As one financial services CFO told us, “Our mental models were so rigid that even how we thought about data itself needed to be challenged. In the survey we conducted last year, we found that only 17% of companies tied innovation to compensation. Experimentation must be rewarded — something too few companies do.

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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. out of 10) on its customer satisfaction surveys. They started with patient-first thinking.

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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. But do they?

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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. To investigate this effect further, we interviewed top women executives about their experiences in recruitment processes and found a common complaint: dissatisfaction and frustration with how those processes were managed.

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Execution Chief Executive Officer Diversity CFO 8

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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Women on Business

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Recent data shows the majority of companies worldwide (71 percent) don’t have a clearly defined strategy for grooming and developing women as company leaders, according to a 2011 Women’s Leadership Development Survey conducted by Mercer. Internal Candidates Are Regularly Tapped to Fill Open Roles.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Gene Morphis, former CFO of CVS and David's Bridal suggests: "There is an interesting intersection between risk management and innovation that emerges in the CMO-CIO interface." Data can spring from a number of places: loyalty cards, purchases, social media behavior, website analytics, surveys, etc. Find Common Ground.

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CIO Chief Information Officer Norton Technology 8

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. What’s changed in our workplace today? Alex Shootman, Workfront. And it’s the state of work.

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Content Crisis Apparel Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Indeed, surveys show that managers and executives describe the “ideal worker” as someone with no personal life or caregiving responsibilities. “I’m not sure when I first asked if I thought it would be successful,” said Hickox, now CFO of Independent Bank in McKinney Texas. ” None of this is easy.

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Banking Conference CEO Bottom-up 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 28, 2013

As one CFO told me, the phrase "IT Risk" contains two dirty words. For example, in a global survey of 258 executives, IT and business executives agree on the relative importance of availability and access risks. Surprisingly, many people say it was "how to have the IT risk conversation.". The word risk makes him feel uncomfortable.

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Why Your CEO and CFO Should Care About Employee Engagement TLNT, 2013. Dos and Don’ts for Conducting an Employee Engagement Survey Insights, Winter 2011. Three Ways to Actually Engage Your Employees HBR Blog Network, June 2014. Thirteen Signs of a Disengaged Employee (Infographic) Entrepreneur, June 2014.

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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.

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Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

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. I recently ran into a company that based incentives on scores determined from as few as 11 respondents. Don't do that! Are your response rates high enough to reduce responder bias?

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Incentives Sample Customer Loyalty Metrics 10

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.

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Pre-Employment Screening Human Resources How To CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In several survey studies, we demonstrated that when employees perceive their leaders as too ethically driven, they demonstrated the same negative behaviors that were shown when leaders were perceived as very unethical. One year, the CFO noticed that there was a miscalculation that resulted in a shortage of a few million euros.

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How To Ethics Supply Chain Learning-by-Doing 8

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

External perception can be measured by awards, such as CEO Magazine “Best Companies for Leaders” and hundreds of individual leadership awards (CEO of the Year, CIO of the year, CFO of the Year, etc…). Second, you can pull questions out of your annual employee survey pertaining to leadership and look for year over year improvement.

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