Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We pay a standard rate of $25 per hour, regardless of whether you’re applying to be an engineer or the chief financial officer. It’s a huge time commitment, coordinating the short-term work being done by job applicants, but it leads to extremely low turnover. To Optimize Talent Management, Question Everything.

Chief Financial Officer 12

Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Attracting and retaining top talent are perennial concerns among managers, in good times and in bad. With salaries frozen even as the scope of work expands, managers find it nearly impossible to lure A-players and compensate existing high performers without breaking the budget. The good news? They may not have to.

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Chief Financial Officer Motivation Loyalty Budgeting 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

The financial health of the organization was the most important metric for management and governance to follow. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. The hospitals with better safety and patient experience performance also had better financial performance.

Health Care 12

Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, recently completed a six-year prison sentence for his part in the scandalous deception that hid Enron's financial troubles from investors. Why did he commit fraud? First, the rules provide managers with discretion to be misleading.

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Chief Financial Officer Finance Banking Class 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings. In most major U.S. This is the essence of corporate citizenship.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

High-profile cyberattacks — ranging from the one suffered by Sony Pictures in 2014 to the global ransomware attacks that occurred last May and June — highlight the huge financial and reputational stakes. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

Metrics 8

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The chief financial officer (CFO) role rose to prominence in the mid -1980’s as pressures for value management and more transparent investor relations gained traction. Today, as the power of data and analytics profoundly alters the business landscape, companies once again may need more top-management muscle.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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Report GAAP Company Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that chief financial officers are getting chucked off their companies' boards right and left as part of the push for more independent directors. The common view is that, as Felix puts it, "board members are meant to keep management under control.". Well, mainly from Michael C.

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Chief Financial Officer Banking Long-term Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

The title Chief Executive Officer is something of a misnomer. The task of a CEO — and for that matter of any manager — is not wholly or even primarily about execution. An effective CEO makes things happen principally through his executive colleagues, aptly called “Chiefs” too: the CFO, CCO, and COO.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer COO CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Organizations that have the executive responsible for data report to the Chief Financial Officer are more likely to have developed precise financial measurements early on. Yet, these remain largely back-office operations; they don’t change the customer experience or disrupt traditional ways of doing business.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8