Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. sales, marketing, manufacturing, intellectual property—in all business units in all geographies.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Ideally, security executives should attend board meetings in the same way that a chief financial officer would. Sponsored by Varonis.

CAPEX 8

CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

My experience with even the most successful global companies is that they’re between average and poor at developing future talent. They’re often not transparent about your real needs and vague about the most effective development options. Development matters. Leadership & Developing People Book.

Career 8

Career Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Instead, companies must make fundamental changes to the way they work — how they market and sell, handle orders, bill for those orders, manufacture and distribute their goods, and serve customers after the sale. According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time.

Budgeting 11

Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently differentiate those who advance to and succeed at the executive level — and those who stay in the ranks of middle management. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. Don't get me wrong.

Execution 14

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

Report 8

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. What caused this slump?

Report 8

Report GAAP Company Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on.

Strategy 8

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The best ones are permeable membranes that transfer knowledge from the outside in: Steve Jobs recruited the Dean of Yale’s Business School to run Apple University, while Jeff Weiner recruited business coach and thought leader Fred Kofman to lead leadership development for LinkedIn. Digital marketing from Adobe.

CIO 8

CIO Chief Financial Officer White Paper Learning-by-Doing 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.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Hiring, managing performance, and firing. At the start of my leadership development programs, I ask people for examples of "negotiating with yourself." To help people develop in their leadership and in their lives, I honed in on a small set of those hundreds of faces. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In this stressful market, with no guarantees of pensions or government safety nets taking care of us in our later years, and so with a need for all of us to keep productively working as long as possible, there are a few basic things I might suggest to help you cope. But workplace age discrimination is very, very hard to prove.

COO 13

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 13

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Develop the right metrics. When I discuss this with executives, they often point out that the lack of highly developed metrics is both a function of the relative immaturity of Big Data implementations, as well as a function of where in the organization sponsorship for Big Data originated and where it currently reports. Insight Center.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

AFP conducted the Cost of Capital Survey in October 2010 and received answers from 309 chief financial officers, treasurers, vice presidents-finance, and assistant treasurers. Only 46 percent use the perpetuity growth model, while 27 percent develop an explicit cash flow forecast for the entire life of a project.

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Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 12