Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Graduates of MBA programs move into upper management roles and executive positions in nearly any industry. It can include positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, or Operations Manager. Suppose you specialize in finance or economics within your MBA program.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies.

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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

I know Atul Gawande has talked about having primary care physicians act as a sort of project manager in adult medicine. Hospitals run by doctors perform 25% higher on quality scores than hospitals run by professional managers. The finances of a children’s hospital are not easy.

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CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 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

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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

Many are deeply uncertain about which initiatives they should fund — and one root of this indecision is a general lack of confidence in the cost of capital projections they are using to make the call. More than one-third of organizations forecast explicit cash flows for the first 10 years of a project.

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