Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It can include positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, or Operations Manager. An MBA general program can prepare you for roles in various industries, but if you specialize in a particular area, such as finance or marketing, you can make yourself more marketable for such positions.

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Career Real Estate Finance Chief Financial Officer 93

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.

Report 8

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. The finances of a children’s hospital are not easy. All of those have a financial plus side to them, but more importantly, the top doctors and researchers are attracted to that kind of atmosphere.

CEO 8

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.

Report 8

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. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

Chief Financial Officer 13

Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 13

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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Cost of Capital CAPM Cost Discounted Cash Flow 13