Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Chief Financial Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in incremental profits.”. Chief Marketing Officer: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can increase our European market share by X%.”. You can get a copy of their goals or strategic plan.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

But while cybersecurity is now on the agenda at board meetings, this doesn’t mean that board members understand how to tackle the issue. After all, most board members have expertise in other forms of risk, and not in how to protect corporate assets from nation-state attackers and highly organized cyber adversaries.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies. Almost 80 percent of chief financial officers at 400 of America’s largest public companies say they would sacrifice a firm’s economic value to meet the quarter’s earnings expectations. And the company will be rewarded for doing so with better results.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

Brian Paradis was the Chief Financial Officer for Florida Hospital when he was tasked with leading the troubled organization in 2006. Lead with Imagination he writes is about “how to lead and how to do it with imagination. It is first about how to be, about character, before checklists and a list of to-dos.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

But with myriad choices for how to do so, and long lists of stakeholders to please, managers struggle with a basic question: How do we decide which projects to green-light? It’s vital that companies manage their impact on the planet , and most are willing to invest at some level in sustainability initiatives.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2015

Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. They convene to share ideas and experiences on how to pursue a work life that allows time for family and community. Be willing to experiment.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Now, however, a unifying theory has emerged for how to improve performance for all these dimensions — safety, quality, experience, and financial. First, a few words about where we came from and how we got here. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

For instance, you can outsource a chief financial officer that can offer advice to the company on how to best improve their profitability. When someone is not accustomed and integrated into the company and the way it thinks, they will bring something completely new to the table.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. Walgreens Boots Alliance’s Rick Mills has been the group strategy officer for 20 years. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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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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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A few years ago I was working with a global company that was trying to engage Chief Financial Officers. They had developed all kinds of thought leadership and white papers about how CFOs could do their job better. The final reason is confidence. Companies often don’t think they have anything to say.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry. franckreporter/Getty Images. The interviews will provide you with the raw material to create your personal experience map.

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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. That leaves important decisions about where the new roles will be located and how to draw new lines of authority.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

But if these executives are going to make their companies suffer less from it, they had better figure out how to identify the precise problems it causes, and focus directly on them. We spoke to people in processing centres in London, Mumbai, and Warsaw, but how they were connected to each other was entirely unclear.)

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. We met with founder Jack Ma and his chief financial officer at the time, Joe Tsai, and we immediately felt a strong cultural alignment. We did this over and over until we found a workable approach.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior. The Lover is led by emotion, and knows how to manage relationships. The Vice-President of Human Resources: your inner Lover.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

Their stories offer valuable lessons on how to build a startup into an iconic brand. From the outset, all three men viewed themselves as serving in multiple roles: founder, custodian, brand manager, chief financial officer, recruiter, and head of consumer insights. They operated on shoestrings.

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