HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Ironically, even though Pinterest markets itself to women as a source of lifestyle inspiration, the company leadership team is male-dominated, and gender-biased attitudes are prevalent,” the lawsuit says. The company’s executive board is entirely made up of men!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital. Fiduciary Duty: better align interests of financial intermediaries and their investors. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Some organizations have improved faster than others, and gains have been greatest in areas that were major focuses of leadership at many institutions (e.g., There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. That said, many organizations have made steady improvements in multiple types of performance.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The contemporary CEO must not only be expert at addressing the commercial verities of products, markets, and competitors. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

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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?

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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. Ritz Carlton and Zappos follow a similar model.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Leadership & Developing People Book. Functional experiences help make you great at something, i.e. marketing, supply chain, R&D. You’ve not only been a great marketer in one region, but proven that you can lead marketing when you have a new team, in a turnaround situation and in a different geography.

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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. The hunt for such talent is taking place in the world’s hottest market for advanced skills. Putting leadership capacity where it’s needed.

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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.

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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. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

For example, Tim Sheahan, Chief Financial Officer for a large division of a multi-national corporation, aspires to become CFO of a Fortune 100 company in the future. Consider Ann Berkley's experience when she was named Vice President of Marketing for a major division of a large consumer products company.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Contrary to the adverse experience of some governing boards, activist investors can actually prove to be a leadership asset on the board rather than a disruptive force—providing the boardroom is well-managed and led. In doing so, activist investors are not just benefitting from a company’s leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

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 Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. At first this sounds strange.

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