CEO Insider

APRIL 15, 2024

Therefore, maintaining positive cash flow is more critical than ever before. In today’s volatile markets and global environment, businesses must be able to react quickly to both opportunities and challenges. It’s important to recognize the many points at which cash flow can be impeded, and implement better practices.

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Process Magazine Management Globalization 118

HR Digest

MAY 14, 2022

On May 11, Moderna announced that its Chief Financial officer will be leaving the company after spending just one day in office. Moderna CFO Jorge Gomez had assumed the position just one day prior, almost a month after leaving a dental company. In the long run, it helps save time, effort and money.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Biotechnology 52

Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

There are many different job opportunities in the accounting field that range from entry-level jobs to executive positions. If you work in the field long enough, you can go from a staff accountant to an executive position such as a CFO. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN ACCOUNTING CAREER.

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CFO Career Chief Financial Officer Finance 66

Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

Chief Financial Officer. You need a numbers guy to navigate your company to financial success. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. Above all, your customer service team needs to enjoy talking. Your Sales Team.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Team Ethics 100

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

It’s usually the job of a bank’s chief financial officer (CFO), chief risk officer (CRO), or chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee tech implementation. Also worth explaining to your colleagues is that the tech will put you in a highly competitive position: that of an early adopter.

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Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 70

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

They should have a network in place and a positive reputation among potential candidates. 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.

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 213

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

Have you heard anything, positive or negative? If you answered E : C stands for Chief, as in Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operations Officer, Chief of Staff, Police Chief, Chief Rabbi, Commander in Chief, Chief Justice, Chief Sitting Bull, etc….

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Leadership Development Development Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 229

CEO Insider

JULY 28, 2022

Research shows that narcissists tend to be attracted to leadership positions as they are positions of power, so they need to learn how to balance selfishness with selflessness. Narcissistic leaders’ self-centered personalities not only disrupt organizational culture, but they can also derail an organization and leave it unviable.

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Tips Magazine Team Positioning 118

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

As described in the HBR article “ Sustainability a CFO Can Love ,” by the company’s chief financial officer Kurt Kuehn and Lynnette McIntire, it is used to display proposed initiatives in terms of their relevance internally to the company’s strategy and externally to outside parties.

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Chief Financial Officer CFO Proposal Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

What receives far less attention is that, more and more in our increasingly complex, volatile, and fully-globalized business world, the effectiveness of such action depends on a powerful partnership between the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and the General Counsel (GC).

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

In one recent case, the chief financial officer of a small company was fired for possible expense account violations, and he was also seen as a poor strategist and weak team player. Do keep telling your positive story about the organization's purpose, mission, goals, and accomplishments. The former CFO did not go quietly.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 15

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. Rob, meanwhile, negotiated a position that kept his schedule calm during tax season. Be willing to experiment.

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Career Chief Financial Officer Cooper Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. The best fit seemed to be an experienced individual from a major consulting company who had also served in an executive position at another multinational firm. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Ghosn was recently arrested for financial misconduct, fired from his position as Nissan’s board chairman, and criticized by Nissan’s Japanese CEO for accumulating too much power. Renault holds a 43% voting position in Nissan; in turn, Nissan holds a 15% non-voting position in Renault.

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Committee Chief Financial Officer Document Execution 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

We replicated our analysis for the Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) of each bank and other members of the top management team, but we did not find a relationship between their cultural heritage and firm performance. This confirmed the role of the CEO as the most important decision-maker in a bank.

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Banking Sample Hofstede Chief Financial Officer 9

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. At that point Ann began to take steps to find Tom a new position within the company more in line with his prior experience.

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Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 14

Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals. I never would have though, given my family’s financial position at the time. Adding to the challenge was an already understaffed technology department, supporting antiquated technology. The task was daunting, but we had an amazing team.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Technology 185

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

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Because "business in society" issues pose so much risk (and in some cases opportunity), the general counsel is viewed in many companies having the same stature as the Chief Financial Officer. It is thus no surprise that the quality of general counsel has risen dramatically over the past two decades.

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Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 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.

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Chief Financial Officer Operations Learning-by-Doing IPO 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

At the annual conference of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners late last month, former Enron Chief Financial Officer Andrew Fastow, who served six years in prison for his part in Enron''s deceptions, offered an explanation. So why did Enron go bankrupt? Was it because of the fraud, or was there another reason?

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Price Credit Rating Finance Chief Financial Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer. Sales positions are not as accepting of the aging process.". In other words, according to Carlson, at 50 the only person I could work for was myself. Be aware of how you present yourself.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 14

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. Give them positive feedback, and most importantly, listen to what they have to say. If the people working for you aren’t happy, you will not succeed.

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Company Chief Financial Officer How To Outsourcing 57

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

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. You either go out of business or you evolve into a different position.” They operated on shoestrings. Everything changes.

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Brand Merchandising Chief Financial Officer Retail 8