CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

For many organizations, it’s worth considering shelving that prepackaged CRM product in favor of a purpose-built solution.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

If we could spend twice that amount productively, we would happily do so though short-term results would be further penalized. 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

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Ideally, security executives should attend board meetings in the same way that a chief financial officer would. Sponsored by Varonis.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Or was our product not up-to-snuff versus the competition? There's a natural tendency to assume that the losing salespeople lacked sales prowess that the winner possessed or their product was far inferior in some way. Customers are never 100 percent sure they are purchasing the right product. Was it something I said?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

To us, this arrangement makes sense — we work in open source software, which is a decentralized product. We pay a standard rate of $25 per hour, regardless of whether you’re applying to be an engineer or the chief financial officer. But in general, the majority of our employees work somewhere other than our home base.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

In fact, two years after HSBC launched its Flexible Work Arrangement in India, productivity had shot up in 88% of the participants and not declined in the others. Thirty-five percent of workers and 30% of chief financial officers in an Accountemps poll cited frequent recognition of accomplishments as the most effective nonmonetary reward.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. The objective of most Chinese enterprises is to export products and earn foreign currency," he told Harvard Business School researchers in the 1980s. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

.” By helping farmers be more productive, Sears enabled them to generate more disposable income. Imagine learning product design from Apple. A few years ago I was working with a global company that was trying to engage Chief Financial Officers. Salesmanship from Salesforce. The final reason is confidence.

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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. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings. In most major U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

The existing management team had not addressed a range of issues, including required changes to store sizes, the product range, and which geographies the company focused on. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer.

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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

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 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. In these, financial incentives are aligned (i.e.,

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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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

If you want to be a chief financial officer (CFO), identify five CFOs who you admire or who are well regarded in your industry. An experience should describe a meaningful business outcome — open a new production facility, lead a large team through a business turnaround, or close books for a business unit.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

In some ways business leaders in the South have an edge: They are a product of scarcity. The objective of most Chinese enterprises is to export products and earn foreign currency," he told Harvard Business School researchers in the 1980s. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 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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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. Over the past 30 years, most companies have added new C-level roles in response to changing business environments.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

But Motorola’s markets were transforming in the mid-2000s, and chief executive Greg Brown and his board decided in March 2008 that the company should be split in two: Motorola Mobility would take its mobile phones and related devices, and Motorola Solutions its mission-critical data and communication products.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that chief financial officers are getting chucked off their companies' boards right and left as part of the push for more independent directors. At least, that's my reading of the voluminous academic research on the topic. Yet the anti-insider movement rolls on unchecked.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

In this stressful market, with no guarantees of pensions or government safety nets taking care of us in our later years, and so with a need for all of us to keep productively working as long as possible, there are a few basic things I might suggest to help you cope. It's to play the hand you've been dealt as best you can.

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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. This isn’t something that your organization should do for the purpose of productivity, but because it’s important and the best course of action in this aspect. Treat them well.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Key industry segments are heavily represented — financial services, where data is plentiful and data investments are substantial, and life sciences, where data usage is rapidly emerging. Among the findings: 63% of firms now report having Big Data in production in 2015, up from just 5% in 2012. Insight Center.

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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. Sure, they wanted a reaction to their product, retail environment, and service delivery. They operated on shoestrings.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Something similar has occurred when Chinese consumers have on earlier occasions read the signals for when they were meant to boycott Japanese and South Korean products. national security concerns because they incorporate Chinese technology into their end products. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images. Doing so is neither necessarily easy nor cheap.

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