The Idolbuster

JANUARY 16, 2013

I got a surprising amount of pushback from the executive review committee, but I confidently defended the numbers, citing “changing market conditions.” The next day I discovered why: finance made an error in the last minute slide preparation, such that the revenue was one hundred times higher than it should have been.

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Committee Finance Review Environment 45

Ron Edmondson

JULY 10, 2018

In my last church, some of our best leaders on our finance committee, for example, had never served in leadership in the church. They were, however, tremendous leaders in their careers. These are sometimes “big asks”, but in my experience they won’t often get involved until they are asked.

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Committee Finance Examples Career 35

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2018

” These questions are especially agonizing for mid-career professionals who may be searching for fulfillment while juggling demands at home and intense financial pressures to earn. How should you address a mid-career crisis? Mid-career malaise runs deep. One of the biggest culprits of middle-age career malaise is boredom.

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Career How To Learning-by-Doing Constraint 15

Strategy Driven

JULY 6, 2015

How important is face-to-face networking to sales, relationships, career, and success? I started in the insurance business in 1993 as a fresh graduate from East Carolina with a finance degree. Served on committees welcoming new members and meeting other small business owners. Committee Member and Chair for three years.

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Insurance Committee Customer Loyalty Competitive Advantage 50

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Inclusive Decision Making: Equitable Workplace Strategies for Fair Compensation Similar to how we prefer to have a say in what careers we choose or who governs us, most employees also appreciate having a voice in setting up an equitable compensation program guide that can be used company-wide.

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System How To Benchmarking Diversity 52

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

. “After board dinners, we inevitably sit around and talk about our kids and their careers,” Dave Calhoun recently told me. The truth is, it’s difficult to advise kids about how careers really work today and how to get any job, much less a great job. This the Career Triangle.

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Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

If you have more time, contribute to an association committee. Many career-enhancing activities can develop from carefully chosen volunteer-based projects. The only way to work networking in is to schedule attendance to an event and go. This leads to furthering your credentials and friendships. Align with similar initiatives.

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Press Release Discount Advertising Sharpe 100

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2011

Knowing and communicating your career goals is challenging for even the most ambitious and focused person. In today's work world, careers take numerous twists and turns and the future is often murky. You have to clarify for yourself what you aspire to do with your career before you can communicate it confidently to others.

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P&L Committee Career Learning-by-Doing 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2017

During our careers, we have worked in industry, academia, clinical medicine, and government and have managed successful academia-industry collaborations. For academics, publishing and obtaining grants are key to promotion and career advancement. Commonly, researchers develop a theory, then build a career gathering support for it.

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Conflict of Interest Pharmaceuticals Policies Industry 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Supported by TAPFIN, a division of ManpowerGroup, they gathered data from HR and Finance systems including the HRIS, VMS, ATS, GL/Finance and A/P.

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Strategy Span of Control Finance How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

Would you hire a surgeon who wasn’t trained in medicine or delegate a major financial investment decision to someone who hadn’t studied finance? Over the past few months, I’ve had many small-group meetings with the nominating committee chairs of some of the largest companies in the world. Of course not.

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Succession Human Capital McKinsey Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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Execution P&L CEO COO 10

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2015

Conventional thinking has suggested that leadership positions go to those who aggressively plan their careers with a keen eye for building the right skills to reach top jobs. Note that this inclusive process is not decision-making by committee or by consensus. Near the end of his career, it also helped him decide to sell Frankel.

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Open-book Career Rogers PR 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

In the “ Scientific Background ” essay on Tirole’s work provided by the Nobel committee, the focus is on Tirole’s work on industry structure, which has had a big impact on antitrust and other regulation, especially in Europe. Then, in 2006, came The Theory of Corporate Finance — not a field Tirole had really been known for. Since when?

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Strategy Rivkin Game Theory Porter 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

You’ll often find customer relationship management within marketing, budgeting within finance, supply-chain management within operations, outsourcing within procurement, training within HR, and new product development within R&D. Business units come and go, but finance, HR, marketing, IT, legal, and R&D seem to last forever.

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Development Supply Chain Incentives Outsourcing 8

You're Not the Boss of Me

JUNE 8, 2009

He serves on our Strata as Chair of the Building Committee, a pretty important role. My first experience was when I was a very young manager working in a finance department and the middle aged guy working for me told me he was using me as a role model. At the time it was a shock. But as I got older I realized what he meant.

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Examples Bottom-up Long-term Influence 48

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

After a time, the selfless behavior that made them successful in their early careers ends up impairing their long-term productivity, effectiveness, and well-being. To manage your personal finances with care and attention, and with long-term objectives in mind. To spend time with your family and close friends.

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Long-term Stress Simon Commitment 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He led the finance team. Another option was transferring: The executive committee had just decided to open a London office, and the new European sales manager was looking for a number-two. It was true: Brad wasn’t her boss. She reported to the head of sales, who reported to the COO, and she and Brad rarely interacted at work.

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Case Study Conference Hotels COO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

They’d met at university, and although Derek had gone on to graduate school and a career in banking, while Rogier had joined his family construction business and then founded Contect, they’d never lost touch. He now had only one major—and very vocal—opponent: Vera Hoch, the head of the audit committee.

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Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It’s not just that certain schools are known for excellence in a given field or offer coursework and training relevant to a specific career path. The career services director of a top MBA program I interviewed put it best when she said, “Firms are scrambling for diversity.

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EPS Diversity Banking Reputation 8

Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. Denise Pirrotti Hummel – An expert on the connection between inclusion and business performance, an author, consultant, Ted Talk finalist, HBA Board member and the Chair of Athena’s Life Sciences Committee.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Obama also mentioned Donald Kohn (PhD, Michigan, and a career at the Fed) as a possibility, and the name of Roger Ferguson (PhD, Harvard, and a private sector career plus a past stint as Fed vice chairman) came up a few times in journalists’ speculations. But a career professor? pretty much ever since.

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Banking Rogers Career Education 9

N2Growth Blog

MAY 17, 2010

A person who is "volunteered" to serve as a committee chair for a professional or trade association may differ in motivation and enthusiasm from one who has joined an organization and volunteered willingly. In fact, even within for-profit organizations, the need for a certain type of leader may change as situations change.

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Blog Leadership Consultative Follow-up 333

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. It was the form in which the asset was financed. One is finance and the other is non-finance.

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Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2017

The closet in Mark’s bedroom offers a glimpse into his three-decade career in finance. Olu isn’t in a career that requires him to wear a suit, but what could his artistic and creative talent bring to a more corporate environment? They also represent varying degrees of fabulousness, from subtle to full-on.

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Fashion Participative Class Creativity 12