Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It can include positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, or Operations Manager. An MBA general program can prepare you for roles in various industries, but if you specialize in a particular area, such as finance or marketing, you can make yourself more marketable for such positions.

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CEO Insider

AUGUST 16, 2023

Vaibhav Taneja, aged 45, from India, will be taking on the role of Tesla’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in addition to his current position as Chief Accounting Officer.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Yet, despite the unprecedented level of challenges and change, a large proportion of finance leaders are strongly optimistic for the future. […].

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

announced that its chief financial officer Josh Smiley had resigned over his involvement with an employee in the firm. Anat Ashkenazi, previously senior vice president, controller and chief financial officer of Lilly Research Laboratories, has been named as his successor and will now be the next CFO.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 21, 2020

Accountants deal with statistical data, such as financial records, costs, and profits. This title demands a deep understanding of finance, and it requires, at the least, a four-year bachelor’s degree in accounting. Chief Financial Officer (CFO). JOB OPPORTUNITIES IN ACCOUNTING CAREER. Controller.

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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. Or, they may be skeptical about whether it’s worth the cost, or the risk to a high-stakes profession such as finance.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

After Niccol’s exit, VP of Finance Adam Rymer was named the Chief Financial Officer, and Jack Hartung, who was initially expected to retire, was reassigned as the Chief Strategy Officer. Chipotle’s CEO Appointment Comes with Other Changes The leadership shift at Chipotle isn’t restricted to only the CEO.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2016

At the time we launched my second business, Sigma Communications, and its flagship magazine, The National Register of Commercial Real Estate , the biggest issue facing chief financial officers and real estate executives was their surplus real estate. Capital was extremely scarce, and interest rates were extraordinarily high.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

At Berkshire, managers can focus on running their businesses: They are not subjected to meetings at headquarters nor financing worries nor Wall Street harassment. Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. How to Stop Short-Term Thinking at America’s Companies.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2012

Andrew Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron, recently completed a six-year prison sentence for his part in the scandalous deception that hid Enron's financial troubles from investors. In fact, it may have exacerbated the problem. Are these deals true risk transfers or are they cosmetic?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

This is the key finding of the Current Trends in Estimating and Applying the Cost of Capital research released this week by the Association for Financial Professionals, a trade group of 16,000 corporate treasury and finance practitioners. Download this pdf for an executive summary, or login here for the full report.)

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CEO Insider

JULY 11, 2024

Due to falling sales and a sharp decline in its share price, luxury giant Mulberry has decided to part ways with its Chief Executive Officer, Thierry Andretta. Mulberry’s share price has declined by 39% since January, reflecting a global downturn in the luxury sector, particularly due to reduced spending by Asian shoppers.

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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. At meetings of the corporation's finance managers, Tim makes a point to spend time with lower-level staff members to establish a personal bond.

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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. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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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. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures?

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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

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

JUNE 22, 2017

When the opportunity came up to become CEO at the hospital where I was, the case that I made was that if we took care of the patients and families well, if the business was serving the patients and families and the doctors and the nurses, the finances would follow. The finances of a children’s hospital are not easy.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

A few years ago I was working with a global company that was trying to engage Chief Financial Officers. But when we talked to CFOs, what they really wanted to know was how the company managed its own finances across so many geographies. When told of this request, the company’s response was “Really?

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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. During your call, ask them, “What are the key functional experiences [not necessarily jobs] that you believe will produce the highest-quality [general manager, IT architect, finance director]?

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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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