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. Business leadership researchers tell us that the best traits for your CFO are emotional stability and global ethics.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 13, 2011

While working for a large, rapidly expanding non-profit, I was tasked with upgrading the organization’s technology. Adding to the challenge was an already understaffed technology department, supporting antiquated technology. My boss, the Chief Financial Officer, set lofty goals.

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HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. Too much hovering and guidance lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed, and people tend to give up faster under such leadership. An explanation of the structural format of management and managers.

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HR Digest

MARCH 11, 2020

Google had already suggested to employees to work from home as far as possible in some offices and restricted entries to all external visitors from coming into some of its offices in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area. Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat said in an email, “Every Google office is affected in some way.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

We need to move beyond pilots, though, to really being able to take advantage of the technology, and there are a lot of regulatory and bureaucratic hurdles that make that hard. All of those have a financial plus side to them, but more importantly, the top doctors and researchers are attracted to that kind of atmosphere.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. the danger that the newcomer will clash for political or personality reasons with members of the leadership team). ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales. Setting such standards involves nuanced balancing of the interests of the corporation and the rights of—and duties to—stakeholders. In most major U.S. This is the essence of corporate citizenship.

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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 possibility of failure is high when companies don’t commit senior leadership. Putting leadership capacity where it’s needed.

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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

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

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

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. Ma and the Alibaba leadership team would retain management control.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

The chief information security officer (CISO) or chief information officer (CIO) reports the technical vulnerabilities that his or her team has successfully remediated. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

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