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. Your sales department is easily the most important of your startup team.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

In the business world today, nearly two-thirds of Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) say their companies are focused on automating tasks that employees usually handle. Some are even using tools like ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas and draft job descriptions, contracts, marketing plans, and press releases.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2020

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. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

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Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 164

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

According to Forbes, the job market for MBA graduates is strong, with more employers looking to hire those with an MBA. It can include positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, or Operations Manager. However, MBAs are not just limited to working in corporations.

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Career Real Estate Finance Chief Financial Officer 93

HR Digest

APRIL 6, 2020

The top managers are the C-suite managers and carry the titles of chiefs-- the chief executive office, the chief financial officer, the chief marketing manager, the chief operational manager, and the chief technology manager. Their role is to convey top-down management.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 15, 2024

In today’s volatile markets and global environment, businesses must be able to react quickly to both opportunities and challenges. Therefore, maintaining positive cash flow is more critical than ever before. 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 119

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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Real Estate Chief Financial Officer Business Model Magazine 50

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

If you’ve been in the market for new business insight technology, such as a financial services analytics solution, the benefits of these are obvious. 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.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Ironically, even though Pinterest markets itself to women as a source of lifestyle inspiration, the company leadership team is male-dominated, and gender-biased attitudes are prevalent,” the lawsuit says. The company’s executive board is entirely made up of men!

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Below I’ve listed a few stakeholders and corresponding Core Ideas to pitch to them regarding the European market entry: VP of Sales: “We should enter the Italian and German markets because we can generate $XMM in sales.”. I’m making a pitch for entering the Italian and German markets no matter who my stakeholder is.

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Metrics CFO Chief Financial Officer Marketing 50

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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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 sales of the Covid-19 vaccine helped bolster its presence in the stock market. In 2019, Moderna’s stock was valued at less than $15, but by 2021 it had reached $168.

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CFO Chief Financial Officer Due Diligence Biotechnology 52

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

You want them to be able to perform at work, and there is no sense in hiring an electrical engineer whose school and work experience lies in a marketing field. For instance, you can outsource a chief financial officer that can offer advice to the company on how to best improve their profitability.

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Company Chief Financial Officer How To Outsourcing 57

CEO Insider

JUNE 6, 2023

During my CEO Group workshops, I often ask the members to pair off and thumb-wrestle one another. I tell them that the CEO who gets the most pins in thirty seconds will win a fictional $100,000. After thirty seconds, I asked each pair who got the most pins.

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CEO Insider

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Global businesses have had a lot to deal with over the past year – forcing an increase in remote work, super-scrutinized business spending, and even the inclusion of cleaning products as approved employee expenses.

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CEO Insider

JULY 30, 2023

“You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology, not the other way around.” – Steve Jobs How very true and seemingly evident Steve Job’s observation is.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 5, 2022

Most of the labour market movement we have seen in […]. Everyone who knows me, knows I reject ‘The Great Resignation’ – it’s a million-dollar catch-phrase, but it’s quite dangerously misleading. This is not a great resignation – which suggests that people have made a sudden decision to do something dramatic that we didn’t see coming.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital. Fiduciary Duty: better align interests of financial intermediaries and their investors. 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

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Instead, companies must make fundamental changes to the way they work — how they market and sell, handle orders, bill for those orders, manufacture and distribute their goods, and serve customers after the sale. According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time.

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Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Staggered hours and telecommuting are a huge hit in emerging markets , too. 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. Recognition resonates.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 17

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. The market must value transparency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2011

AFP conducted the Cost of Capital Survey in October 2010 and received answers from 309 chief financial officers, treasurers, vice presidents-finance, and assistant treasurers. Book vs. Market Weighting Factors Used for Debt and Equity in Calculation of WACC. . Current market debt/equity ratio. Privately held.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. The hospitals with better safety and patient experience performance also had better financial performance. For example, the financial margins for the hospitals in the top quartile of patients’ likelihood to recommend were 4.8

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 16

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

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 Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

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. "At But workplace age discrimination is very, very hard to prove.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 17

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Ideally, security executives should attend board meetings in the same way that a chief financial officer would. Board members should also make sure that the plan is thorough: marketing, crisis communication, risk mitigation, and decision making in the moment can be overwhelming and lead to errors. Sponsored by Varonis.

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CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Committee 10

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

MARCH 22, 2013

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

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Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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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 hunt for such talent is taking place in the world’s hottest market for advanced skills. Mobilizing resources.

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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. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales. The challenges of business-in-society issues arise in many different settings.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer. The Chief Financial Officer: your inner Thinker. The Chief Operating Officer: your inner Warrior. She wants them to explain plans to safeguard global markets in light of changing American economic policy.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Content marketing is a start, but articles and posts on social media don’t go deep enough. It’s time to flip the corporate university inside out, blending marketing with learning to create relationships beyond the transaction. P&G Professional serves the “away from home” market for commercial cleaning.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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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. However, in situations where a firm must maintain access to capital markets (e.g.

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