HR Digest

AUGUST 12, 2020

Former Chief Operating Officer of Pinterest, Françoise Brougher, has filed a lawsuit against the company alleging gender discrimination and wrongful termination. Brougher has also cited the chief financial officer of the company, Todd Morgenfeld, as being disrespectful, aggressive, and confrontational.

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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. But you must also remember that any new technology you onboard will bring change to your bank’s operations—some of which isn’t welcome just yet.

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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. Meanwhile, fly-by-night operations can sometimes get lucky – as they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

It is due to these workers that success can be achieved, and that the day-to-day operations run smoothly. Every single person has a certain role to play within the business operations. 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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Deming Institute

JANUARY 9, 2017

Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. Market Incentives: encourage more patient capital. Fiduciary Duty: better align interests of financial intermediaries and their investors. Transparency: strengthen investor disclosures.

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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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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

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

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. What caused this slump?

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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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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. They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

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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

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. There is good news for chief financial officers, too, in these analyses. What is driving what?

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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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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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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. They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. As Keith Sherin, GE's chief financial officer, explained, "This is where the growth is.

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Organizations that have the executive responsible for data report to the Chief Financial Officer are more likely to have developed precise financial measurements early on. To date, most Big Data accomplishments have involved operational cost savings or allowing the analysis of larger and more diverse sets of data.

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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

In addition they operate from a plan — however confidential it may be — to strengthen the team year over year. 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.

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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

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. 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

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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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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

His prize, Victoria’s Secret, will generate $8 billion in revenue this year and operates in a dozen countries. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. Moving production nearer to those markets makes sense. has been that market been since the Second World War. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images. Vietnam straddles the two.

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