Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

You need them to operate as a great team, not functionaries. Operational boards are more valuable than governance boards. He’s a seasoned financial operator with extensive experience in startups and growth companies. It’s a tough audience. What do you do? First understand what makes a good board.

Venture Capitalist 140

Venture Capitalist Chief Financial Officer Committee Diversity 140

HR Digest

OCTOBER 17, 2024

According to a Reuters report from earlier this year, Airbus’ OneSat family of commercial telecom satellites had been swept up in financial charges at its Space business. Chief Financial Officer Thomas Toepfer explained that 200 million euros were related to 2023 with the rest attributed to previous or future years.

Restructuring 111

Restructuring Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain Constraint 111

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.

Execution 164

Execution Chief Financial Officer Industry Strategy 164

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.

Management 87

Management Chief Financial Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 87

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

It can include positions such as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Executive Officer, or Operations Manager. As an MBA graduate, you can use your business expertise to advise companies on managing their finances and operations.

Career 93

Career Real Estate Finance Chief Financial Officer 93

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.

Execution 52

Execution Chief Financial Officer Team CFO 52

Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2021

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. 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.

Technology 68

Technology Chief Financial Officer Banking Chief Technology Officer 68

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.

COO 52

COO Company Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 52

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The new CEO at Chipotle formerly held the position of the Chief Operating Officer before being asked to act as the interim leader. 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.

Positioning 52

Positioning COO Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 52

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.

Company 57

Company Chief Financial Officer How To Outsourcing 57

CEO Insider

JULY 15, 2024

As the CEO of a leading reputation management software company, I’ve seen first-hand how a comprehensive reputation platform can enable organisations to improve operations using consumer data. In today’s hyper-connected world, maintaining a positive reputation is crucial for businesses to thrive.

Reputation 64

Reputation Management Magazine Software 64

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.

CFO 105

CFO Course Licensing Finance 105

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. …. 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.

Short-term 28

Short-term Long-term Deming Management 28

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time. The financial targets are far easier to set but also far less useful as a tool to help managers achieve them. But the tight-fisted approach winds up being wasteful, and there is a better way.

Budgeting 14

Budgeting Chief Financial Officer Cost CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

In one recent case, the chief financial officer of a small company was fired for possible expense account violations, and he was also seen as a poor strategist and weak team player. They need to see that you operate by principles. The task for everyone else is not to let them. The former CFO did not go quietly.

CFO 17

CFO Chief Financial Officer Cooper Learning-by-Doing 17

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

What resources do you have to get something fixed?" —Chief Operating Officer. What they said didn't really apply to us." —Chief Financial Officer. We are a big company, so there's always a tendency to go with the big players. Who are your proven big-time customers? C-Level Executive Access.

Chief Financial Officer 20

Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 20

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game.

Globalization 16

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

We have a headquarters in San Francisco and it operates similar to a co-working space. For those who live in the Bay Area, they can work from the office, if they’d like. We pay a standard rate of $25 per hour, regardless of whether you’re applying to be an engineer or the chief financial officer.

Chief Financial Officer 15

Chief Financial Officer Decentralization Engineering Short-term 15

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. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

Chief Financial Officer 14

Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 14

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.

Health Care 16

Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 16

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.

CAPEX 10

CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Committee 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer. I should know. I used to work in the red-hot center of one of the most youth-oriented companies on the planet, Nickelodeon.

COO 17

COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 17

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.

Execution 15

Execution Team Chief Financial Officer Finance 15

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).

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2013

They are fiercely focused on operations, because they know that's how money is made or lost. By innovating, operating efficiently, and exploiting market niches, Zhang has confronted well-established manufacturers of the North on their own territory and used his success there as leverage to win in the global game.

Globalization 9

Globalization Chief Financial Officer Class Licensing 9

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.

Report 11

Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 11

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. The right questions are: How do the Big Four operate in me today? The Vice-President of Human Resources: your inner Lover.

Chief Financial Officer 10

Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Learning-by-Doing 10

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.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Because "business in society" issues pose so much risk (and in some cases opportunity), the general counsel is viewed in many companies having the same stature as the Chief Financial Officer. Having experienced, expert inside lawyers inside is the best way of controlling outside legal costs.

Chief Financial Officer 9

Chief Financial Officer Trends Crisis Definition 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

And then there was the person at the top – the Chief Financial Officer in this case, to whom we eventually wrote a letter (just at the point, as it happened, when the money finally arrived). Customer service Delegation Operations' But while he was ultimately accountable, he was also completely removed from the action.

Bureaucracy 9

Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 9

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.

Chief Financial Officer 8

Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. But Anderson, who had served as an independent director on the company’s board for several years, did this through having “tremendous relationships and credibility with the operating executives.”

Strategy 9

Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 9

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. So why did Enron go bankrupt? Was it because of the fraud, or was there another reason?

Price 8

Price Credit Rating Finance Chief Financial Officer 8

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. (In

Report 8

Report GAAP Company Proposal 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The CEO must then set up robust, cross-functional systems and processes to prevent, mitigate, and respond to those risks, always mindful of the stark challenges in diverse national cultures where the company operates. In most major U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2017

I knew I had to get a top chief financial officer. I had to have enough intuition about operations to ask the right questions, and I had to be able to spot and recruit and retain top talent. What did you have to learn when you became CEO? I had to solve for a deficiency, a lack of experience, with hospital finance.

CEO 9

CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

At the same time, members of the C-suite are measuring their potential impact using different metrics — financial, regulatory, technical, operational — leading to conflicting assessments. The chief risk officer (CRO) looks at the problem in terms of risk transfer and cyber insurance purchased.

Metrics 10

Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 10