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

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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CAPEX Chief Financial Officer How To Long-term 8

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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Report GAAP Net Present Value CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The survey gathers perspectives from a small but influential group of executives — chief information officers, chief data officers, and senior business and technology leaders of Fortune 1000 firms. How technology is changing the way we work. Insight Center. Corporate Culture for a Digital World.

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer Agility Metrics 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

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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. With that said, I never want to buy the highest priced solution." —Vice President of Technology. Who are your proven big-time customers?

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Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer Chief Executive Officer Supply Chain 17

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. It needs to focus its oversight function by clearly defining the core operating objectives for the 15 highest priority risks and opportunities that include business and society issues. In most major U.S.

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CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 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.”

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Strategy Chief Financial Officer Short-term Chief Information Officer 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

We operate in a business landscape driven by an obsession with youth. Digital technology, one of the world's fastest-growing and most lucrative sectors, is popular with consumers of all ages. The organizational "geography" also matters — chief marketing officer versus chief financial officer.

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COO Chief Financial Officer Telecommunications Technology 15

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. Information & technology Leadership' Over the past 30 years, most companies have added new C-level roles in response to changing business environments.

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Chief Financial Officer Information Technology Metrics CFO 8

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. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Chief Financial Officer Learning-by-Doing Operations IPO 10

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. I knew I had to get a top chief financial officer. What did you have to learn when you became CEO? I had to listen to them, and I had to concede.

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CEO System Innovation Chief Financial Officer 8

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.

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Metrics CIO Chief Financial Officer Chief Information Officer 8

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. technology companies — that use China as a source of assembly, semi-manufactures or components have an additional vulnerability: their value chain. technology company needs.

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