Strategy Driven

APRIL 10, 2020

So after spending much of my 20s working in finance and real estate, and then going to business school, the right opportunity sat in front of me. So I set out to hire a COO who could. To some degree, I always knew I’d launch my own business. I just didn’t know which field of study the company would rest in. Real estate, 2.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2017

He has 20+ years of experience in corporate and government leadership, including positions as COO of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, strategy consultant with Bain & Company, and marketing executive with Capital One. He holds an MBA in finance from the Wharton School.

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Leadership COO Consultative Learning-by-Doing 190

Center for Creative Leadership

JUNE 2, 2020

They carry titles such as vice president or senior director and have responsibilities for one or more functions — such as sales, marketing, finance, operations, engineering, technology, legal, and human resources. They run business units and geographic regions.

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Self-aware Leadership COO Influence 83

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Does your company have a COO today? Does your COO have the best shot at becoming the next CEO? Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing. Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Vincent Chee: I am working with our COO Roni Gross and Director Naomi Hung to determine Bevel’s timeline within 6-months, 1 year and 2 years. Vincent Chee: There is a niche intersection between cutting-edge technology/finance and strategic communications.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 20, 2019

Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , and enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise.

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Self-aware Entrepreneur COO Banking 57

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2019

Christopher Grey is the co-founder and COO of CapLinked , an enterprise software company offering an information control and risk mitigation platform for the sharing of confidential or sensitive documents and communications outside of the enterprise.

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Entrepreneur Products Productivity Long-term 67

Women on Business

JANUARY 17, 2011

CEO, CMO, COO, CIO, CFO, etc.), Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year). One more disheartening statistic shows that only 26% of those companies have at least one woman in an executive officer’s position (e.g.,

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 23, 2010

CEOs/COOs are looking at the wrong data…they look for trends while or after they happen, not searching for clues before they happen. link] Terri Schepps The reality is most CEOs believe having a CRM in place ensures the best customer experience.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Share and Enjoy: View Comments [link] Stuart Oliver: Entrepreneur, Interim CIO, Technology COO, Strategist, » Blog Archive » To blog or not to blog [.] Mike Myatt from N2Growth has this interesting blog entitled “To blog or not to blog“ [.] link] Swiecki’s Blog » Tech-blog Carnival Edition 2 [.]

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

Meghna has been COO of a small market research company since she earned her MBA several years ago. She’s done just about everything a COO can to grow a company and is now eager to apply that expertise to startups in a different industry — wind power or alternative transportation, such as bike sharing.

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COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2016

Sebastian Dupéré, the head of a Montreal-based steam cleaner company with sales in six countries, knew that his COO was one of his most valuable employees. ” When the COO walked, it was a wake-up call. . ” When the COO walked, it was a wake-up call. “We were surprised,” Spector said.

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COO How To Long-term Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Education crowdfunder DonorsChoose.org, which finances classroom-based projects, is a good model of success. He was promoted to COO within two years. Good Shepherd’s CFO, Greghan Fischer, for example, saw strong potential in Yan Li, a quietly competent member of her finance team.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2017

After working with a coach, a CFO realized that she was not particularly good at, nor did she much enjoy, managing people in a large, globally dispersed finance team. A coaching engagement with the newly hired head of Real Estate helped indicate that in order to make real business impact, the reporting line had to change to the COO.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2013

Certainly we know that heads of finance and HR tend to move around a lot more because the skills are very transferrable, and in fact it looks better for an HR executive or CFO to show a breadth of industry. Insiders are much more likely to replace the COO, for instance, while outsiders are more likely to replace the CFO.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO. That isn’t good.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

CEO/COO teams or "Office of the President" arrangements can offer great strengths, but may also introduce some sizeable risks, as Stephen A. Instead, seeing the potential in the product and commitment of employees, we came up with financing to buy out the investor and keep the company operating. Miles and Michael D. Watkins conclude.

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Team Leadership COO Software 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2016

More than 25 years ago, William Sahlman wrote the HBR article “Why Sane People Shouldn’t Serve on Public Boards,” in which he compared serving on a board to driving without a seatbelt, that it was just too risky—to their time, reputations, and finances—for too little reward. increased by over $300,000.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2017

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Rebuilding the entire crew while flying the plane is never easy, especially at the altitude Uber has achieved and its desired rate of speed.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

In more practical terms, the CEO of business operations managed operational integration discussions, which allowed the COO to focus on delivering excellent service for our client partners. A deal team is made up of professionals covering all aspects of the integration, including experts from business operations, legal, tech, and finance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Sure enough, the company’s growth soon warranted yet another shift, and the board put COO Dick Costolo in the CEO role. The venture’s finances become more complex, and the CEO needs to depend on finance executives and accountants. These shifts are the stuff of truly riveting journalism, but aren’t surprising.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

The current innovation model in the finance sector is designed to generate the highest possible short-term returns. Startups alone won’t fill that vacuum: Stewards must emerge from the old guard of financial services. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

” When I do get a name, it often differs depending on who I asked—a marketing executive points to one person, while finance identifies someone else. The CAO should be under an executive that naturally spans all of the business units that have analytical needs, such as the Chief Strategy Officer, the CFO, and the COO.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2011

Christine Lagarde, French finance minister, said that digital technologies would drive 5.5% While not taking credit for Arab Spring , Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, noted that Facebook should be thought of not in terms of 500 million users but many more millions of overlapping communities based on mutual interests.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

That’s why, after years of operating without support staff (it’s been just me and my COO), I’ve recently hired a 24-year-old, Morgan, and given him the title of Director of Execution and Evolution. And I’m teaching him what it takes to build and run a business — from finances to operations to projections.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Five years ago, "shadow IT" efforts were the dirty little secret of organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2011

I was so confident in her idea that I convinced my former university professor husband to act as COO for the start-up, and we invested not only encouragement, but cash. Notwithstanding the fact that print journalism was already on the wane, I thought she had a good idea for an underrepresented topic in the women's lifestyle space.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

As AngelList COO Kevin Laws points out , “The business model exists to serve the mission, not the other way around.” A final subtlety: Making money is the foremost goal of the investor, to be sure, but it’s not always the primary mission of the start-up founder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 14, 2015

California has such a program , financed through the state’s disability insurance program. “I have had both women and men who’ve said, ‘I came here because of your policies, and because of what it says about rewarding and wanting fatherhood,’” says Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and author of Lean In.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

This career advice from Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg makes good sense based on research. Just as lack of consensus around finances can doom a marriage, lack of support from one''s spouse can effectively sink a career. "The most important career choice you''ll make is who you marry."

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

A 2012 industry survey asked top hospital leaders (CEOs, COOs, and others) what was necessary to improve the patient experience. Two, leadership rounds are an important means of exposing non-medical leaders in finance, operations, and other areas of the hospitals to the front lines of patient care.

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Health Care COO Operations Storytelling 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2015

Their VP of Finance kept warning them not to spend in a few key ways. “He cautioned us about our growth, but we never really listened,” says Cameron, who was the COO at the time. This was a promising position for the growing venture, but dissension soon broke out on the leadership team over how to grow. The problem?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

The CMO also worked with the finance office and product managers to link pricing and benchmark data into the RFP process, which improved quality and response times. That helped account managers focus their pitch on the client’s business issues and build rapport.

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P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

He led the finance team. She reported to the head of sales, who reported to the COO, and she and Brad rarely interacted at work. If you’d like your comment to be considered for publication, please be sure to include your full name, company or university affiliation, and email address. It was true: Brad wasn’t her boss.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules. Sarah McArthur – COO Marshall Goldsmith Inc. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited. Former President, Dow Chemical USA.

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Executive Coaching CEO Banking Magazine 70

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Stan had led a successful expansion into Canada in the 1990s when he was the COO, and Coe's had over 100 stores there now. "We've been considering Mexico, and Europe." Aubrey beamed. Our investors expect us to keep growing. Still, we need to do it smartly." In the height of the recession, U.S.

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