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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Class All His Own
he founded in 1956. Last November, Brigham was among the first to be elected to the Hall of Fame of Financial Executives International, a professional organization for CFOs and senior finance executives where he has been a member for 45... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
COO & CFO “So you’re thinking of my contributions in terms of revenue alone?” Katrina VP, Private Label Products “I understand we’re a family, but we have to put emotions aside. This is a business.” Petja Founder & CEO “I don’t know if... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Lee. After two years working as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Safin was given the option to become an assistant to the CFO or an associate in investment banking in Moscow. "I was... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
income and unrestricted current-use gifts accounted for 24 percent of total revenue, MBA tuition and fees 18 percent, and housing rentals 3 percent. The School ended the year with 219 full-time faculty and 1,146 full-time administrative staff. In his overview of HBS’s... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led its CFO to express doubt that Media General could remain in compliance... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
the potential to transform or create new industries. Prior to forming Acorn Ventures, Lumry was EVP and CFO of McCaw Cellular Communications. As one of the founders of McCaw Cellular in 1982, he helped Craig McCaw create the nation's... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
& Young's Jim Turley. "Celebrity CEOs and CFOs became cheerleaders for marketing and sales and forgot their role as the conscience of their organizations," he said. " But there's been a lot of changes in the last eight... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
contribution is positively associated with proxies for quality of accruals and governance. Next, we investigate the implications of accruals' predictive value for accrual-based market anomalies. We find that portfolios formed on stock return predictions using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
We routinely hear board directors, CEOs, and CFOs of publicly-listed corporations refer to shareholders as owners of the corporation. Under this thinking, it is natural to conclude that the board’s duty is to its shareholders. Contrary to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
- Web
Ripple Effect | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
work closely with Mayor Menino and senior members of his administration.” In his role, Nicolette spent time working for the superintendent and CFO of Boston Public Schools, helping address a budget shortfall just after the 2008 financial... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
A Passion for Education
to CFO and oversaw the company’s initial public offering. In 1993, he joined medical device maker Medtronic as senior vice president and CFO, a position he held for a dozen years and from which he retired in 2005. Investing in Future... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
Clinton as assistant secretary and CFO of the Department of Commerce, Bilmes’s attention shifted to government spending. “The government is good at making promises, but poor at valuing what those promises are going to cost,” says Bilmes,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
Kimberly Allen (HBS '00), the opening keynote address was delivered by Heidi Miller, CFO of Citigroup. Miller, whom Fortune magazine cited as one of the fifty most powerful women in business, shared her belief in the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Steady as She Goes
Courtesy Coles This was going to be the year everything got back to normal. Since Leah Weckert (MBA 2008) became the CFO at Australia’s Coles Group in 2018, the supermarket giant had announced a demerger—the largest in the country’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operating budget of $200 million, finds the challenge of functioning with a break-even bottom line to be considerable. Deborah M. Winshel (MBA 1985) spent thirteen years at J.P. Morgan before putting her skills to work as SVP and CFO at... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
Reporting and Control (FRC) professor, Jonas Heese, to write a case about stock-based compensation, and actually got to work with Twitter’s CFO as part of the process. Independent Projects are flexible arrangements that allow students to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
by examining the association between top executive turnovers and guidance. Although firm and industry characteristics are important determinants of guidance, we conclude that CEOs participate in firm-level policy decisions, whereas CFOs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
got on a plane and went to California for the first time, eventually finding a secretarial job at a starting salary that would have driven down our class average dramatically, had I reported it to HBS. But I knew this was the world where I wanted to work. I’d met the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Lowell Robinson is a numbers guy, with a twist. "A company's numbers tell a story," says the reflective CFO and executive vice president of the Manhattan-based PRT Group Inc., a high-tech services firm. "When you make that story come... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
We went out to a good section of America for a grassroots response to what Napa means." Socratic Learning Scott Rozic, founder and CEO of XMarkstheSpot, recalls the tough questions that former CFO of Silicon Graphics Stan Meresman... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap