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  • 25 Jan 2023
  • News

The Road to the C-Suite, with Citi CFO Mark Mason

to the CFO office at Citi. In the interview, Mason talks about growing up in Queens, in a family full of business-minded people, but wanting to be a doctor when he was a child. Even from a young age there were signs that he had a knack... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 24 Feb 2019
  • News

Booz Allen’s CFO on Why It Pays to Ask for Help

  • 27 Jul 2012
  • News

How to Be Effective in the Global Economy and the Boardroom: CFOs Offer Lessons Learned on the Journey

  • May 2015
  • Case

Transforming Alkermes into a Global Biopharmaceutical Company

By: C. Fritz Foley and Nicholas Haas
In the summer of 2011, Jim Frates, CFO of Alkermes faced choices about how to finance the acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based Elan Drug Technologies (EDT)—a deal that was expected to close in the fall. The case describes the history of Alkermes, provides information... View Details
Keywords: Financing; Debt; Merger; CFO; Financial Management; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Europe
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  • June 2016 (Revised October 2016)
  • Technical Note

The Role of the Chief Financial Officer

By: C. Fritz Foley and Michael Lemm
This note profiles the role of the modern chief financial officer (CFO). It presents insights based on a variety of surveys and descriptions of HBS graduates who hold or have held the CFO role. Although the role varies significantly from one organization to another,... View Details
Keywords: CFO; Chief Financial Officer; Corporate Finance; Finance
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  • 05 May 2017
  • News

Former CFO Paula Price makes her career teaching, serving on boards

  • 15 Nov 2024
  • News

4 Expert Insights on How CFOs Can Be Better Leaders in 2025

  • August 2015
  • Exercise

Finalizing a Deal between Riva Corporation and Charlton Corporation: Riva's Internal Deliberation (D)—Riva's CFO

By: Andy Zelleke and Tony Mayo
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  • 21 Jun 2024
  • News

Cisco, ServiceRocket, and Checkr CFOs on How AI Is Changing the Way They Do Their Jobs

  • 13 Apr 2022
  • News

Robert L. Ryan (MBA 1970), Former CFO of Medtronic Inc. and Union Texas Petroleum, to be HBS' 2022 Class Day Speaker

  • April 24, 2023
  • Article

In the COVID Era, Why Corporate Benefits Demand CEO/CFO Leadership

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
The expectation that employers provide their employees’ health benefits has been around since World War II. Unfortunately, although today’s employees expect employers to treat them as individuals, ease their experiences, prioritize their wellbeing, and control cost,... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19 Pandemic; CEO; Leadership; Health Insurance; Benefits; CFO; Compensation and Benefits
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  • 03 Mar 2015
  • News

CFOs: You Don’t Need All the Answers, Just the Right Questions

  • September 2003
  • Case

Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd.

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
The CFO of this infant nutritional products company must choose among competing financing offers. The interplay of Chinese legal and customs restrictions and venture capitalists' bargaining techniques challenge the CFO to navigate a tricky negotiation and to devise a... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Working Capital; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; China
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  • November 2010 (Revised December 2010)
  • Case

Electro, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins
CFO of U.S. company preparing for U.K. analyst meetings reviews his company's 2008 earnings per share calculations. View Details
Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Standards; United Kingdom; United States
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  • March 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

Mittel Technologies, AG

By: David F. Hawkins
CFO of German heavy equipment manufacturer examines through company examples potential impact of proposed changes to revenue recognition rules. View Details
Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Manufacturing Industry; Germany
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  • July 2009 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

Wareham SC Systems, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins
CFO tests company's revenue recognition practices against the recently issued SAB 101 requirements and proposes plan for adoption of SAB 101. View Details
Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Standards
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  • June 1999
  • Supplement

Adesemi Communications International: African Communications Group

By: John A. Deighton and Anita M. McGahan
Presents a May 1999 interview with CEO Monique Maddy and CFO Lome Lague that updates the case and describes plans for the future. View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Communication Technology; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
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  • August 2010
  • Case

Flash Memory, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson
The CFO of Flash Memory, Inc. prepares the company's investing and financing plans for the next three years. Flash Memory is a small firm that specializes in the design and manufacture of solid state drives (SSDs) and memory modules for the computer and electronics... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting; Financial Management; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital Budgeting; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
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  • 25 May 2022
  • Video

2022 Class Day Distinguished Speaker Robert Ryan

  • 11 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

In 2015, Steve Kloeblen retired and thought he was done with the corporate world. A graduate of HBS Executive Education’s General Management Program, Kloeblen had more than 30 years of experience with IBM, culminating with his transition from CFO-type roles to success... View Details