The Finance Weekly

JANUARY 18, 2024

It’s more of a leadership role” says Philip Rewcastle, CFO of the Consumer Lending Group at Wells Fargo, “versus the support role it was 10 years ago.” When it comes to leadership, the most successful CFOs agree that open, honest, and frequent communication is essential to avoid surprises.

CFO 52

CFO Communication Leadership Concentration 52

Future CFO

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

For Boo, discipline and resilience in working capital preservation are critical both in good and bad economic times. “To His other recommendations include: Digitise workflows as much as possible to promote sustainable operations and reduce time spent on manual administrative tasks so the team can concentrate on value-adding activities.

Treasury 98

Treasury Cash Management Restructuring Accounts Payable 98

Future CFO

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

These disruptive trends, according to Gartner, include business transformation, market competition, economic uncertainty, employee power in labor market, capital inefficiency, and executive confidence, according to the research firm. Economic uncertainty. Executive confidence.

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CFO Concentration Economics Investments 52

Future CFO

APRIL 15, 2020

It was greater in the case of younger, better-educated and more experienced CEOs, as well as for organisations with above-average power concentration at the top of the hierarchy, INSEAD said. While “Do CEOs matter?” has been a perennial question in management discourse, “the CEO effect” is difficult to isolate.

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Profit and Loss Concentration Education Economics 40

The Finance Weekly

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Companies looking to advance in this new economic environment will continue to rely on the same four strategies that have proven successful over the past 16 months. Concentrate on particular areas of improvement. As much of the developed world reopens, many businesses are optimistic and looking to invest in a new era of growth.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 52

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Economics Risk Management Reconciliations 52

Future CFO

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Concurrently, the company concentrated its IT functions in Australia and reducing the number of CIOs to one. Meanwhile, Kolathu referred to the Forrester Total Economic Impact study that was done to assess IBM’s MVS offering. Centralising shared services in Malaysia was not the only transformation that IBM did.

Finance 52

Finance Budgeting Concentration Technology 52

CFO Simplified

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Here are some areas you should consider in your planning: Customer Concentration Leadership Staffing Products Financial Resources Technology Customer Concentration is an easy one to understand. Leadership drives any business. Is your leadership concentrated in one office? Too many eggs in one basket.

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Concentration Leadership CFO Manufacturing 52

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 11, 2023

You’ve held leadership roles across just about every line of business in the company. RITHOLTZ: So let’s talk a little bit about your leadership experience. Let’s talk about some leadership lessons. JOHNSON: It became a much riskier investment by investing the S&P 500 based on volatility and concentration.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 85

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Investments Finance Technology 85

Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 7, 2023

Not to be like the Grim Reaper, but the reality is, if you’re not a multi manager and you’re not aggressively managing market risk, then you fall into the category of a long, short single manager that probably takes concentrated, more concentrated directional risk. They have economics. They have a pathway to be APM.

Investments 107

Investments Concentration Profit and Loss Economics 107

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 7, 2023

Maria Vassalou has a fascinating history and background, London School of Economics to Columbia School of Business, where she actually was a professor for over a decade, and started consulting to the hedge fund and financial services industry. At the same time, we are going through tectonic changes in the world economic order.

Investments 64

Investments Marketing Economics Risk Management 64

Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 26, 2024

You get a BA in economics and poli sci from the University of Delaware. And it had to do with the discipline of the models that he used and how he segmented economic liquidity, investor liquidity, and then technicals and and breath conditions and understood how they melded together. What was the original career plan?

Investments 56

Investments Marketing Concentration Economics 56

Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 4, 2023

So you would see pretty high concentrations of, you know, $100 million, $200 million, $300 million, all essentially sitting on a single balance sheet of the bank. You raised another $11 billion in capital, despite the economic environment. It’s ultimately about leadership, right? You guys had a huge year. KENCEL: Yeah.

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) 56

Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) Finance Investments Banking 56

Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

The economic dislocation, the health risks, just the mayhem that took place, but from the perspective of a number of corporate CEOs, Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital, the hedge fund that had a couple of amazing trades based on this. HOFFMAN: So obviously, I’ve — you know, economically minded from the jump.

Treasury 52

Treasury Economics Retail Entertainment 52

Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

You get an economics PhD from California, Berkeley in 82, and around the same time you become an economist at the Federal Reserve Board from 81 to 83. And so that can cause the impulse of the economic news to be filtered into financial conditions much more, more quickly. Let, let’s talk a little bit about your background.

Treasury 56

Treasury Marketing Economics Banking 56

Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 26, 2023

And economic indicators, like the unemployment rate or the claims data, and you know, we actually did some scenario analysis around that recently, just talking about, Hey, what happens if the employment rate rises versus falls? I mean, I, I haven’t done that much work. I think, I think it’s probably more useful.

Marketing 60

Marketing Leadership Finance Investments 60

CFO News Room

JANUARY 23, 2023

We should all be asking the same question — shouldn’t we all be as protected from COVID-19 as the attendees at the World Economic Forum are?” • But we aren’t asking that question, are we? Yet the desire for better COVID protections is not concentrated among the well-heeled, as these accounts have misleadingly suggested.

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Education Economics Concentration Marketing 130