CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The basic math of CEO succession is as simple as it is unforgiving. Selection criteria quickly devolve into a long laundry list of generic leadership attributes, and potential candidates pale in comparison with the one who’s currently excelling in the role. Timing is everything.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The interview is part of FutureCFO's Fem ale Leadership in Finance Series. I can vividly remember my first high school economics class, that was when I first realized that math wasn’t only theoretical. Our CEO often says it’s easy to act on a strong signal but true leadership is about acting and being prepared against a weak signal.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I talked to Lenore Blum , she was one of the first professors of math at Berkeley, and she was talking about how difficult it was and how eventually her contract was not renewed, how she was almost kicked out of her next university, before she went on to a great career and success. That there can be quiet leaders, extroverted leaders.

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Global Finance

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Arcesati notes, “The US has historically excelled at attracting top STEM [science, technology, engineering and math] talent from abroad, while China has struggled to do so. But it’s not unimaginable that, because of bad policies in the West that push Chinese talent away, China gains more ground.”

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CFO Leadership

APRIL 5, 2023

When you give everyone in the company $5 along with this challenge…you do the math. Hopefully you’ve taken this opportunity to dive deep into how building a culture of gratitude and connectedness is the single most cost effective way to solve the ‘employee engagement’ problem your leadership team has been talking about.

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Jedox Finance

JULY 6, 2021

A friendly warning: This involves some math, which is necessary to explain how these metrics work. In this blog post we will cover some commonly used metrics for time series forecasting, how to interpret them, as well as the limitations of each metric.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s look closer at the headcount math. To persuade your leadership team, you need to answer questions in real time. NoMoreOffice currently doesn’t have any special benefits for remote employees. Current staff. Expected hires over the coming years. First, you can see we’ve spread out the actual hiring over the course of the year.

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Future CFO

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The CFO role requires certain traits and skills, said Woranat Dumrongsiri (pictured), Country CFO, Deloitte Thailand and Deloitte Laos during an interview with FutureCFO for the publication’s Female Leadership in Finance Series. I started to like numbers and did very well in Math. My financial career is quite a long journey.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She has a really fascinating background, very eclectic, a combination of math and law. You, you get a, a BS in Mathematics and a JD from Boston University Math and Law. It is something, math has always come easy to me since a child. I didn’t get an advanced degree in math. Not the usual combination. What happened?

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CFO Talks

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The IEC, under her leadership, has received a clean audit for the past two financial years. I think what caught my attention is that it’s someone with very good maths skills and I think that’s when it started off and it planted a seed in my heart to say this is exactly what I want to do.

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CFO Talks

JULY 6, 2022

I was always the science kid, I use to love science and math and technology, that was a big thing for me. Things like team leadership, communication and presentation. It’s these softer skills that really separate the senior finance executive from maybe the middle tier and lower order. Would you agree with that?

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Onplan

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Let’s look closer at the headcount math. To persuade your leadership team, you need to answer questions in real time. NoMoreOffice currently doesn’t have any special benefits for remote employees. Current staff. Expected hires over the coming years. First, you can see we’ve spread out the actual hiring over the course of the year.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 13, 2022

And the interaction that I had with the training folks, and the leadership in that particular office in Upstate New York, it was in Watertown, of all places, if anyone’s been to New York. And new leadership came in. The leadership we had at Prudential was great. So, it was pretty robust. I was failing miserably.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

One, one is true and I’ve always said is that I wanted people to stop, ask if I could doing math. And no one asked me if I can do math anymore with a degree from Booth, particularly in econometrics and statistics. So people really ask you, you take French and can you do math. Two reasons. It’s incredible.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

And from there, I I really realized that while I loved being an investor or making investment recommendations, I also felt like it wasn’t perhaps my true genius and that I might be more successful in the long run to focus on a leadership direction of my, my career.

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CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

And so, that’s been my form of leadership and how I’ve taken to running my business. Because I’m only as good as my team members and, if they’re not doing well and they’re not performing, then we’re all going to struggle.

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Barry Ritholtz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

And I did the math, and I think at that point in time, roughly speaking, assets in ETS were roughly just 10 percent, 12 percent of assets in mutual funds and I was pretty convinced that that number was to increase significantly. One is our leadership in thematic investing. You have the liquidity, the tax efficiency, the transparency.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 18, 2023

This is an “outside-in” strategy that can be executed with little to no change to an organization’s internal values, leadership, and operations. But, as a matter of math , if your preference for diversity and inclusion supersedes that of compositional merit or worthiness, you will necessarily get a repertoire that is lower in quality.

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Barry Ritholtz

JUNE 27, 2023

And so it’s one of these things that math works. And again, really kudos to Paul for his leadership in doing that. Tell us about Math for America that seeks to improve math education in US public schools. BORISH: So Robinhood Foundation, Math for America, those are the two not-for-profit boards that I sit on.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And I did a lot of options math, which I thought was interesting. And again, I’m talking about from the, you know, from the leadership on, you know, on throughout the organization because ultimately we are the fourth strategy. 00:07:26 And then I moved on to the equities team afterwards. And I just learned a tremendous amount.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

RITHOLTZ: We’ll talk a little bit about leadership and crew development a little later. So let’s discuss leadership and what you do to develop crew members and to identify and foster other people’s leadership skills. So, Ken ended up being one of the best bosses I’ve ever had in my career.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Number one, and I think they both reflect strong leadership at the firms. Number one, you had, you know, somewhat of a groundswell from within the firm, certainly at leadership that said we need to figure out a way to do something. RITHOLTZ: Why is it not surprising that a math nerd is also a placekicker? SHAW: Yeah. SHAW: Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

RITHOLTZ: So you would like to see leadership from the U.S. So as much as I’m personally still a pretty strong skeptic of active management, I mean, I understand the math, and the odds are not in your favor. I read all those academic papers, I understand where the math comes from. It’s how math works.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Children who participate in Girl Scouts learn life and leadership skills, and receive an education in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and business. “It helps us with planning sales forecasting … [including having] awareness of where sales are coming from and how much the sale is.”. Future Entrepreneurs.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 9, 2023

So I took it upon myself to go off and took a course in bond math, took another course in derivatives and realized the underlying fundamental concepts were barely, I mean, it wasn’t even high school math in most cases. I didn’t know what any of these terms meant.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 30, 2023

BRYANT: So money, unlike math, money is highly emotional. I mean, there’s 50,000 kids in the Atlanta public school system, so you can do the math there. I believe I love math because it doesn’t have an opinion, that’s a Melody Hobson quote. RITHOLTZ: Right. BRYANT: Number two, money is emotional. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’m good at math and science and you know, I always had an idea what go into business, but I felt that electrical engineering would be a good foundation. You know, I, it always, I I see different numbers all the time, so it’s always kinda like, who’s math if you will? 00:02:16 [Speaker Changed] Me too.

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Barry Ritholtz

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You serve as the National Leadership Council of Communities in Schools, and the Educational Foundation in New York. RIEDER: So I mean, I’m less involved than I was on the national leadership. How are we doing in literacy versus math versus science? You mentioned, 3 Rs, reading, writing, arithmetic. Where are we?

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 29, 2024

Gave me some great advice about leadership and changing the way you think as you get more senior in an organization. You know, don’t be overwhelmed by the, the vocabulary or the math or things that frighten people away from the industry. Yeah, those are probably the biggest two. It’s a fantastic industry to be part of.

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Barry Ritholtz

MAY 21, 2024

I’m kind of in intrigued by the idea of philosophy and math. So I found myself getting kind of bored with my math problem sets, and then I could shift to philosophy and then go back and forth. And to his credit, and this is a, a good display of leadership Yes. What was the career plan? 00:01:48 [Savita Subramanian] Yeah.

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Barry Ritholtz

APRIL 8, 2025

I like to think that, you know, in core wealth management, Morgan Stanley, and, and you know, where we’ve come, you know, first under James Gorman and now hopefully under, under Ted Pick’s leadership is really, you know, differentiating us and allowing us to pull away from the pack, at least in wealth management. Remember that.

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CFO News Room

JANUARY 3, 2023

I mean, I got to interview the comedian Sarah Cooper about humor at work this year and Rolling Stone editor Jann Wener about managing creative talent, and most recently I talked to director Ron Howard about collaborative leadership. What NASA does really blows my mind in part because I’m a words person, not a math and science person.

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Barry Ritholtz

JANUARY 7, 2025

00:43:02 [Speaker Changed] I think the one that’s most salient that we track most closely, Barry, is the fact that because the math broke at the investor level in N 22, early 23, we’re still playing catch up on that. Now we’re starting to come out of that now, but that math is still nowhere near where it needs to be.

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Barry Ritholtz

JULY 31, 2023

I mean, you’re talking about, I don’t, I could do the math, it’s like a 10,000% return in like three weeks. And that’s sort of the math. HOFFMAN: How dare you try to do anything doesn’t have to do with running your business day to day, which is what a lot of the sort of pandemic leadership involved.

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

You’re doing a lot of math in your head on the Fly. I’m doing, I’m doing an awful lot of math in my head on the fly. It also brought in, you know, interest rates and interest rates expect, because the forward curve is a function of interest rates [ Gary Cohn ] 00:10:52. What, what was it like stepping into that role?

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Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A good example of that is like you take something from a cognitive reflection testy or something — like — I’ll make it real simple so we don’t have to like do the weird math on this. Like you’re running a race and you pass the person on second place, what place you’re in. RITHOLTZ: UCLA or USC?

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 30, 2022

million eligible members did not vote in the election because the UAW leadership deliberately kept them in the dark. How did they do it?” • For math mavens! “Socialist candidate Will Lehman exposes massive voter suppression in the UAW elections” [ WSWS ]. One million out of 1.1 This is not a matter of opinion but of provable fact.

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