A company’s chief operations officer—or COO—is responsible for one of the most important aspects of business: its day-to-day operations. Because the current and future success of any business depends ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Author, professor and founder. Deeply curious about leadership. Although CEOs might be in the limelight, great companies don’t run ...

At first glance, the chief information security officer (CISO) and chief operating officer (COO) appear to operate in fundamentally different worlds — perhaps even at odds with one another. While the ...

Regular listeners to our COO Roundtable podcast have heard me make the claim many times that the average RIA owner drastically discounts the value of a chief operating officer because, in their minds, ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Part of becoming a successful chief operations officer (COO) is moving past your mistakes. I have often found that you must get out of ...

Initialized Capital promoted Livingston Miller to chief operating officer. Miller, who has been serving as general counsel since 2021, will remain in that role. Former COO Jennifer Wolf said she is ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. At the executive level in a company, the chief operating officer is probably the least understood and least defined role. Others, such as ...