Chris Brady

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The inherent problem with our partisan political process is that the very essence of its structure imbibes a false assumption. This is exactly what happened, and as a result the money invested in commodity indices rose from just $13 billion in 2003 to over $317 billion in 2008 (twenty five times growth in less than five years).

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Banking Price Politics Letter 110

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. Boards should require that CEO candidates demonstrate not just knowledge of finance and marketing but also a technology aptitude. There have been breaches at companies such as Global Payments (1.5 million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5

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CEO CIO Technology CFO 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2017

Make sure existing products, processes, and culture do not prohibit the SaaS model from blossoming. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models. Collaborate and partner with cloud platform providers.

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Business Model Licensing Company Software 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

One issue right now is that the biggest element of the fiscal cliff — the scheduled expiration of the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 — is less the product of conscious pre-commitment than of American legislative complexity. And there's the Budget Control Act of 2011. That's where the Bush tax cuts came in.

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