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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

How do banks switch customer relationships from branch offices to mobile phone screens? Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? Banks emphasizing products, meanwhile, have turned to partnerships. sweetvenom/Getty Images. None of these are easy questions.

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Don’t Play with Dead Snakes, and Other Management Advice

Harvard Business Review

A lot of the Internet startups that we see coming through here raising money are startups that raised a half million dollars, that still have most of it in the bank. These companies have effectively no capex. It’s literally their laptops and their ramen noodles, and that’s it.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

The rethink took place in the context of a lot of skepticism (at best) about the banking system, the banking business model, and its contribution to American well-being. There also, however, is strong evidence that it is a bad idea to let big banks fail in the midst of a crisis.