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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? For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. sweetvenom/Getty Images.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

The type of capital required and its source depends on the type of business, its stage of life, and its strategy for the future. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment. Entrepreneurs and small business owners need to access capital to start and to grow.