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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

And since people ultimately make all the difference, your operating model should define how you manage the assignments and career paths for your difference-making talent. Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? None of these are easy questions.

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

Harvard Business Review

Stress tests are a specific form of simulation developed by the Federal Reserve and other central banks to allow them to figure out how badly a given financial institution’s portfolio would hold up if there was a broad sell-off across a bunch of asset classes, or a specific kind of shock like what we suffered in 2008. Further Reading.