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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Are you focusing opex and capex on these priorities in order to build competitively differentiated capabilities? Who is responsible for regulatory compliance? One CEO we know worried that some principles developed by his senior team were too generic to help them evaluate different operating model options. ” he asked. .”

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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. .”