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Boards Should Take Responsibility for Cybersecurity. Here’s How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

While security executives have a reputation for stymieing operations and product development with the burdens of technical operations, their role is actually to enable business. Ensure that the organization develops and implements a cybersecurity curriculum for all employees. Their job, in fact, depends on it.

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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? A decade after the global financial crisis, many banks remain averse to risk, and their legacy talent pools, processes, and IT systems are ill-suited to major change. None of these are easy questions.

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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

If asked about cost savings, be ready to deliver your pitch on how you intend to reduce or eliminate capex spending, reduce personnel resources, move services to a pay by month model eliminating long term contracts and ultimately reduce your annual budget by a modest percentage year over year over a 3-5 year period of time.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ. rate for other companies.

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

Harvard Business Review

On February 3 President Trump issued an executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a sweeping review of financial regulation, including Dodd-Frank , the financial reform bill passed, in 2010, as part of the Obama administration’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession.