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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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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?

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

Harvard Business Review

And the cost in terms of lost output, lost jobs, lost houses, lost opportunities, as well as political repercussions, was so enormous that it seemed to mandate a very big rethinking of the financial system. . And not very much capex , not very much innovation. We’ve [got] growth prospects in the stock market.