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

Harvard Business Review

But while cybersecurity is now on the agenda at board meetings, this doesn’t mean that board members understand how to tackle the issue. After all, most board members have expertise in other forms of risk, and not in how to protect corporate assets from nation-state attackers and highly organized cyber adversaries.

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IT Cannot Be Only the CIO's Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

IT is not something that can be managed from a box on the organizational chart. It may make costs more predictable and shift investments from CapEx to OpEx. How to Compete When IT Is Abundant. IT management Information & technology' Unfortunately, this is not the view in most C-suites. They never have!

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You, Too, Can Move Your Company Into the Cloud

Harvard Business Review

So it comes as no surprise that whenever I spend time with industry peers who have yet to move to the cloud, there is a palpable sense of fear and overwhelming anxiety about how to even think about the process. the next five years, new employees coming into your company won''t know (or care) how to use Outlook or mapped drives.

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Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

Savor of Temple found that firms led by single CEOs engage in much more aggressive investment behavior, in terms of capex, innovation activity, R&D, and acquisitions, than companies led by married chief executives. The same kinds of dynamics probably play out among lower-level managers too, Roussanov says in this Wharton video.

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

Harvard Business Review

His bottom line: “For a manager running a nonfinancial business, the proposed reforms to Dodd-Frank are probably a bad trade-off.” It is completely unclear to me how to justify this, full stop. And not very much capex , not very much innovation. For more on what the law does, go here.