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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

For example, successfully deploying CRM software on time and to budget will deliver little unless sales, customer services, and fulfillment processes are redesigned, staff trained to have the right conversations with customers, data quality improves, and marketers build the right competencies to use all the data that will now be available to them.

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

Harvard Business Review

And in the market more broadly, there is a sense that certain kinds of bad assets should be avoided.” ” How Dodd-Frank could make the next crisis worse: “I have two concerns that persist. It is completely unclear to me how to justify this, full stop. We’ve [got] growth prospects in the stock market.