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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. His idea was to turn investor relations on its head by using regular meetings with top-class investors as something akin to due diligence.

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How to Transform a Traditional Giant into a Digital One

Harvard Business Review

Change the dialogue in the senior leadership team to focus on the end-to-end customer experience. Balancing the short-term and long-term is a dynamic leadership challenge. Soon after, Trian did due diligence on the company and bought a $2.5 Tom Watson, Jr. Radically cut costs in the old business to fund the new game.