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6 Factors That Can Impact Your Commercial Business

Strategy Driven

Technological Advancements The rising pace of technological developments offers both opportunities and obstacles for commercial businesses. Technology can revolutionize the way businesses operate, offering new tools for efficiency, communication, and data analysis. Equally important is training and development.

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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)

Harvard Business Review

When I ask students graduating from Harvard Business School what they’re doing next, I often get some version of “I’m going into finance but…” Then they quickly explain that finance is just a way station on the route to nobler goals. And it is truly fascinating.

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How the CFO and General Counsel Can Partner More Effectively

Harvard Business Review

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. Here is a brief discussion of how the alliance works in key areas: Performance.

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Too Big to Manage: JP Morgan and the Mega Banks

Harvard Business Review

But, at the end of the day, it is bank leaders and employees who must take the right business, legal and ethical actions under existing law. Are these huge major financial institutions not just too big to fail, their leaders “too big to jail” (as some critics charge), but also “too big to manage”?

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There Are Two Types of Performance — but Most Organizations Only Focus on One

Harvard Business Review

military says, volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity , where technology and strategy changes rapidly. Three finance professors once asked more than 400 executives what they would do if their quarterly earnings targets were at risk. Before, tricky problems would be redirected to a risk manager.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation.

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Make Sure Your Team’s Workload Is Divided Fairly

Harvard Business Review

.” A few years ago, Michelle oversaw the implementation of a global HR technology platform—named “Genesis”—designed to improve workforce planning and analytics for Ford’s 150,000 employees across 42 countries. To make sure this happened she held regular forums for issue and risk management.