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Small broker-dealers are facing a dilemma

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B-Ds must ask themselves whether they’re in the advice or the sales business

What business, precisely, is your company in?

That question and the responses it gets from top corporate executives have been studied for years by academics at leading business schools, who have found that many enterprises, even giants like Eastman Kodak, have paid a high price for mistakes in de

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