Mississippi Business Journal » Curt Gabardi http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Assessing Metropolitan’s market timing: Experienced risk takers pulled it off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=assessing-metropolitan%25e2%2580%2599s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:44:19 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53863 It’s not like founder Curt Gabardi and his Metropolitan Bank partners decided to sell popsicles in an ice storm. But starting a bank as the nation’s financial sector verged on falling off a cliff? “Whether intentional or by chance, in a warped kind of way they probably picked the best time in the world to [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/assessing-metropolitan%e2%80%99s-market-timing-experienced-risk-takers-pulled-it-off/feed/ 0 Economic crisis gave Metropolitan Bank the opportunities it needed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:25:25 +0000 Ted Carter http://msbusiness.com/?p=53858 >> Gabardi’s idea was to cultivate a niche space in which Metropolitan’s bankers would compete against other bankers — not other banks As the sky seemed to be falling on the nation’s banking sector in 2008, veteran banker Curt Gabardi and his “Band of Bankers” executive corps decided there may never be a better time [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/12/economic-crisis-gave-metropolitan-bank-the-opportunities-it-needed/feed/ 0 Focused on new experience http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/03/focused-on-new-experience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=focused-on-new-experience http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/07/03/focused-on-new-experience/#comments Sun, 03 Jul 2011 06:00:28 +0000 Martin Willoughby http://msbusiness.com/?p=43033 In a competitive marketplace, one of the key opportunities for differentiation is to create a purposeful “experience” for the customer. Your customers are going to have some kind of experience, so the question is whether your organization is being proactive and purposeful to define and create that experience. Some companies who have created world-class “experiences” [...]

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