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How to Prepare for the Cyberattack That Is Coming to Your Company

BCG

Article Wednesday, December 07, 2016. The list of companies that have already been hacked, attacked, and breached—suffering business interruptions and intellectual-property losses and exposing their customers to identity theft—reads like a who’s who of the retail, tech, telecom, manufacturing, and financial services industries, among others.

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Data Breaches Aren’t Just an IT Issue - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM VERIZON

Harvard Business

And you probably won’t even know you’ve been affected until it’s too late to prevent significant damage to your company’s finances, operations, and reputation. Cyber-espionage : Attacks carried out by state-affiliated actors, often targeting intellectual property. The average DDoS attack delivers 1.89

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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Figure 4 : Final energy demand, 2016 – 2050. Innovation will be required to facilitate the rapid forced energy transition called for by international bodies, and the pace of innovation can be accelerated if it enjoys support from governments in the form of grants, subsidies, and intellectual property protections.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. Thus, technological innovation in these sectors tends to be financed by the government and carried out within government or quasi-government laboratories. This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. million by 2020.

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business

Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society. This includes basic research, applied research, and downstream patient and strategic long-term finance to companies. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance. billion in public support.