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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Over the past five years, Apple and Google have made significant moves in the automotive, healthcare, media, and smart home markets, among many others. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. It’s not an industry in itself.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In the span of 9 years, the firm acquired more than 16 consulting companies in 5 different markets, including Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, the United States and Latin America. Intellectual property. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. Automotive. companies by Fortune Magazine.

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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

Imagine the changes afoot in the pharmaceutical, medical device, automotive, and consumer electronics industries. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value? 3D printing is poised to redefine global manufacturing and distribution.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

their production capacity, which obviously varied considerably) and the competitive intensity of their markets (which ranged from perfect competition to near monopoly, because of regulatory differences between states). Traditional automotive manufacturers certainly do. What companies fall into this quadrant?

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You Don’t Have to Be a Software Company to Think Like One

Harvard Business

You’re competing against platforms like Uber in transportation, Google in automotive, Airbnb in hospitality, LinkedIn in recruiting, Netflix in television, and the list goes on. When modular in design, they adapt easily for different markets and can evolve over time.

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The Uber-Waymo Lawsuit: It Should Be Easy to Poach Talent, But Not IP

Harvard Business

Levandowski also hasn’t allowed Uber to search any of his personally owned devices and refused to answer any questions that may implicate his utilization of Waymo’s intellectual property while in Uber’s employ. Levandowski knows stealing trade secrets is a federal crime punishable by up to 10 years of imprisonment.

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Industry-Academic Partnerships Can Solve Bigger Problems

Harvard Business

By locating our new research center near the technology institute, we hope to have our scientists partner with theirs so that new ideas can go from “basic science” to “business” more quickly, offering solutions better suited to the Indian market.