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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

Many of our current economic measurements saw their birth in the Industrial Age when the companies that were growing and shaping the world were giants with big physical plants and lots of material products — companies like Exxon Mobile and GE. Technology Creators generate and deliver intellectual property (software and data).

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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. For example, printing products on demand would significantly reduce the U.S. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value?

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intellectual property. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. Automotive. Retail & Consumer Products. In this way, cross office politics can affect morale and productivity. These include: Disputes Advisory Services. Litigation technology. E-discovery software provider.

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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. That doesn’t mean that you should stop delivering your current products or services. Rethink the role of partnerships in your business model.

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Industry-Academic Partnerships Can Solve Bigger Problems

Harvard Business

Cross-functional teams of IIT-Madras and SGRI researchers with expertise in building sciences R&D focus on energy efficiency and sensory multicomfort (that is, visual comfort with optimal daylight, acoustic comfort, air quality, and thermal comfort), innovating by combining various existing products and affordable mass housing.

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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

For example, a key source of concern for some companies is more-restrictive rules of origin, which would reduce the amount of materials allowed to be used tariff-free for products traded to and from NAFTA member countries. So, if a company manufactures products in Mexico to export to Canada and the U.S.