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Why Boards Aren’t Dealing with Cyberthreats

Harvard Business

Methodology This survey was conducted through a partnership between Professor Boris Groysberg and Yo-Jud Cheng from Harvard Business School; WomenCorporateDirectors Foundation, led by Susan Stautberg; Spencer Stuart, led by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher Deborah Bell.

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So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy

Harvard Business

Our experience with many global companies across industries and sectors has revealed a framework for pursuing growth through acquisition that lowers risks and helps beat the odds. Often the weakest assumptions involve estimates of how much additional revenue the companies can generate when combined. This, in turn, leads bidders to overpay.

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

For the industry, the biggest challenge by far has been talent: upgrading skill sets from those sufficient to analyze relatively small amounts of clinical trial data to those required to gain insights from the vast amount of real-world data, including unstructured data such as physicians’ notes, scans and images, and pathology reports.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business

We also found that industry matters. Boards of companies operating in the consumer discretionary industry have a disproportionately high representation of Democrats, while boards operating in the industrials and energy and utilities industries skew more Republican. METHODOLOGY.