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The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

Harvard Business

At its most basic, blockchain is a vast, global distributed ledger or database running on millions of devices and open to anyone, where not just information but anything of value – money, titles, deeds, music, art, scientific discoveries, intellectual property, and even votes – can be moved and stored securely and privately.

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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. They aim to help companies protect enterprise value. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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A Dedicated Team of Problem Solvers Can Help Big Companies Act Like Lean Startups

Harvard Business

But for large enterprises seeking to grow by exploring new lines of business, thinking more like a startup makes a lot of sense. At a meeting with a large bank, one of the senior executives said, “You know we have a problem that’s really giving us trouble. This isn’t market research, but hands-on problem solving.

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Investors Today Prefer Companies with Fewer Physical Assets

Harvard Business

This scaling limitation seems to have an effect on enterprise value, and their multiples also fail to rise much higher than two. As we mentioned previously, physical assets have a number of drawbacks, compared to digital, intellectual, and relationship assets. On the top half of the chart, things get interesting. Reallocate capital.

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Backdoor Government Decryption Hurts My Business and Yours

Harvard Business

Nowadays, cyberattacks come from a wide range of actors — from individual cybercriminals using ransomware to extort money from your local dentist, to sophisticated foreign states attempting to steal intellectual property. market accounts for more than $1 trillion.). firms lose $15.4 We’d be asking U.S.

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Why the WTO Should Constrain the Power of China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Harvard Business

Such state-owned enterprises or state-supported industries (SOEs) — think steel, aluminum and solar panels — have flooded global markets , depressed prices, and literally shut down hundreds of U.S. solar-panel startups. firms will not.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business

Break-ups, which require a legal finding that the structure of a company is enabling anti-competitive behavior, seem now to have become a synonym for somehow crippling a successful enterprise. Tech companies, like any other enterprise, are already subject to a complex tangle of laws, varying based on industry and local authority.