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

BCG

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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PEST Analysis

Tom Spencer

If you are thinking about producing a strategic plan, developing a new product, entering a new market, engaging in a new venture, or financing a project then it probably makes sense to understand the big picture issues that could affect your success. Availability of financing (investment and grant funding). Industry regulation.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Intellectual property. FTI Consulting has 5 areas of expertise, but excels in Forensic & Litigation Consulting and Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. Retail & Consumer Products. Litigation technology.

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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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The Questions Executives Should Ask About 3D Printing

Harvard Business

manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers, according to a leading technology industry analyst. What happens, for example, if the value of a product’s underlying intellectual property overtakes its production value? trillion in inventories held by U.S.

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Investors Today Prefer Companies with Fewer Physical Assets

Harvard Business

In the lower left are builders, which include industries such as utilities, energy, transportation, and retail. You’ll notice that the finance industry is included in this group as well. We broke the chart into four quadrants, based on the groupings we observed. They are also value-light, with multiples topping out around two.

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business

They all pay taxes, report their finances, disclose significant shareholders, and comply with the full range of employment, health and safety, advertising, intellectual property, consumer protection and anti-competition laws, to name just a few.