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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Compared to its peers, FTI Consulting is a youngster in the consulting industry. Originally founded in 1982 by Dan Luczak as “Forensic Technologies International Ltd., Luczak pioneered solutions at the intersection of law, communications and technology that affected not only the cases he was involved in, but the industry itself.

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Data Breaches Aren’t Just an IT Issue - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM VERIZON

Harvard Business

Understanding the types of attacks that are most likely to affect your industry will enable you to spend smarter and protect your company more effectively. Over the past decade, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) has become the leading global source of information about the world of cybercrime and security breaches.

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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. technology firms. firms lose $15.4 We’d be asking U.S. trillion this year. billion in 2019.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever. The companies to focus on would be those that import heavily from China, such as big retailers like Walmart or branded orchestrators like Apple. The key here would be to identify U.S.