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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. Today, technology is just a standard part of corporate infrastructure, like operations or marketing. But Information Technology doesn’t seem like the right category to group them into.

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FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

Litigation technology. Intellectual property. Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property. Information Technology. Retail & Consumer Products. Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) Transportation. These include: Disputes Advisory Services. Litigation discovery.

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

Harvard Business

Cyber-espionage : Attacks carried out by state-affiliated actors, often targeting intellectual property. These attacks can bring mission-critical transactional systems in finance, retail, and other industries grinding to a halt, seriously impacting operations. The average DDoS attack delivers 1.89

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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.

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

Harvard Business

The companies to focus on would be those that import heavily from China, such as big retailers like Walmart or branded orchestrators like Apple. Trump knows how to use the bully pulpit to press this kind of thinking on all big-box retailers and big distributors. To do this, Trump needs to positively orchestrate more and threaten less.