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Don’t Acquire a Company Before You’ve Asked These Questions

Harvard Business

But while these are sensible strategies, few companies outside of the technology industry are achieving their desired returns on the eye-popping price tags of some of these deals, in part because they overvalue flashy technologies. Defensive Moats. Users in Different Ecosystems. And the company had plenty of motivated talent.

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Government Contracts Pricing Strategy – Ten Dynamic and Synergistic Pricing Practices

Granite Leadership Strategies

This information is vital in the pre-RFP stage for timely information to your leadership team on the pricing direction, the technical team for feedback on their solutioning price tag, and to your subcontractors, as you shape the top-down target prices.

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What Artificial Intelligence Can and Can’t Do Right Now

Harvard Business

For instance, building a photo tagger requires anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of pictures (A) as well as labels or tags telling you if there are people in them (B). Thus data, rather than software, is the defensible barrier for many businesses. You need to show the system a lot of examples of both A and B.

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What Mark Zuckerberg Understands About Corporate Purpose

Harvard Business

Last week Mark Zuckerberg published a strong defense of both globalization and Facebook’s business model. presidential election, when Facebook helped 2 million people register and vote, and brought voters closer to their representatives with the option to tag politicians’ names in Facebook conversations.

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How Masculinity Contests Undermine Organizations, and What to Do About It

Harvard Business

” Men react defensively when they even just think about job loss, or receive feedback suggesting they have a “feminine” personality. The competition breeds unspoken anxiety (because admitting anxiety is seen as weak) and defensiveness (e.g., And it doesn’t take much to make men feel like “less of a man.”

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The Legal Risks of Monitoring Employees Online

Harvard Business

Shore up your company’s first line of defense. Narrowing the scope of the monitoring by using tagging or similar technologies to track when data leaves a database and travels throughout a corporate network. Insight Center. The Human Element of Cybersecurity. Sponsored by Varonis. A risk-based approach for monitoring.

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3 Ways Companies Are Building a Business Around AI

Harvard Business

“There were lots of pictures in big agricultural universities, but no one had the information well-tagged. That visual training data is a scarce commodity, and a defensible business asset. . “Finding enough images of northern corn leaf blight [NCLB] took 10 months,” said Ganssle.

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