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

Harvard Business

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That means that 70% of acquisitions of firms in the technology sector over the past three years have been made by organizations outside of it.

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What Amazon’s HQ2 Wish List Signals About the Future of Cities

Harvard Business

The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks. And for good reason: “HQ2,” as it’s being called, would create upwards of 50,000 high-paying jobs and billions of dollars of new investment in whichever city it locates in.

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What Multinationals Need to Do to Succeed in Africa

Harvard Business

Fueling this dynamism, Africa is adopting technology at a furious pace: it will soon have double the number of smartphone connections than North America. In large part it was SABMiller’s success across the African continent that made it such a growth star and justified the eye-watering price tag for its takeover. billion by 2050.