Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2017

Doing digital M&A right means upending the way most companies approach financing, due diligence, and merger integration. Let’s start with financing the deal. Meanwhile, because digital targets tend to be expensive, acquirers are limited in their ability to use stock to finance a deal. Sponsored by DXC Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2018

One evening in February 2016, writer and filmmaker Ava DuVernay met with two top Disney executives about the possibility of directing an adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel A Wrinkle in Time. Monzino/Getty Images. DuVernay, 44 at the time, had overcome many challenges to reach that moment.

Film 15

Film Engineering Budgeting Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 28, 2017

Total investment (internal and external) in AI reached somewhere in the range of $26 billion to $39 billion in 2016, with external investment tripling since 2013. Without support from leadership, your AI transformation might not succeed. Successful AI adopters have strong executive leadership support for the new technology.

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Survey Execution First-mover Advantage Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2017

Yet progress within organizations has been slow – there is still a lack of women and minorities in leadership positions, and certain industries like tech and finance are lacking diversity at all levels. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap.

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Diversity CEO Rogers Leadership Pipeline 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 1, 2016

Increasing the social media marketing budget is not digital transformation. Real digital transformation requires transformation at a deeper level—transformation of the leadership team’s core beliefs. Jeffrey Immelt, CEO of GE, started off 2016 by saying : “We can’t be an industrial company anymore.

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Business Model Industry Metrics Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Banking Self-aware 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

As of February 2016, the top 10 unicorns for market capitalization are: Uber, Xiaomi, Airbnb, Palantir, Meituan-Dianping, Snapchat, Didi Kuaidi, Flipkart, and SpaceX. A complete list of unicorns is published by The Wall Street Journal; as of February 2016, it includes a total of 146 companies. Financed by VC firms.

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