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Will China Bring Your Firm New Owners, Partners, or Competitors?

Harvard Business Review

and other developed markets? During the global financial crisis, Robert Remenar, CEO of Nexteer, a Michigan-based automotive steering firm, deliberately searched for potential new Chinese owners. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. But what happens when China goes West?

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

For Westerners at least, our working cultural definition owes a lot to robots in stories and film, as well as real-life robots past and present. million industrial robots are in use or available in various industries including automotive, electronics, rubber and plastics, cosmetics, pharmaceutical, and food and beverage. Technology'

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business Review

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. ” [Ford Smart Mobility’s] role is to design, develop, build, invest, and grow these mobility services. This is a play straight out of Clay Christensen’s disruption playbook.