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6 Digital Strategies, and Why Some Work Better than Others

Harvard Business Review

Digital technology has been roiling markets and disrupting companies for more than two decades, but despite that lengthy history, incumbents are still struggling to enact and deliver on digital transformations. Sponsored by DXC Technology. How the best companies get up to speed. Insight Center. Crossing the Digital Divide.

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The Three Decisions You Need to Own

Harvard Business Review

When resources are allocated from the bottom up instead of from the top down, they get out of sync with what the senior team is trying to accomplish. Today most if not all industries are impacted by digitization—mobile technology, big data, and the like. It has a tremendous effect on which people are more critical than others.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. Some 62.4%

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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

spoke up. “We was painfully aware of the consequences of the stock slide, which now amounted to 20% from the peak, with no bottom in sight. With the company’s share price sinking and its cost of capital rising, those deals might have to be put on hold. ExSolv claimed to have a technology for extracting oil from sand.