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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

EB operates Ilum as a separate business, while still drawing on Merck’s established corporate resources in IT, finance, privacy, compliance, and legal. ” Usually, companies often want to utilize “core competencies” in order to expand into “adjacencies.” It’s not just products.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. Climate change, natural resource shortages, the growing gap between haves and have nots, and the fragility of financial systems are but a few of the critical problems it has spawned, and these are conspiring to become a perfect storm. What Can CEOs Do?

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