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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

The success rate is generally low: On average, only 2% of the transactions flagged by the systems ultimately reflect a true crime or malicious intent. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Below, we explain some of the steps they’re taking: Evaluating the strategic fit.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. Integration is key. For ideas to become reality, a company needs repeatable processes, not only out-of-the-box insights.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. The results were fascinating.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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Microsoft’s Next CEO: How the Board Can Get It Right

Harvard Business Review

If the succession and search are not driven by those who have already run another firm, the company is, in our experience, less likely to end up with a CEO who can run this one. and abroad, we have come to conclude that too much of the debate around CEO succession misses one of the most important determinants of success or failure.

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