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Why Companies Are Using M&A to Transform Themselves, Not Just to Grow

Harvard Business Review

A chain of pharmacies announces its intent to acquire a health insurer. The current cohort of acquisitions goes well beyond the typical defensive, synergy-driven, horizontal integration that marked previous M&A spurts. A brick-and-mortar retailer buys an e-commerce platform. But there’s more to it than that.

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A Board Director's Perspective on What IT Has to Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Recent, well-documented examples include Progressive Insurance''s use of predictive modeling in the property and casualty insurance space and the many industrial manufacturing companies that are generating almost all their margin and profit from after-sale, value-added services based on information generated by embedded sensors.