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Assess Your CEO’s Strategic Fit Over Time

Harvard Business Review

The company’s twenty years of entrepreneurial success had positioned the company to reap greater financial rewards using a more disciplined operational focus. However, by the middle of the decade, Google was growing, YouTube was forming, and “operational excellence” wasn’t a differentiating strategy in technology.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are. How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. Below, we explain some of the steps they’re taking: Evaluating the strategic fit. Insight Center.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Pharmaceutical companies, buffeted by regulatory changes, new drug technologies that alter entry barriers and competition, price pressures, and an estimated 300,000 job cuts since 2000, seem to fit the popular narrative of large organizations unable to deal with disruptive forces.

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You Can’t Engage Employees by Copying How Other Companies Do It

Harvard Business Review

Becton Dickinson , a global medical technology company, has made its purpose helping all people live healthier lives. As CEO of Campbell Soup between 2000 and 2010, Doug Conant employed quarterly engagement surveys to assess and develop high commitment in the company’s multiple business and operating units.