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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

For more than 60 years, investors, analysts, business leaders, and even governments, have classified companies based on industries. Industry walls are disintegrating at a rapid pace. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS. It’s not an industry in itself.

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What Innovators Who Create New Markets Do Differently

Harvard Business

It offers the immense potential to innovate new markets where none existed before: Think of the billion-dollar industry the Square credit card reader unlocked, for example.

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How to Implement AI — Responsibly

Harvard Business

Researchers engaged with organizations across a variety of industries, each at a different stage of implementing responsible AI.

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Apple’s Pact with 13 Health Care Systems Might Actually Disrupt the Industry

Harvard Business

These problems notwithstanding, the announcement of this collaboration between leading American providers of health and information technology services likely signals a new era in health and medicine. The partnership and its results will not solve all our health care problems. But they could really shake things up.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms In New York

Management Consulted

In the New York office, the industries McKinsey caters to are financial services, health care services, advanced electronics, aerospace and defense, and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications). Bainies in NYC work to support their clients on nearly every industry and across all ranges.

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Recalibrate Your Strategy in China with This Framework

Harvard Business

This 2×2 will help your company navigate Beijing’s priorities and political sensitivities.

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How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data

Harvard Business

The water industry is using digital technologies and analytics to derive more value from its physical assets. These issues aren’t unique to the water industry; they’re also relevant to companies in other industries that are using data and digital tools that are increasingly available.