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NSA Breaks Into Secure Communication Links of Google and Yahoo; Italian Magazine Claims NSA Monitors Pope

MishTalk

The NSA’s principal tool to exploit the data links is a project called MUSCULAR , operated jointly with the agency’s British counterpart, GCHQ. This allows for data/message confidentiality, and message authentication codes for message integrity and as a by-product message authentication. Italian Magazine Claims NSA Monitors Pope.

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The Best Digital Companies Are Set Up to Never Stop Innovating

Harvard Business

Companies born before the internet took hold have an enormous challenge: improving their online products and services at the warp speed of their online competitors. Newspaper, pay TV, magazine and other media companies that have been losing customers in droves to digital media firms like the Huffington Post or Netflix.

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The Best Companies Aren’t Afraid to Replace Their Most Profitable Products

Harvard Business

Self-cannibalization occurs when a company chooses to proactively replace one product or process with another that is potentially worth less. Forward-looking incumbents recognize the need to cannibalize their own products, rather than leaving it to other startups, who are more than happy to take on the challenge.

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Oliver Wyman interview preparation: the inside story

Management Consulted

They seized this opportunity to establish a firm that would help firms gain clarity about their business models, products, and clients and then advise them by creating long term strategies. The firm offers consulting services including strategy, operations, risk management, organizational transformation, and leadership development.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

With such an impressive list of early clients (including the United States of America), it is no wonder that by the end of the 1950s, Time Magazine dubbed Booz Allen Hamilton the “world’s largest, most prestigious management consulting firms.” Product and Service Innovation. Operations and Logistics. Consumer Products.

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business

If an industrial product like a car fails the manufacturer pulls it back, tests it and, if necessary, re-equips it. Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. It is hard to think of a single case.

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