Company: DHR
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000313616-25-000043
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Company: DANAHER CORP /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-02-20
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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 products and services could adversely affect our competitiveness (particularly if our competitors successfully deploy AI in their businesses, products and services), and the development and deployment of AI will require additional investment and increase our costs.  There also may be real or perceived social harm, unfairness, or other outcomes that undermine public confidence in the use and deployment of AI.  Any of the foregoing may result in decreased demand for our products or harm to our business, financial statements or reputation.

The legal and regulatory landscape surrounding AI technologies is rapidly evolving and uncertain, including in the areas of intellectual property, cybersecurity and privacy and data protection.  Compliance with new or changing laws, regulations or industry standards relating to AI may impose significant costs and may limit our ability to develop, deploy or use AI technologies.  Failure to appropriately respond to this evolving landscape may result in legal liability, regulatory action, or brand and reputational harm.

Global health crises, pandemics, epidemics or other outbreaks can adversely impact certain elements of our business and financial statements. 

Our global operations expose us to risks associated with public health crises, including epidemics and pandemics such as COVID-19.  The global spread of COVID-19 led to unprecedented restrictions on, and disruptions in, business and personal activities, including as a result of preventive and precautionary measures that we, other businesses, our communities and governments undertook to mitigate the spread.  Any resurgence of COVID-19 (or the outbreak of any epidemic or pandemic) or the reinstatement of similar preventive measures in the future could negatively impact the economies and financial markets of the world and our business and financial statements.  To the extent we develop and sell products to help epidemics or pandemics in the future, as such epidemics/pandemics evolve we may experience volatility and declines in demand that are unanticipated in timing or magnitude, which could adversely affect our business and financial statements. 

Certain of our businesses rely on relationships with business partners and other third-parties for development, supply and/or marketing of certain products, potential products and technologies, and such business partners or other third-parties could fail to perform sufficiently.

For certain of our businesses, success in penetrating target markets depends in part on their ability to develop and maintain business relationships with other companies.  Relying on these relationships is risky because, among other things, our business partners may (1) not devote sufficient resources to the success of our collaborations; (2) fail to obtain regulatory approvals necessary to continue the collaborations in a timely manner; (3) be acquired by