Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end affirmative action programs at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and Harvard University will likely have a negative impact on the diversity of the student populations on many college campuses unless those campuses take other proactive measures. Looking beyond college campuses, however, there…
The advent of the digital era has seen a progressive escalation of cyber threats targeting the global supply chain — a matrix-like network composed of manufacturers, suppliers, distributors and retailers. A single vulnerability within this intricate network can provide a gateway for adversaries to infiltrate and compromise the entire supply…
Wajih Atallah contributed to this story. Video games have come a long way in the past 30 years. In the early 90s, games were primarily played on consoles such as the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, and graphics were much simpler compared to today's games. The gameplay was also more…
We live in an era in which the role of human resources is often challenged: media reports routinely fawn over the ability of artificial intelligence to replicate many "traditional" HR tasks, the move to remote work (and the switch back) has many HR teams struggling to find their place to…
Threads has already garnered over 70 million sign-ups in just two days since its launch, proving wrong the initial doubts about its success. Backed by Meta, Threads has several advantages that other Twitter challengers like BlueSky and Mastodon do not: a large existing user base that can transfer over, minimizing…
Determining the market potential of patents can be a complex task for entrepreneurs. The value of a patent doesn't necessarily equal the investment, and it may indeed be significantly higher or lower.The worth of a patent, or a collection of patents, depends on numerous factors. The operational context of the…
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A Financially Valid Approach To Consolidating, Simplifying, and Optimizing the Commercial Technology Portfolio Today, we have reached a tipping point where growing a business involves so much capital investment in technology and analytics it has broken the back of traditional models for planning, allocating, and managing growth investments. In all,…
Marketplaces have become extremely influential in ecommerce over the past three years. Major market players such as Amazon, Alibaba and JD attract millions of users, facilitating massive transactions across a wide range of product categories.They also generate a wealth of data on consumer behavior, preferences and trends. This strong market…
Though Beijing would never use the word, it has effectively admitted failure. Today’s implicit confession is really the second of its kind in the past six months. The first one came at the start of the year when Beijing rescinded the lockdowns and quarantines that were the signal parts of…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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