Source: www.think.ing.com (ING Bank N.V.) Author(s): Carston Bryzeski, James Smith In this fast-moving environment, we need to think in scenarios, rather than pretending to know how the economy will evolve over the...
By: Taylor Tepper For: Newsweek That queasy feeling you got last month after you overindulged at a holiday party or knocked back one too many glasses of bubbly on New Year’s Eve? Chances are you may...
In the 1960s it took five hours to fly from New York to Los Angeles, and just 45 minutes to hop from New York to Washington, DC. Today, these same flights now take six-plus hours and 75 minutes respectively, although...
In one of its provisions, the bill makes it illegal for the IRS to create its own online system of tax filing. Companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, and H&R Block have lobbied for years to block the IRS from...
Mention McDonald’s to someone today, and they’re more likely to think about Big Mac than Big Data. But that could soon change: The fast-food giant has embraced machine learning, in a fittingly super-sized way....
Improvements in the precision of mobile technologies make it possible for advertisers to go beyond using static location and contextual information about consumers to increase the effectiveness of mobile advertising...
Brexit is still being negotiated, but the U.K.’s departure from the European Union will undoubtedly have a ripple effect around the world. One issue bringing the reality of Brexit into focus for Americans is travel:...
Spyce is the exciting new restaurant created by four MIT engineering graduates with the help of Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud and Sam Benson. This new Boston restaurant attempts to achieve the cost-effectiveness...
Apple doesn’t want you to see it as just a hardware company anymore. The maker of the iPhone on Monday announced four new efforts aimed at growing its services revenue as demand for its flagship phone levels...
Recently, a student asked one of us for advice on job interviews. She will be graduating from college soon and is actively seeking a position in her area of expertise (finance). She’s applying for jobs and a few...
Google employees have carried out their own investigation into the company’s plan to launch a censored search engine for China and say they are concerned that development of the project remains ongoing, The Intercept...
When Google conducted its annual pay equity analysis for 2018, the tech company found something nobody expected: It was underpaying men for doing similar work as women. The underpayment — which flips the typical...
Urban jobs that once offered a middle-class life to those without a college degree are disappearing. David Autor, a labor economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has a record of attacking the biggest...
A common belief among tech industry insiders is that Silicon Valley has dominated the internet because much of the worldwide network was designed and built by Americans. Now a growing number of those insiders are...
Here’s a new negotiating tactic: enjoy a family-style meal with your counterpart before making your opening bid. When people in a business negotiation share not just a meal but a plate, they collaborate better and...
It has been dubbed the “retail apocalypse” — the widespread shuttering of brick-and-mortar stores across America in the wake of online shopping’s skyrocketing popularity. But how do consumers...
China announced an array of punishments that could restrict companies’ access to borrowing and state-funding support over intellectual-property theft, a key sticking point in its trade conflict with the U.S. News of...
Pay-for-download The internet age has allowed the perfection of this particular fraud: I start a company to sell e-widgets over the internet. I produce e-widgets and sell them for $10. I pay my buddy $10 million to buy...
The sullen teenager grinding through a restaurant shift after school was once a pop culture cliche—as American as curly fries. Nowadays, Brad Hamilton, the teen played by Judge Reinhold in “Fast Times at Ridgemont...
Home improvement chain Lowe’s Companies Inc (LOW.N) announced the closure of another 51 underperforming stores in the United States and Canada on Monday as it strives to compete with rival Home Depot Inc (HD.N) in a...
Researchers have used a combination of social media and transport data to predict the likelihood that a given retail business will succeed or fail. Using information from ten different cities around the world, the...
For traders betting on the death of America’s malls, being right and making money are proving to be two very different things. Reminiscent of Michael Burry of “The Big Short” fame, these hedge funds have piled...
An EU committee has approved two new copyright rules that campaigners warn could destroy the internet as we know it. The two controversial new rules – known as Article 11 and Article 13 – introduce wide-ranging new...
While many retail companies are closing stores or closing up shop altogether, some big-box retailers are boosting business by opening new, smaller stores in strategic locations. Target in particular is finding new...
The early tale of Toys “R” Us brims with ambition, energy, and no small amount of ruthlessness, as creation stories often do. Charles Lazarus had gone from high school straight to the U.S. Army, where he served as a...
Five years from now, over one-third of skills (35%) that are considered important in today’s workforce will have changed. By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and...
Meet Sue Siegel Sue Siegel is the CEO of GE Ventures. She heads GE’s growth and innovation business comprised of GE Ventures, GE Licensing and New Business Creation (NBC). GE Ventures is the venture capital arm of...
Beth Comstock’s Eight Principles of Exponential Leadership Beth has an extraordinary mindset as a leader at GE. “These days, I think you have to be constantly thinking about what’s next, what’s new and...
The American economy that once thrived on manufacturing is in transition, and more and more it’s evolving into a digital-services economy. That means companies must adapt – or risk withering away. “Services have...
by Peter Diamandis This week, I had a chance to sit down with my brilliant friend Bill Gross, the CEO and Founder of Idealab. Bill is a startup guru… to say the least. Over the last 25 years, within Idealab, Bill has...
By Peter Diamandis If you want to create a successful, hyper-growth company you’ve got to get one thing right – hiring. To kick off my series of blogs on “Hiring, Culture, and Experimentation”, I had...
What’s your passion? Family? Gardening? Rock climbing? Now think about where your job falls in your list of passions. For many, a job is just a means to an end – it provides money for an education, an SUV, a house...
One thing is clear: millennials – those born after 1980 – are the world’s future, and they’ve already made significant contributions. Social media alone wouldn’t be what it is today without millennial...