Black Swan

Tried buying a cheap bike at Walmart, lately? There are scant choices these days. This is one of the myriad of consequences, both intended and unintended, to our global health response to COVID-19 beyond the pandemic itself that should keep academicians busy for the next 20 years. Over the last several…

Managing Director at a1qa, a pure-play QA and software testing company. Getty Right now, there are no more chances for procrastination. Tech leaders must respond to global challenges of the current climate by taking actions to prepare for their businesses' resilience. Some are rethinking digital transformation strategies. Some are putting business…

Getty Is the market driving you crazy? Be careful. That might just be what it wants. And then it’s got you. In an ideal world, everyone acts in their best interest, has all the relevant information at their fingertips and makes decisions in a well thought out logical manner. This…

Former Disney CEO Bob Iger was preparing to give the most important speech of his career. In just a few days it would be the opening night of Shanghai Disneyland. Disney had invested $6 billion to build it over 18 years. According to Iger in his best-selling book The Ride…

Don't let short-term market trends interfere with a sound investing strategy. As Americans have spent weeks staying put at home to slow the spread of COVID-19, the stock market has gone on a wild ride, first crashing and then rallying even as unemployment reached record highs.  With so much volatility…

Sales and marketing both play vital roles in business growth and brand image. With the rise of the next black swan events, businesses are striving to adapt in the face of changing circumstances and need to rethink their strategy for getting all parts of the organization aligned. In theory, sales…

In the midst of a true crisis in the food business (dumped milk, broken eggs, ploughed back crops, meat factory shutdowns) it is hard to find examples of food suppliers whose entire focus is not on survival. Restaurants worldwide are questioning if they will have a business when we emerge…

We may benefit from sharing data, but we don’t want to lose control of it. We may benefit by ... collaborating, but we want to protect our interests. Pioneers are turning to blockchains to advance our capability to simultaneously share and protect. Margarida CSilva, Unsplash In our jet age, a…

For years, I have been warning that during the age of permanent stimulus (which began in earnest with the Federal Reserve’s reaction to the dotcom crash of 2000), each successive economic contraction would have to be met with ever larger, increasingly ineffective, doses of monetary and fiscal stimulus to keep…

WILTON, CT - MARCH 21: Protesters stand in front of the Financial Products Headquarters of American ... International Group Inc. (A.I.G.) following a bus tour to the homes of some of the executives who were recipients of a bonus from A.I.G. on March 21, 2009 in Wilton, Connecticut. A bus…