Technology

The Internet Needs a Diet.

30 April 2020
Let’s be more careful what we’re feeding it. Today is digital clean up day and the 50th anniversary of Earth day. Let’s take the opportunity to reflect on our digital and physical footprints and where our relationship with the digital world is really headed. This article puts together some of my thoughts on where we are today and why we all need to zoom out and reset our ways in the days…
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Bill Gates On How to Fight Future Pandemics

27 April 2020
Apr 23rd 2020 BY BILL GATES When historians write the book on the covid-19 pandemic, what we’ve lived through so far will probably take up only the first third or so. The bulk of the story will be what happens next. In most of Europe, East Asia and North America the peak…
AcademyTechnology

Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse: Summary

4 April 2020
 This is my third article in a series of four paragraph summaries of academic business papers. Click here for the first & here for the second. Cyberspace and the Law of the Horse is a paper by Frank H. Easterbrook of the University of Chicago. It…
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The Ambidextrous Organization: Summary

27 March 2020
 This is my first article in what I hope will become a series: four paragraph summaries of academic papers. The Ambidextrous Organization is an HBR paper by Charles A. O’Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman. It describes the conflict organizations face between capitalizing on traditional sources of revenue, and exploring opportunities for new, radical innovation. Shifting…
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COVID-19Privacy

Will Privacy Be One Of The Victims Of COVID-19? (CEPS)

26 March 2020
 As the COVID-19 outbreak rages across the world, governments have started observing the effectiveness of different approaches to ‘flatten the curve’ or contain the spread of the virus. So far, the most effective governments seem to be those that have invested in…
COVID-19Technology

The Role of Technology to Prevent Outbreaks

18 March 2020
As stated in the World Health Organization’s Managing Epidemics: Key Facts About Major Deadly Diseases, 2018, the past twenty years have been a period of deadly epidemics. In 2003, the SARS coronavirus, which no one had heard before, infected more than eight thousand people, and the H1N1 influenza outbreak that began in 2009 was the first pandemic of this century. The MERS coronavirus, which…
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DataTechnology

Data Economy

2 March 2020
This week I would like to discuss network effects  and the value of data. The book value of Facebook is around $ 100 billion. But its market cap is over $ 600 billion. The difference is due to our data that we hand over for free. Let’s first describe the economic…
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9 Things Finishing Ironman 70.3 Triathlon Taught me about Life & Entrepreneurship

6 November 2019
I have just raced at Ironman 70.3 Triathlon in Antalya. Water temperature was great; the humidity was ok; except for the extreme wind during cycling, everything went well, and I managed to complete the race. During the Ironman training period and at the race itself, I accumulated some stuff that Ironman triathlon teaches you about life&entrepreneurship. I am surprised how much these two…
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