COVID-19News

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 of the pandemic will probably have passed by the end of this month. In a few weeks’ time, many hope, things will return to…
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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…
AcademyInnovation Management

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…
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 solid and even redundant healthcare infrastructure, engaged in mass testing, and identified and isolated infected people (and…
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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…
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 position of data. Data does not work like scarce sources such as raw materials. In contrast, its value increases as its supply…
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Expert Analysis

AQ (Adaptability Quotient): The New Form of IQ or EQ In the Edge of “Future of Work”

19 October 2019
The Problem The future is faster than what we believe and hence everything changes faster than ever before. This convergence is speeding up at an exponential level which radically impacts current business environment. In an age of continuous technological advancement, the next Facebook, Uber or Alibaba that transforms their industry could be just around the corner. Research shows that the average…
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