On May 15, 2017, Amazon.com celebrated the 20th anniversary of its initial public offering (IPO). The company’s first twenty years was a period of remarkable growth but with very little to show in terms of accounting earnings. This reflected Amazon’s strategy of investing in expansion and research a...
Robert C. Merton shares his views on Silicon Valley Bank, interest-rate risk, and the need for an accurate assessment of financial policy.
At food service company Sysco, generative artificial intelligence is another tool that optimizes sales, processes, and supply chains.
In July of 2020, the National Hockey League (NHL) and the NHL Players’ Association (NHLPA) were negotiating an agreement on a return-to-play plan for the 2019-20 season interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. At the same time, the two parties were negotiating an agreement to extend the league’s collec...
Students are placed in the position of Pedro Russell, a partner at GSM Partners, during the due diligence phase of the acquisition process for MedPro Institute, a vocational training school in the medical field. While reviewing the school’s financial data, Russell discovered that the school relied a...
Some automation displaces workers and lowers wages. A new report argues that taxing the right technologies could help remedy this.
Throughout 2017 and into 2018, Tesla was burning through cash as the company sought to ramp up production of its Model 3 all-electric vehicle (EV). Investors were questioning whether Tesla would need to raise additional capital. While the company had been successful in the past at issuing both equit...
A new book shows that successful firms are using artificial intelligence to complement human workers, not replace them.
Spring 2022 research updates
The researchers found that the social perceptiveness—or social intelligence—of group members is a significant predictor of group intelligence, both for face-to-face groups and online groups.
