How to soften the bullwhip effect
"People are not very good at keeping track of the supply line … The on-hand inventory plays an outsize role in conditioning their decisions.”
"People are not very good at keeping track of the supply line … The on-hand inventory plays an outsize role in conditioning their decisions.”
En-ROADS ... is interactive, with a simple interface that allows each user to explore most of the variables that are thought to affect climate.
"In Europe they chose to take the route of furloughing people, and they were still connected and had a job to come back to."
"Apple's decision to lower the tariff to 15% for smaller developers is a recognition it probably has charged too much ... "
Christian Catalini and Antoinette Schoar ... who have done extensive studies of the sector say the "digital gold" argument is overblown.
"Despite having been around for 14 years and the hype it has ratcheted up, it's still the case that it's a very concentrated ecosystem."
“We have found that the number and magnitude of breaches has been increasing. So the trend is clearly in the wrong direction.”
Zeynep Ton says that organizations need to start offering better jobs. The 21st century requires a new approach.
According to a new working paper by Assistant Prof. Lawrence D.W. Schmidt "income risk" is primarily a problem for college-educated people.
Neil Thompson captured the top spot with a thoughtful feature article about the computational and energy costs of training deep learning systems.