If we’re going to live on Mars we’ll need a way to grow food in its arid dirt. Researchers think they know a way.
A new crop of biotech startups are working on an alternative to alternative protein.
New research points to some surprising answers.
The so-called war for talent is still raging. But in that fight, employers continue to rely on the same hiring and retention strategies they’ve been using for decades. Why? Because they’ve been so focused on challenges such as poaching by industry rivals, competing in tight labor markets, and responding to relentless cost-cutting pressures that they haven’t addressed a more fundamental problem: the widespread failure to provide sustainable work experiences. To stick around and give their best, people need meaningful work, managers and colleagues who value and trust them, and opportunities to advance in their careers, the authors say. By supporting employees in their individual quests for progress while also meeting the organization’s needs, managers can create employee experiences that are mutually beneficial and sustaining.
The five dimensions to consider—and how AI can help
More than 80% of respondents in a BCG survey of 5,000 global consumers say they want and expect personalized experiences. But two-thirds have experienced personalization that is inappropriate, inaccurate, or invasive. That’s because most companies lack a clear guidepost for what great personalization should look like.
Authors Mark Abraham and David C. Edelman remedy that in this article, which is adapted from Personalized: Customer Strategy in the Age of AI (Harvard Business Review Press, 2024). Drawing on decades of work consulting on the personalization efforts of hundreds of large companies, they have built the defining metric to quantify personalization maturity: the Personalization Index. It is a single score from 0 to 100 that measures how well companies deliver on the five promises they implicitly make to customers when they personalize an interaction.
The authors argue that personalization will be the most exciting and most profitable outcome of the emerging AI boom. They describe how companies can use AI to create and continually refine personalized experiences at scale—empowering customers to get what they want faster, cheaper, or more easily. And they show readers how to assess their own business’s index score.
Humanities Magazine (October 20, 2024): The Fall 2024 Issue features…
A major exhibition takes us inside the private, busy lives of women by Angelica Aboulhosn
A new digital project looks at the forgotten history of America’s submerged communities by Anna Webb
THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE (October 19, 2024): The latest issue features Undocumented labor quietly props up much of the American economy — nowhere more than on dairy farms. What would a crackdown mean for milk?
Elon Musk and a group of Silicon Valley allies have built a shadow campaign to put Donald Trump back in office.
A decade and a quarter of a billion dollars later, students and faculty are more frustrated than ever.
By Nicholas Confessore
BARRON’S MAGAZINE (October 19, 2024): The latest issue features ‘The Millennial Divide’….
Millennials might be doing better than their predecessors—but they also might be the most economically divided generation that America has ever seen.
Voters will soon decide if they want Trump or Harris to handle the immigration crisis. The consequences for corporate America and the economy run deep.
With utilities, pipelines, and REITs fully priced and at times dividend-light, yield-hungry investors should consider alternatives like Pfizer and Chevron.
Voters will soon decide if they want Trump or Harris to handle the immigration crisis. The consequences for corporate America and the economy run deep.Long read
With utilities, pipelines, and REITs fully priced and at times dividend-light, yield-hungry investors should consider alternatives like Pfizer and Chevron.Long read
The bull market may be nearing a peak after a stellar two-year run. Rebalancing into these areas could help you avoid losses.
The New Republic (October 18, 2024): The latest issue features ‘America is So Ready for Kamala Harris’ – How she rose to the occasion…
This is no ordinary campaign, but it is exactly the campaign we needed at this extraordinary historic juncture.
Donald Trump has pledged to remove all undocumented immigrants from the U.S.—but such a policy could have a slew of unintended consequences.
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Young asteroid families seed more than 70% of extraterrestrial rocks found on the planet
New insights on cells behind long-lived antibody production could spur better vaccines
Cell-based drug factories could produce therapies on demand inside patients
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Young children in the playground behave like molecules in a gas, but kids undergo a phase change in a more structured setting.
A royal burial site linked to the fearsome Scythian equestrian culture contains evidence of ‘spectral riders’ described in Classical account.
Global survey finds human faecal contamination in at least one sample from all 18 cities tested.
The easy synchronization suggests that an individual jelly does not distinguish its tissue
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