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Month: April 2013
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Where will good jobs come from in our emerging digital economy? This is a really important question given the dramatic changes taking place in the economy, mostly driven by the continuing advances in technology and the forces of globalization. Unfortunately, we don’t have very good answers. But, just about every study on the subject points to…
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Storytelling has played a central role in human communications since times immemorial. Storytelling predates writing. Oral narratives were used by many ancient cultures as a way of passing along their traditions, beliefs and learning from generation to generation. Over the centuries, the nature of storytelling has significantly evolved with the advent of writing and the…
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Data Science is emerging as a hot new profession and academic discipline. Data Scientist: the Sexiest Job of the 21st Century is the title of a recent Harvard Business Review article. Its authors, Tom Davenport and D. J. Patil, define data scientist as “a high-ranking professional with the training and curiosity to make discoveries in…
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Gross domestic product (GDP) is the basic measure of a country’s overall economic output based on the market value of all the goods and services the country produces. Most measures of economic performance used by government officials to inform their policies and decisions are based on GDP figures. But, many concerns have been raised about…
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“Explanations for our current political volatility abound: toxic partisanship, the ever more fragmented and strident news media, high unemployment, economic upheaval and the clamorous upwelling of inchoate populist angst,” wrote Stanford University historian David Kennedy in an excellent essay in the New York Times following the 2010 elections. “But the political instability of our own…