The Toll Outside Funding Takes

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@blogs.wsj.com | 3 years ago

Male CEOs with Daughters Treat Women Better

A study shows that the birth of a daughter has an enlightening effect on male CEOs. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 3 years ago

Billionaires Try to Shrink World's Population, Report Says

Last week’s meeting of the Great and the Good (or the Richest and Richer) was bound to draw criticism. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 4 years ago

Productivity Apps Can Make Us Less Productive (and Less Happy) – The Experts

Trying to increase your focus and productivity through apps may have the opposite result. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 4 years ago

Conceptualizing AI in Human Terms Is Misleading

AI may be approaching or surpassing human levels of performance in a number of fields, but a three month old baby still has a more practical understanding of the world around them than any AI application ever built, says CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger.  | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 4 years ago

Why I Now Believe the Glass Ceiling Is Real (2013)

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@blogs.wsj.com | 4 years ago

The internet of things is changing the world

A new class of connected devices is set shift competition between companies from individual products to increasingly comprehensive systems that encompass a number of related products and services, says CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 4 years ago

When Investing in Stocks Makes You Feel Like Throwing Up and You Do It Anyway

When it comes to investing, choosing what to ignore is critical to maintaining a long-term focus. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 4 years ago

Blockchain Marks the Next Step in the Internet’s Evolution

Blockchain technologies have the potential to address the internet's lack of identity and security standards, says CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 4 years ago

Robots Could Set the Tone for Social Interactions

Artificial intelligence will likely reshape our economy, society and personal lives in the decades to come. But attaining AI’s broad potential will require not only a continuing slew of technological innovations, but research into societal challenges, says CIO Journal Columnist I … | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Companies Try 'Nudging' Their Way to Better Ethics

Companies are looking to influence how people make decisions and are using "nudges," or choice architecture, as a way to promote ethical behavior among their employees. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Philippines Convicts Bank Manager for Money Laundering Over Hacking Heist

The former branch manager of Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. was convicted of seven counts of money laundering linked to the transfer of $81 million stolen from the Bangladeshi central bank by hackers in 2016. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Beyond Machine Learning: Capturing Cause-And-Effect Relationships

Companies using machine learning to identify that needle-in-the-haystack bit of business insight could learn from the scientists who succeeded in locating the smallest needle of them all, the Higgs bosun particle. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Pressed for Tech Talent, Hiring Managers Consider Online Credentialing

A novel approach to technology learning, called digital badges, is beginning to garner attention among hiring managers, says CIO Journal Columnist Gary J. Beach | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Retail, Transportation Among Industries Most Impacted by AI – CIO Journal

Companies in the retail, automotive, and aerospace and defense sectors are likely to be the most transformed by artificial intelligence, UBS says. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Retail, Transportation Among Industries Most Impacted by AI

Companies in the retail, automotive, and aerospace and defense sectors are likely to be the most transformed by artificial intelligence, UBS says. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Data Protection Concerns Upend M&A Plans

The European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation privacy law is turning into a stumbling block for mergers and acquisitions involving companies in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, according to a survey released Monday by business services provider Merrill Corp. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

We're Incentivizing Electric Cars All Wrong

Most programs encourage the purchase of privately owned electric vehicles but that's not where the highest ecological impact will be, says WSJ Leadership Expert James Allen. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Ford CTO Tests Quantum Computing’s Potential Power

Researchers from the automaker and NASA’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Laboratory are using a quantum computing machine built by Canadian firm D-Wave Systems Inc. that’s best suited for experiments such as quickly finding optimal driving routes to help commercial fleet owners … | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

‘Golden Visa’ Programs Open European Borders to Corruption

Wealthy individuals from around the world have a red carpet into Europe at a time when many countries in the continent are cracking down on the flow of migrants. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Walmart Requires Lettuce, Spinach Suppliers to Join Blockchain

Walmart’s supplier push comes tests of a blockchain system developed by IBM that yields a more complete view of the food system than under current federal regulations. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Women Tech Hiring Sees Minuscule Growth, Short of Hopes – CIO Journal

Technology executives say the pace needs to increase because workplace diversity correlates to better business outcomes. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Silicon Valley Myths Aside, Time Is on the Side of Aging Entrepreneurs

Founders in their early 20s have the lowest likelihood of achieve a successful exit, and a founder at age 50 is almost twice as likely to achieve a successful exit than one at age 30, columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes, citing recent economic research. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Reasons Why a Starter Home Is a Bad Investment

Math usually indicates the idea of a starter home as an “investment” is more myth than reality, says WSJ Wealth Expert Peter Lazaroff. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Pentagon Signs $885M Artificial Intelligence Contract with Booz Allen

The U.S. Department of Defense will for the first time be using large-scale AI systems that could automate mundane tasks and augment the work of military members. The contract also will go toward expanding AI-focused pilot programs, including using AI to find new approaches for t … | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Multi-Cloud Strategies Grow, Bring New IT Headaches: Survey

More companies are shifting “mission-critical” apps into multiple cloud services, even as they struggle with integration issues, costs and the security of data passing from one platform to another, Forrester reports. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Howard Marks: ‘I Doubt Computers Can Do What the Very Best Investors Do’

Billionaire investor Howard Marks expects passive investing will become even more popular in the future, but not without at least some active managers continuing to thrive. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

Financial Crisis May Have Hit ’80s Generation the Hardest

The children born into Ronald Reagan’s “Morning in America” era could be on track to become the last recession’s “lost generation,” new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis says. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 5 years ago

When Your Investing Robot Has a Mind of Its Own

Not many people would keep adding money to a brand-new investment that has lost 9% in its first four months. But a robot will. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 6 years ago

The Dark Art of Alibaba Sales Fakery

Faking e-commerce orders, or “brushing,” as it is called in China, involves paying people to pretend to be customers. Merchants use it to gain prominence on Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba’s marketplaces | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 6 years ago

‘How Long Do I Have Left?’ AI Can Help Answer That Question

In early tests, an algorithm accurately predicted remaining lifespans in 9 out of 10 cases, according to WSJ Health Expert Lloyd Minor. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 6 years ago

Digital Identity Is Broken. Here’s a Way to Fix It

The surge in identity theft and crimes using fake or stolen identity credentials and the ease with which entities can track our movements and behaviors, generally without our knowledge, are rooted in an identity mechanism ill-suited for today’s digital age. | Continue reading


@blogs.wsj.com | 6 years ago