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Recommendation If you want to thrive in today’s competitive marketplace, you’ll need to future-proof your customer experience, according to an analysis from Boston Consulting Group. Gain actionable insights into the characteristics that companies leading in customer experience share, while learning how creating more responsive, individualized, seamless experiences drives value. Winning customer-centric brands of tomorrow will …

Recommendation The United States faces an uncertain economic future – and perhaps grueling stagflation – as it emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a panel of experts. Top economic commentators Laurence D. Fink, Neel Kashkari, Melissa S. Kearney, Lawrence H. Summers and Greg Ip discuss America’s challenges in this wide-ranging video conversation that covers …

Recommendation Shifting alliances in a world that has seen a resurgent China, a bellicose Russia and an attenuated America spell trouble, writes foreign policy expert Richard Haass in this sobering assessment. At a time in which the West no longer predominates and power is dispersed among a greater number of states, America needs to strengthen …

Recommendation The reproducibility crisis has plagued many fields of biomedical research. Automating lab work, by outsourcing experiments to “cloud labs” full of programmable machines, can solve this problem. These labs are also more efficient, and allow remote and underserved scientists access to state-of-the-art equipment. Such labs may well be where scientific breakthroughs are made in …

Recommendation A significant new study shows that the human brain expands in childhood, and shrinks as people age, reports Max Kozlov in Nature. Although considered a work in progress, the collection of more than 120,000 MRI scans reveals remarkable clarity in important aspects of human brain structure. Issues of expense and access have previously prevented …

Inequality should be measured in terms of the time it takes for us to earn the money to buy the things we need. And everyone is getting wealthier. Recommendation The metric of the price of time – the ratio of an item’s price to income generated in an hour – lends itself more readily to …

Recommendation Lithium-ion batteries are so integral to modern life, there’s a good chance you have one within arm’s reach right now. And they’re becoming even more important as people seek to reduce climate threats by electrifying their energy system. The only problem is that both production and disposal harm those who mine the raw materials …

Recommendation Globalization is breaking down and a new world order is forming, says economist Noah Smith in this thought-provoking essay. He posits that China and America once benefited from a mutually advantageous trade relationship: The former grew its economy while the latter profited from technology and expanded production. Yet China now recognizes that its openness …

Recommendation How can you tell when it’s time for a job change and where to go next? In this episode of the Goal Digger podcast, host Jenna Kutcher and career coach Ashley Stahl discuss the role of intuition in career pivots. It’s a subject Stahl would know: She made the leap from counterterrorism professional to …

Recommendation As artificial intelligence evolves, its ability to work alongside humans solving complex problems in fields such as medicine, finance and governance becomes increasingly critical. Examples include OpenAI’s GPT-3 language generator, image creation platform DALL-E, and code generator Copilot. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that within a few years, AI will fuel an explosion of …