Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images In the investment world, taking risks during volatile periods can result in a windfall. During his 60 years at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett delivered compounded annual returns of nearly 20% — double what the S&P 500 achieved — guided by the rule “Be fearful when others…
Patrick George/Ikon Images In conversations with executives, I’ve noticed a common pattern: Many are aware of agentic AI coding assistants like Claude Code but assume that these tools are relevant only to software developers. This assumption, while understandable, is rapidly being proved wrong. It turns out that the features that make AI coding tools useful…
Dean Rohrer/theispot.com Across industries, companies are investing heavily in radical innovations, such as new software layers for traditional hardware, AI-powered industrial tools, and smart services that promise to transform how customers create value. Yet, when these offerings reach the market, sales pipelines often stall. Salesforce, for example, struggled with the early commercialization of a radical…
Stephan Schmitz/theispot.com The Research The authors studied 13 multinational companies with revenues of $10 billion to $150 billion that are based in the U.S., Germany, Mexico, or the Netherlands. The companies represent a range of sectors, including agricultural machinery, cosmetics, semiconductors, computing hardware, auto parts, auto assembly, power generation, and health care delivery. Through qualitative…
One of the main drivers of the current excitement around artificial intelligence is its uncanny ability to act almost human. Unlike the stiff chatbots of the past, recent models can more effectively respond to a user’s emotions with nuance and understanding. The effect is convincing enough that some people attribute complex human abilities such as…
Kirsten Ulve/theispot.com As the phrase “brain rot” has exploded in usage over the last couple of years, evolving from a humorous jab at wasting time online into a genuine descriptor for the mental fatigue brought on by endless scrolling, many have resorted to a solution that is surprisingly retro. From 2021 to 2024, feature phone…
Conflicts crop up all the time in the workplace, regardless of the job or industry. So it’s critical for business leaders and workers at all levels to know how to respond when conflicts occur, either within or between organizations. Below, faculty at the Kellogg School offer strategies for handling different types of work conflict, based…
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images In crimes such as robberies or kidnappings, both the criminals and victims must directly interact in person, so it is obvious that they must both be in the same country for the crime to be committed. Local and/or federal authorities address such crimes. But cybercrimes involving data theft and…
Valentine’s Day is a day of love. But for those who sell roses, it’s probably a day full of something else. “Probably a lot of stress, right? This is the chance to make money for everybody that’s concerned, right? This is the opportunity where you can clean up for the year,” says Martin Lariviere, a…
Brian Stauffer/theispot.com When technology journalist Cory Doctorow coined a new term to describe how the consumer experience on platforms such as Amazon, Facebook, and Google has degraded over time, his observations resonated so widely that the American Dialect Society named enshittification its word of the year in 2023. Doctorow argued that platform operators follow a…