Can AI Make Finance Fairer?
AI is reshaping how financial institutions assess risk, extend credit and design products for underserved populations worldwide. For decades, financial inclusion has been framed as a policy challenge. Governments mostly expanded public banking. Regulators nudged lenders to serve rural and low-income customers. Microfinance institutions filled some gaps. Yet, billions of people still operate outside formal […]
Apple Bets Against the AI’s ‘Illusion of Thinking’
In the summer of this year, four researchers from Apple, published a paper titled. “The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity.” The findings of the study ran rather contrary to the hype around AI’s ‘reasoning model’. The researchers found that “frontier LRMs face a […]
AI, Strategy and the New Competitive Game
AI and machine learning are transforming how firms compete, scale advantages, defend market power and redesign business models across industries. Strategy has always been shaped by technology, but artificial intelligence and machine learning represent a deeper shift. Unlike earlier digital tools, AI systems learn, adapt and improve with use. That quality alone changes the logic […]
A Cheat-Sheet for Prompt Engineering for Time Series
This is an explainer on how to talk to an AI so it can make better predictions about numbers that change over time, like daily sales or website visits. Big idea Treat the AI like a smart but inexperienced intern: it knows a lot of facts, but nothing about your specific business or calendar unless […]
The New Rules of Winning in the Attention Economy
Short-form content habits and creator-driven influence are rewriting how consumers decide and engage. Brands must adapt to shrinking attention, rising fatigue and shifting trust. The digital world once promised more freedom, more choice and more access. Instead, it delivered an overloaded marketplace where brands fight for attention measured not in minutes but in seconds. What […]
The Blueprint for Large Project Execution
Teams today rely on a blend of agile, lean, scrum, waterfall and Kanban to manage uncertainty and deliver transformation outcomes with greater reliability. Complex transformation programmes rarely survive on a single project management philosophy. Fixed plans struggle to account for fast shifts in demand, yet purely iterative models often lose structure when teams scale. Modern […]
Rethinking ‘Search’ Skills in a World of LLMs & Agentic Workflows
Search is being rebuilt right now, and for data science and management students, that means rethinking what “search skills” look like in a world where LLMs, AI assistants, and agentic workflows turn results pages into personalized recommendation layers across apps, feeds, and devices. Global ad spend is set to top $1.04 trillion in 2026, with […]
Optimizing Meeting-Free Days for Productivity
Many organizations adopt no-meeting days to combat excessive meetings, which consume over 85% of knowledge workers’ time and harm well-being, but the optimal weekly balance is three such days. A 2022 MIT Sloan study by Benjamin Laker, Vijay Pereira, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik surveyed 76 global companies and found that “when meetings were reduced […]
Build Ecosystems Not Just Products
A clear look at how platforms convert data into value, strengthen ecosystems and build network effects that raise competitiveness and reshape modern markets. The digital economy has created a new class of firms that scale faster, learn faster and compete in ways older business models cannot easily match. Their advantage does not come from owning […]
What AI-Native Leadership Means for Agentic Management
AI-native leadership demands a new management logic, where leaders design organizations that think, learn and act with autonomous AI systems. Most organizations know how to adopt technology, but very few know how to redesign themselves around it. AI-native leadership signals a shift in how firms think about talent, structure and learning. Leaders today must craft […]