Posts by Shomit Ghose
Green Energy’s Demand Side: Lessons from the Starbucks App?
Envy with Green Even before the US Senate’s historic passage of 2022’s $430 billion climate bill, climate tech start-ups were on an envious tear, raising well over $30 billion in…
Read MoreString Theory and The Five Dimensions of Data Ethics
Business’ “Theory of Everything”? Physicists have long sought a Theory of Everything, a single theoretical framework that explains and ties together the physical world at every scale, from the sub-atomic…
Read MoreBehavioral Economics: The Entrepreneur’s Best Friend?
Economics’ Not-So-Hidden Hand Behavioral economics has been much in the public eye this century, whether it was Daniel Kahneman’s 2002 Nobel Prize in economics, Robert Shiller’s in 2013, Richard Thaler’s…
Read MoreHigher Education and the Zoombie Apocalypse
Virtualization Comes for Higher Ed Murder hornets. The Great Toilet Paper Panic. And New York Magazine’s thought-provoking interview with NYU’s Scott Galloway on the coming disruption to higher education. All…
Read MoreCrisis as Catalyst: The COVID-19 Impact on Innovation
Quarantine Angst What does the jet engine have in common with penicillin, the world’s first antibiotic? Both, as it turns out, were born in 1928, but it took the crisis…
Read MoreCorporate Innovation: Five Lessons from Star Wars
By Shomit Ghose | March 31, 2020 Star Wars: mind-candy entertainment or a set of essential teachings for business leaders? Happily, it’s both. The sci-fi series is a great illustration of the entrepreneurial…
Read MoreThe 7 Habits of Highly Effective AI
Adapt or Die Name a company anywhere in the world – just one! – that won’t be disrupted by Amazon or Google. These two companies, along with their fellow votaries…
Read MoreHealthcare’s Most Impactful AI? The “Non-contact” Kind
The World Health Organization reports that 45% of member states have less than one physician per 1,000 population. With the Kaiser Family Foundation reporting 27 million Americans lacking health coverage in…
Read MoreWhat We Need Now: Ethical AI
By Shomit Ghose | June 5, 2019 Iron Man vs Terminator Revisited In the landscape of artificial intelligence, we still find ourselves balanced precariously between the twin outcomes of Iron Man and Terminator. …
Read MoreArtificial Intelligence and the Rumsfeld Test
“But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know.” – United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, February 12, 2002 An artificial intelligence strategy is…
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