January 17, 2024
Digital Innovation, Global Tensions Define Davos, Industrial Economy
The World Economic Forum’s annual Davos meeting is taking place against a complex backdrop. The geopolitical and geoeconomics complications being discussed by world leaders are far from foreign concepts to the executives of...
January 11, 2024
Buyer-Supplier Relationships Are Being Reshaped in a Crucible of Convenience
Change can happen slowly, and then suddenly all at once. And the B2B payments space is increasingly moving away from the incremental drip of change toward the full-on sprint of...
January 08, 2024
The Eight Pivotal Strategies for Payments and the Digital Economy...
One: Companies monetize certainty as businesses and consumers prize predictability. Two: Shopping shifts from buying to editing as replenishment models change retail dynamics. Three: GenAI becomes a feature, and everything...
January 03, 2024
Platform Ignition Not Going Well? Call in the Volcanos
In early 2010, as winter turned to spring in Iceland, one of the many volcanos, Eyjafjallajökull, erupted. Beginning in mid-April, the volcano ejected about 250 million cubic meters of ash....
December 22, 2023
EU Nixes Provisional Agreement on Reclassification of Gig Workers
European Union (EU) member states have rejected a provisional deal aimed at reclassifying millions of gig workers as employees. Officials from Spain, the current holder of the EU’s rotating presidency,...
December 19, 2023
If it’s Too Good to Be True, it Probably isn’t...
Artificial intelligence (“AI”) is all the rage these days. As machines become increasingly able to teach themselves, all manner of “progress” seems possible, regardless of the field of human endeavor....
December 15, 2023
Expelling the Economists from EU Merger Control
In this essay I discuss the claims and evidence in a recent paper, which has received significant attention in the media and the policy debate. The paper finds that “hired...
November 13, 2023
Report: Two-Thirds of Retailers Have Excess Inventory as Holidays Approach
American retailers could be saddled with a glut of inventory for the holiday shopping season. With that in mind, chains could see their profit margins threatened at this crucial moment,...
November 01, 2023
St. John’s Coach Rick Pitino Courts Wall Street for Financial...
St. John’s coach has reportedly turned to a unique source to revive his basketball program. Goldman Sachs. As Bloomberg News reported Wednesday (Nov. 1), Rick Pitino has hired a former executive from the Wall...