The high pitched fervor over ‘big data’ has died down a bit, but only because companies are more focused on putting their noses to the grind stone to determine how to more effectively collect and analyze data, of all sizes, to improve their business performance.
Second only to the use of fossil fuels, deforestation is the largest driver of global climate change, but a proposal before the United Nations Conference on Climate Change could change that.
The global economy is undergoing a massive structural transformation. Bruce Greenwald, the Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management and director of the Heilbrunn Center for Graham & Dodd Investing, explains the coming death of manufacturing and the return of the local.