Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFAThe Future of Community BankingLast week I joined the Massachusetts Bankers Association to discuss the future of community banking and the future of finance.May 3, 2022May 3, 2022
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFA3 Ways NFTs Can Produce Offline Engagement (for Skeptical Executives Who Operate Physical…By now you are probably familiar with non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the many ways in which creators are using them to generate value…Mar 13, 2022Mar 13, 2022
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFAThe State of Best Buy 4Q FY18Yesterday Best Buy reported 4Q FY18 results well above Street estimates. Comparable store sales in the quarter were up 9% (domestic) and…Mar 2, 2018Mar 2, 2018
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFACan Technology Make Us Better Off While Also Taking Our Jobs?Earlier this week Axios published the results from a recent Axios-SurveyMonkey poll. The results reveal an interesting dichotomy. There…Mar 2, 2018Mar 2, 2018
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFAA Simple Model of Smart Speaker Adoption and SalesThe market for smart speakers, also commonly referred to as voice-enabled smart speakers and virtual personal assistant (VPA)-enabled…Jan 8, 2018Jan 8, 2018
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFAA Global Cold War and the Fear Mongering AIEarlier this week Eurasia Group published their Top Risks for 2018 which includes the risk of a global tech cold war. They write that…Jan 5, 2018Jan 5, 2018
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFASocial Implications of AI: The Case of Ubers and AmbulancesArtificial intelligence (AI) will reduce use of centralized services and give further rise to decentralized, distributed services. The…Jan 2, 2018Jan 2, 2018
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFATrends From Black Friday, CyberMonday and the Reshaping of RetailThe dust has settled. The results tallied. Black Friday, CyberMonday, and the entire weekend these two days bookend proved to be a strong…Nov 30, 2017Nov 30, 2017
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFAInfluencers Are Quietly Taking Over Retail CircularsIt all started innocently enough, with seemingly normal individuals blogging about the less glamorous parts of their daily lives. In those…Oct 16, 2017Oct 16, 2017
Shawn DuBravac, Ph.D, CFAAmazon’s Football Experiment is about DataAmazon’s foray into streaming live sporting events is about digital data. It was never about audience size, new activations, or subscriber…Oct 6, 20171Oct 6, 20171