A new era of communication — the power and vulnerability of your thoughts

8 PRINCIPLES TO HELP YOU LAND YOUR MBA PRODUCT MANAGEMENT OFFER: ACING THE INTERVIEWS

Batman vs. Pandemic

There’s a scene in “The Dark Knight” when Batman instructs Lucius Fox to use a new tool to locate the Joker. Our villain has…

The Increasingly Vulnerable Elderly in a Digital World

I Own a Part of the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer

The Technological Revelation

By Olivia Mell

As the virus gets worse day after day, the curve does not get any flatter despite (some of) our best efforts, the death toll rises, and it feels like the entire world order is in free-fall, it is understandable why many are calling the age of COVID-19…

Is the Planet Fighting Back?

Amidst the madness, heartbreak, and outpouring of data and statistics about the toll COVID-19 has had on…

Information May Want To Be Free, But Do We Deserve It?

How should we think about the economics of information in a world of fake news, clickbait, and opportunistic conspiracy theorists?

Are the glory days of startups behind us?

Over the last decade, Crunchbase estimates that over $1.5 trillion was invested in…

Global Views on Media and Surveillance in the Age of Corona

In January, I had the pleasure of traveling throughout Southeast Asia with a group of Columbia Business School students. The trip had an educational bend, introducing us to companies and business leaders in Singapore and Jakarta, with a final vacation-only pit stop…

How COVID-19 change your perception on Tech Giants

Technology and Democracy

When social network services emerged, like Twitter and Facebook, many people expected that those would improve democracy all around the world. Those new services seemed to provide super-efficient exchanges of information. Everyone freely and equally posted their opinion. In this new…

What Will “A Day at the Office” Look Like After COVID-19?

As a student currently attending Zoom business school, I have not had to adjust my working life to a world in which leaving one’s house for non-essential reasons is frowned upon. I haven’t had to shift all of my in-person meetings to virtual ones, nor have I had to…

Coronavirus — Exacerbating the digital divide

The Coronavirus has uncovered a nasty truth prevalent in our societies and economies. The internet has played a pivotal role in dealing with the current crisis- right from disseminating information, enabling social distancing and keeping the economy…

The Cookie Monster: Are you OK with who is tracking you online?

Fighting COVID-19 from your personal computer: the power of distributed computing

This post explains how distributed computing is being used by some organizations (e.g., Folding@Home) to investigate…