OVERVIEW Over the past few years, the idea of what broader role a business should play in society has undergone a substantial change. Gone is the view, summed up in 1970 by Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, that the only social responsibility of companies was to increase profits. Cut to today, and there are a …
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OVERVIEW Research firm Forrester’s “Global Business Technographics Security Survey, 2016” found that 49 percent of decision-makers interviewed had experienced at least one cyber breach during the past 12 months. Of these respondents, 55 percent had suffered an internal incident involving an employee or a third-party business partner. The survey also ranked top external cyber attack …
A couple of computer scientists are getting ready to take the DNA testing technique that made Ancestry.com family trees possible to a whole new level, which may give doctors a powerful new tool against hereditary diseases such as breast cancer, diabetes and autism.
A College of Medicine researcher has earned a $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to understand how Lyme disease is able to escape the body’s immune system.
OVERVIEW Centenarians – those individuals who reach 100 years of age or more – used to make headlines. Living to 100 years used to be a somewhat rare occurrence, but recent research suggests the world’s centenarian population is likely to accelerate. Such changing demographic patterns are significantly altering how governments and the private sector forecast …
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Overview Each year, researchers at Colorado State University predict Atlantic hurricane season activity. Their forecast taps 60 years of historical data on sea surface temperatures, wind-shear levels, ENSO phase and other factors. Their initial forecast for last year’s hurricane season predicted a slightly below average season, but subsequent forecasts suggested increasing odds of more storms. …
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OVERVIEW Rising health care costs have been on the minds of executives in recent years. However, many executives – especially in the United States – have been overlooking some increasingly important elements of a company’s cost and benefits equation: paid leave and its evil twin, absenteeism. “The rest of the world is ahead of the …
OVERVIEW Technological revolutions never happen in isolation, and they are only successful if they are adopted by consumers and spark innovation by other organizations. Consider the Global Positioning System (GPS). Launched by the U.S. Department of Defense, GPS started as a military navigation technology, but, once it found its way into civilian use, the way …
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Overview This month marks the one-year anniversary of the WannaCry ransomware attacks, which Wired called the “worst digital disaster to strike the internet in years.” By exploiting an operating system vulnerability, the ransomware corrupted data on some 200,000 computers across 150 countries, then demanded payment for restored access. The cost of damages has been estimated …
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Overview Health care: It’s the cost that businesses have had the hardest time trying to control. While inflation has remained steady, total global spending on health care is expected to reach $8.7 trillion by 2020, and longer-term trends suggest that health care costs will continue to rise dramatically. What makes containing health care costs so …
