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What Content Creators Can Learn About Sound Design From Modern Hollywood Productions
Sound design is a top component of breakout Hollywood productions - note the original "Star Wars" and the recent "Top Gun: Maverick." The same should apply to video content creators - everyone from YouTubers to aspiring movie director...
Handling Credit Card Debt In An Age of Overspending
Overspending on credit cards is weighing on the American consumer as the cost of living continues to rise, making it a good time to consider personal strategies to keep those balances under control.
The Federal Reserve Bank of New Yor...
Alert fatigue pushes security analysts to the limit
Alert fatigue is a significant challenge for security officials in governments and organizations worldwide. Where the principal challenge in safeguarding operations and personnel used to be collecting sufficient actionable intelligence and data,...
Solving The Current Commercial Real Estate Crisis Will Take Private-Public Partnerships
The dark clouds over the commercial real estate market - and office buildings in particular - continue to gather as regional and community banks cut their loan exposure to the sector. Regional and community banks continue to dump commercial r...
How to Build a Company That Excels at Both Leading and Coaching - and Why It's Important
Companies, in an effort to be more efficient, are thinking twice about how many middle managers they need. And that makes it more important than ever to move from managing people to leading and coaching so they can do their jobs without the kind...
GENERATIVE AI-HOW MARKETERS CAN PROTOTYPE, EXPERIMENT AND LEARN QUICKLY AND CHEAPLY
Brands and agencies are asking what generative AI means for them. What can be automated? How can we create value? But as with any shiny new object, companies should proceed with caution.
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What If the Right Person for the Role Is a Bot? Accountability in the AI Age Takes Center Stage
Any company naturally aims to fill each role with the right person. But if AI and automation eventually replace more than a quarter of all current jobs, as one survey suggests, might the right "person" be a bot? And if that's the case, how...
Why Boards Are Missing The Mark On Succession
As the final season of the hit HBO show "Succession" drew to its recent close, the world of high-stakes corporate leadership changes became the obsession of millions. In reality, most succession stories involve boards larger than TV's Roy f...
Self Storage Is Riding High: Is This the Beginning, or the End?
The self-storage industry is booming, but is it sustainable? Our industry - I run a self-storage company - has been showing up in the financial press's headlines lately as investors and operators grow with Americans' desires to store their poss...
Invest Like the Rich: Are Direct Investments Right for You?
The wealthy have access to investments unavailable to the rest of us. But at least one type - direct investments - is now within reach.
Direct investments enable investors to take stakes in non-public companies whose shares don'...
Big Money Is Chasing Sports Collectibles: Investing Opportunity or Market Top?
When approaching the sports collectibles market as a potential investment strategy, it is imperative to enter with eyes wide open and invest only what yo...
Injecting Realism Into Your AI Threat Assessments
Cascading artificial intelligence advancements present an array of security traps for unsuspecting companies. The consequences of a successful attack are likely to be much more severe than an old-style phishing or hacking attack.
Gone...
Generative AI Has Changed the Calculus Around Corporate Risk Management
Generative artificial intelligence has been among the most impressive breakthroughs in years. But for corporate security chiefs, it's causing angst.
That's because for all its genius, generative AI - which can create human-leve...
Adam Weinberg: Here's some essential advice for freshmen from a university president
Members of America's college Class of 2027 will soon begin four critical years of their lives. I'm a university president who's about to preside over my 11th incoming class, and there are a few things I think every first-year student should...
Micro-Credentials Could Begin To Resolve the Nursing Shortage in as Little as One Month
We can begin to solve America's nursing shortage in very short order with innovative educational and apprenticeship approaches that let young healthcare workers move up the skill ladder more quickly.
Hospitals across the country are...
A Balance Transfer Can Be A Useful Tool For Getting Out Of Debt
A promotional rate on a credit card is appealing to anyone. But if you're trying to pay off debt, benefiting from no interest for 12 to 18 months can give you time to get your financial house in order.
Credit card debt is at an all-...
A Simple Idea To Ease The Housing Affordability Crisis
Here's a big idea to address America's worsening housing affordability crisis: Let more Americans own their home without buying the land underneath it.
If that sounds crazy, it shouldn't. It's been a widely used and successfu...
Higher Ed Alert: Companies Looking for This One Thing
It is higher education's responsibility to ensure their students are ready to be productive in the work environment.
Companies that want to develop talent look for a range of hard and soft skills in prospective employees. But thereâ...
Has the Banking Crisis Helped Banks In Their Battle With Fintech?
One unexpected outcome of the recent set of U.S. bank runs is that it may help the banking industry in its fierce battle with upstart fintech competitors.
On the surface, the brick-and-mortar banking business has seldom looked more vu...