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POV: HR departments need to fear AI's racial biases
As artificial intelligence is integrated across the workforce, HR professionals are feeling the squeeze to adopt tools like ChatGPT to make their teams more efficient. But it can be a tricky balance. Investigations have shown that common AI tools...
AT Think Open doors to new revenue from existing clients
Cross-selling is the lifeblood of every professional services firm. It's also the bane of accounting firm partners saddled with time-intensive tasks. As with so many critical business activities, the key to changing that dynamic lies in smarter u...
The clock is ticking on ESSER funds
Superintendents in the middle of the budget-setting process need to be aware: with the ESSER Funds soon to go away, reporting, supplementing, and storytelling their pandemic-related expenses will be key for longterm student success.
Fintech needs to grow up, and quick, to survive
The fintech startup funding ecosystem has changed significantly over the past 24 months, creating an entirely new rulebook for companies chasing investor capital. Plans to scale at all costs will no longer win over investors, so fintech founders...
Simplifying value-based care is paramount to a successful transition
The US health care industry continues a predominant fee-for-service provider reimbursement model, despite trying to shift to a value-based care model for now approaching two decades. Moreover, providers continue to be consumed in a figurative ava...
Sports Memorabilia Appear to Have Arrived as Investing Class
Sotheby's, the legendary auction house, wrapped up Sports Week in April, its first dedicated foray into sports memorabilia. The piece de resistance of the auction: a signed pair of boxing trunks that Muhammed Ali wore during his...
Gen Zers Are Coming of Age. How These Risk Lovers Will Change Investing.
In just 10 short years, America's 70 million Gen Z-ers are expected to be the country's biggest age cohort. Ge...
Can Companies Under Anti-Trust Scrutiny Keep The Earnings Growth Coming?
Some of Silicon Valley's biggest names are ensnared in antitrust lawsuits, and it looks like more are on the way. Can tech companies manage to ke...
You Can Now Invest in Hot Private Tech Companies: Should You?
The launch of Destiny XYZ's new fund took Wall Street by storm when it began trading at the end of March, offering day traders and casual investors a way to buy into the prestigious...
Why AI will kill accounting generalists
Anyone in the accounting profession with a whit of human intelligence knows by now that artificial intelligence will transform the industry over the next few years. This might be the most important way: It's going to de-value commoditized "...
Biden's IRS is using scare taxes to discourage legitimate tax strategies
The IRS continues to issue press releases with cherry-picked or misleading data that cast long shadows of doubt over completely legitimate tax minimization strategies. Why would the IRS...
Reputation Repair: The Potential and Limits of Boeing's Next CEO
Boeing is replacing its current CEO amidst apparent systemic issues with its manufacturing process and a steadily declining stock price. The job of the next CEO will be to steer the badly off-cou...
Can You Tell a 'Finfluencer' From a Flimflammer?
A large number of Gen Z investors are forgoing the traditional analytical approach to markets and instead turning to guidance from a multitude of "...
Liberal arts colleges must embed career services throughout campus life
Colleges are facing a crisis of faith: high costs, the emergence of artificial intelligence, and a range of other issues threaten to make the prospect of higher education less appealing to students. Part of the solution to reestablishing trust an...
Your View: Shapiro plan would move Pa. economy into the future, protect the environment, not doom them
Gov. Josh Shapiro's ambitious plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions in Pennsylvania by cracking down on energy companies has drawn ire from the industry and some members of the Legislature, who have called it a "disaster" and a "gift" to...
Green backlash: how business leaders can make an important difference
Protests against the cost of green policies seem to be on the rise after years of steady progress in combating climate change. If public opinion starts to weaken the will of politicians to effect change, businesses will need to step up their lead...
No Noncompete Clauses? What Does That Look Like?
The FTC's decision to ban noncompete clauses created huge waves in the business community when it was announced last month.
While the react...
As Florida Condo Prices Fall, What's a Condo Seller to Do?
Condo prices in Florida have been steadily falling, fueled by an increasing rate of motivated sellers.
Certainly, high interest rates are a part of this t...
How Entrepreneurs and Wealth Managers Can Work Well Together
The increase in the number of ultra-high-net-worth individuals across the U.S. can mean only good things for wealth managers - especially as more of these newly minted millionaires and billionaires look to set up family offices to protect their...
Got AI? You'll Need It as Climate Change Worsens Flood Risk
The West Coast was drenched this winter by an astounding 51 atmospheric rivers from fall 2023 to spring 2024, according to the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes. The tally was more than twice the average.
California provid...