The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by as much as 330 points after the open. President Trump appears to have softened his stance on Covid-19 relief less than 24 hours after instructing representatives to cease negotiations with the Democrats until after the election. The president says he supports sending direct payments to Americans, extending the…
October 07, 2020 OpenAI stunned the world with the release of Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3), the world’s most impressive language-generating AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman joins Azeem Azhar to reflect on the huge attention generated by GPT-3 and what it heralds for the future research and development toward the creation of a true artificial general intelligence…
2K Games released a new NBA 2K21 PS5 gameplay reveal trailer yesterday. Impressive, the sizzle reel hints at a major visual overhaul for the next-gen version of the yearly basketball franchise. The current-gen version received mixed reviews at launch. A brand new PS5 gameplay reveal for NBA 2K21 released yesterday delivers yet another compelling peek…
Vasilina Popova/Getty Images In these difficult times, we’ve made a number of our coronavirus articles free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. Covid-19 has supercharged all things virtual, propelling industries like retail well into the future. According to IBM’s 2020 U.S.…
Mohamed Salah is undoubtedly one of the best footballers on the planet.The Liverpool phenom has been at the heart of everything good about the club in recent years.However, Salah often grabs the headlines for his incredible generosity and kindness off the field as well.Mohamed Salah is nothing short of a menace on the field. He has…
Illustration by Richard A Chance For decades, we’ve told CEOs to be humble. It’s fine to be confident, even fiercely determined, we say, but arrogance will bring you down. The ideal leader respects and listens to colleagues, communicates honestly, adjusts opinions when confronted with new evidence, and makes decisions that strengthen the organization rather than…
The legacy of the legendary salesman lives on“ROCK AND roller cola wars, I can’t take it any more!” cried Billy Joel in his chart-topping song from 1989, “We didn’t start the fire”. He had had enough of the intense marketing battle between America’s fizzy-drinks behemoths. As the underdog, PepsiCo had stunned its bigger rival, Coca-Cola,…
HBR Staff/Melpomenem/Getty Images/Unsplash In these difficult times, we’ve made a number of our coronavirus articles free for all readers. To get all of HBR’s content delivered to your inbox, sign up for the Daily Alert newsletter. Your employees’ needs are always varied. But right now, as many companies navigate returning to an office in some…
Klaus Vedfelt/Getty Images Careers are often depicted as having two phases: a steady climb upward towards commercial success, fame and power, which is then capped by a period of continuing effort dedicated to service to others. Case in point: David Brooks wrote a recent book about later life, called The Second Mountain, in which he describes…
Shana Novak/Getty Images After election day, more than 100 million Americans will physically or virtually report to their jobs, one of the few remaining spaces where citizens routinely engage with others who come from diverse backgrounds and hold different viewpoints. Those workplaces are likely to be the first outlet for pent-up emotions at a time…