Jodie Thellin Skyberg - September 18, 2020 - 8 views

The U.S. pharma industry is under attack by executive order, with the latest salvo designed to ensure the Medicare Part B program pays the same price for drugs as similarly developed nations pay. That order joins others issued this summer, all aimed at high U.S. drug prices. These orders – all variants of previous orders and […]

Randal Kenworthy - September 17, 2020 - 32 views

It’s unseemly to include “silver linings” and “COVID-19” in the same sentence. The pandemic has claimed nearly a million lives worldwide. While optimism around a vaccine is reasonably high, for now it remains beyond our grasp. And we’ve barely begun to feel what the World Bank says will be the worst global recession since World […]

Jillian Powers - September 16, 2020 - 114 views

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust our lives into uncertainty. The unemployment rate remains high, people struggle to plan their days and their lives due to unclear and ever-changing guidelines for returning to work and school, and consumers worry about both their finances and the health and well-being of their families and communities. COVID-19 has resulted […]

Amresh Singh - September 15, 2020 - 178 views

Even with many employees continuing to work remotely, as many as 80% of workers are expected to return to the workplace in the next few months. This represents a massive challenge for organizations that need to adhere to social distancing and worker hygiene requirements. Some of the key challenges will be to ensure a contactless […]

Meganne Franks - September 14, 2020 - 149 views

There’s a reason racial gaslighting is so widely talked about: It’s everywhere, especially the workplace. Gaslighting is a covert form of undermining others so that they doubt what they experience, see or feel. Racial gaslighting spurs self-doubt about racist experiences. It often subtly shifts the dialog from the topic at hand to the speaker and […]

Pradeep Behl - September 11, 2020 - 111 views

With employees continuing to work from home to meet the social distancing requirements of COVID-19, more people are juggling business with personal engagements, at times outside normal business hours. Often, they’re using their mobile business laptop, as well as a plethora of additional wireless mobile devices. This has increased the security demands on the hybrid […]

Alan Alper - September 10, 2020 - 479 views

From the dawn of cyber time, the computer world has pivoted around code – and coders. Way back when, before handheld devices, packaged software, client/server and cloud-based server/client computing models became de rigueur, there were two choices: Hire experts to roll your own code, or contract with expensive third-party specialists to build enterprise-grade software. Either […]

Noe A. Gutierrez - September 10, 2020 - 211 views

Diversity has always mattered to me. But back in 2014, I was one of very few Hispanics working at Cognizant. As a friend and I brainstormed about ways for more diverse talent to find their way to the company, he suggested I join the Hispanic IT Executive Council (HITEC), a professional association for senior business […]

Tiran Dagan - September 9, 2020 - 64 views

Like their pure-play brethren, diversified media companies have worked hard to differentiate and shape content across their properties. Yet as they step into direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming services, companies like NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Disney and Viacom face a new challenge: how best to personalize the one-stop viewing experience that’s at the heart of DTC. Delivering personalization means walking […]

Amresh Singh - September 3, 2020 - 408 views

World crises – whether they’re inflicted by war, nature, economic turbulence or the current pandemic – often catalyze new ways of doing business. With the COVID-19 crisis, businesses’ working patterns are evolving to accommodate social-distancing requirements, with many signs pointing to an elongated shift to remote work. A recent Gartner survey reveals 82% of businesses […]