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We are EXCITED about the new Xbox Series X technical details, including the whopping 12 teraflops of computing power that the next-gen Xbox is packing. Plus: EA canceled another Star Wars project, March's Games With Gold have been announced, and more!

In today’s connected and digital business world, more and more companies are relying on service providers to help achieve their business objectives. Because of this, SOC (System and Organization Control for Service Organizations) reports are gaining more importance. SOC reports… Read More

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With many organizations having machine learning models running in production, some are discovering that inefficiencies exists in the first step of the process: feature definition and extraction. Robust feature management is now being realized as a key missing part of the ML stack, and improving it by applying standard software development practices is gaining attention.

Apache Spark runs fast, offers robust, distributed, fault-tolerant data objects, and integrates beautifully with the world of machine learning and graph analytics. Learn more here.

So in this article, we will interpret, analyze the COVID-19 DNA sequence data and try to get as many insights regarding the proteins that made it up. Later will compare COVID-19 DNA with MERS and SARS and we’ll understand the relationship among them.

Interactive visualizations are an effective method for understanding the COVID-19 pandemic. This article presents a repository filled with just such insightful interactions.

Here is an overview of another great natural language processing resource, this time from Microsoft, which demonstrates best practices and implementation guidelines for a variety of tasks and scenarios.

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With time-series decomposition, we were able to infer that the consumers were waiting for the highest sale of the year rather than buying up-front.

Love it or hate it, the double sidebar makes context switching a lot easier as you move between ad accounts or from other search engines.

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The hit in mid-March was sudden and dramatic, but there appear to be signs, including from media buyers, that the worst is over.

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Marketers seem to be favoring performance marketing even as brand may be gaining in consumer importance.

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With the workforce at home, a rise in agile adoption, and organizations making major pivots in strategy, the need for these types of platforms is likely to continue.

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This is the first time Google says it has provided this kind of data to the public.

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Lack of exercise or any type of physical activity not only causes high blood pressure, cardiac arrests and diabetes but also leads to elevated levels of stress, anxiety, insomnia and depression and, in some cases, even early death. It also leads to loss of focus, lack of attention and concentration along with decreased levels of energy and feeling of lethargy. Incidentally, women and older adults are more prone to lead an inactive lifestyle compared to men.

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Felix Oberholzer, Harvard Business School professor.

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and author of "Science Business: The Promise, the Reality, and the Future of Biotech."

John Landry, HBR book reviewer.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Bill Taylor, Herminia Ibarra, Paul Hemp, Tammy Erickson, and Tom Davenport, suggest New Year's resolutions for business executives.

John Landry, HBR book reviewer.

Alyson Slater, director of strategy for the Global Reporting Initiative.

Jeff Stibel, president of Web.com.

Rohit Deshpande, Harvard Business School professor.

Clay Christensen, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Reinventing Your Business Model."

Colonel Tom Kolditz, professor and head of the department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth."

Dr. Robert Blendon, professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Roger Martin, dean of the Rotman School of Management and author of "The Design of Business."

Andrew McAfee, principal research scientist at MIT's Center for Digital Business and author of "Enterprise 2.0."

Dr. Atul Gawande, surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital and author of "The Checklist Manifesto."

Larry Kramer, founder of MarketWatch, Inc., and author of "C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today."

Rita McGrath, Columbia Business School professor and coauthor of "Discovery-Driven Growth."

Jib Ellison, founder of Blu Skye and coauthor of the HBR article "The Sustainable Economy."

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."

Dan Pallotta, president of Advertising for Humanity and author of "Uncharitable."

Andy O'Connell and Scott Berinato, editors of the Idea Watch section of HBR and The Daily Stat.

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.

Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.

Bryan Garner, editor in chief of Black's Law Dictionary and author of the "HBR Guide to Better Business Writing."

Mark Tercek, CEO of The Nature Conservancy and author of "Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature."

Thomas Mooney, co-owner and CEO of House Spirits Distillery.

Freek Vermeulen of London Business School explains how best practices become bad practices.

Gautam Mukunda, HBS professor, on the dangers of managing companies for shareholders.

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, professor at University College London and Columbia University and CEO of Hogan Assessments, explains how the fad for strengths-based coaching may actually be weakening us.

Paul Leinwand, co-author of the book "Strategy That Works," explains how successful companies solve this thorny problem.

Bharat Anand, author of The Content Trap and professor at Harvard Business School, talks about the strategic challenges facing digital businesses, and explains how he and his colleagues wrestled with them when designing HBX, the school's online learning platform.

Larry Summers, former U.S. treasury secretary, is calling on American business leaders to stand up to President Donald Trump. Summers sharply criticizes the administration’s protectionist agenda, and he says it’s time for executives to call out how those policies undermine the economy and the country's best interests in the long term.

Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, professors at Harvard Business School, spell out an overlooked career path: buying a business and running it as CEO. Purchasing a small company lets you become your own boss and reap financial rewards without the risks of founding a start-up. Still, there are things you need to know. Ruback and Yudkoff are the authors of the “HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business.”

Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School professor, explains how rapid advances in machine learning are presenting new opportunities for businesses. He breaks down how the technology works and what it can and can’t do (yet). He also discusses the potential impact of AI on the economy, how workforces will interact with it in the future, and suggests managers start experimenting now. Brynjolfsson is the co-author, with Andrew McAfee, of the HBR Big Idea article, “The Business of Artificial Intelligence.” They’re also the co-authors of the new book, “Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future.