The Intersection of Management and Economic Inequality

Number of words: 3,246 When Pete Buttigieg accepted a position at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company, he already had sterling credentials: high-school valedictorian, a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship. He could have taken any number of jobs and, moreover, had no obvious interest in business. Nevertheless, he joined the firm. Each weekday … Read more

A Green Solution: The Promise of Bacteria in Construction

Number of words: 588 Cement and concrete haven’t changed much as technology in over a hundred years, but researchers in Colorado are revolutionizing building materials by literally bringing them to life. The method developed, presented January 15 in the journal Matter, combines sand and bacteria to build a living material that has structural load-bearing and … Read more

Enhancing Patient Care Through Better Pharma Communication

Number of words: 8,092 The international pharmaceutical industry has made significant efforts towards ensuring compliant and ethical communication and interaction with physicians and patients. This article presents the current status of the worldwide governance of communication practices by pharmaceutical companies, concentrating on prescription-only medicines. It analyzes legislative, regulatory, and code-based compliance control mechanisms and highlights … Read more

The Rise of Self-Taught Data Scientists: A New Era

Number of words: 1,362 In the developer series, we reach out to developers, practitioners and experts from the machine learning community to gain insights on their journey in data science, and the tools and skills essential for their day-to-day operation. For this week’s column, Analytics India Magazine got in touch with Konstantin Yakovlev, a Kaggle … Read more

The Role of Insects in Maintaining Ecosystem Balance

Number of words: 1,266 The world’s insects are hurtling down the path to extinction, threatening a “catastrophic collapse of nature’s ecosystems”, according to the first global scientific review. More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of … Read more