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Among our industry, sentiment remains positive that decentralized clinical trial models will improve patient centricity and reduce time to market for...
The U.S. Senate this week approved by a wide margin a huge industrial policy bill that funnels R&D funding to robotics. Here’s what it means for investors.
A World Ruled by Persons, Not Machines A World Ruled by Persons, Not Machines By RAPHAELE CHAPPE Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020 Long-term macroeconomic trends such as the decline of the labor share in total national income, the stagnation of wages for average workers, and the widening wage distribution suggest that the U.S. economy has been failing to deliver inclusive economic growth for workers for some time now. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, though the unemployment rate in the U.S. had actually dropped to a 50-year low of 3.5 percent, leading The Economist to c...
PHOTO: Benjamin Disinger | unsplash Like many, Iâve been pondering what life will be like post-pandemic. Itâs become almost trite to ask, âWhat will be the new normal?â There are so many ways to look at this question. How far will business travel rebound to pre-pandemic levels? How will we decide who will be allowed to continue remote work? How will organizations deal with the myriad legal complexities of âreasonable accommodationâ among a hybrid virtual/on-premises workforce? How will automated and distanced emergency short-term process changes map into long-t...
CIOsâ Favorite Reads of 2020 Works on innovation, Covid-19 top the list A ultraviolet sterilizing machine cleaning library books amid the coronavirus outbreak at a library in Tokyo. Photo: kim kyung-hoon/Reuters By Dec. 24, 2020 7:30 am ET Bookshelves emerged as a breakout video-meeting background accessory in 2020. When technology leaders were asked by CIO Journal for the one or two books that deserved a prominent place in the background of their video feeds, a few, not surprisingly, suggested titles that dealt with the pandemicâs i...