Target’s annual shareholder meeting in June was a referendum on the company’s leadership, and the story is bleak: nearly 13% of shareholders opposed the reelection of Executive Chair and former CEO Brian Cornell. Combined with nearly 40% support for a shareholder proposal calling for an independent Board Chair, this level of opposition makes clear that
It is frequently said that the Federal Reserve steers by looking in the rearview mirror, basing monetary policy decisions on where the economy was in the past, rather than where it is today, or where it is headed. The reason is simple: the Fed relies heavily on measures that summarize the preceding 12 months. Those measures
It’s not every day that you see a sitting congresswoman giving herself hormone shots on social media. But last week, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) went further by taking her millions of social media followers along with her–documenting every shot, her unfiltered thoughts, and bringing awareness to fertility education that us fertility doctors have been trying
The apocryphal quip attributed to Mark Twain, “the rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated,” rings true for certain companies in the software space amidst widespread but premature fears of AI-driven obsolescence. Over the last year, approximately $2 trillion in software value has been torched on fears that AI will render many software businesses obsolete
The emergence of new technology has long inspired humans to shape our environments. The invention of steel permitted the rise of skyscrapers, the automobile inspired highway systems and the internet gave rise to a whole new set of digital spaces. Now, a new force for change is upon us. The pace of improvement in AI
Less than 300 million barrels left: the engineering limits threatening the American Strategic Petroleum Reserve | Fortune Dr. Siddharth Misra is a Professor at Texas A&M University and the CTO of AlterNature LLC. He specializes in physics-informed deep learning and sensing technologies for the exploration, development, and production of energy and earth resources. Dr. Misra