We are drowning in numbers, and we no longer understand what they mean. Every day, headlines bombard us with figures meant to inform: billions in spending, trillions in debt, percentages signaling growth or decline. But for most of us, these numbers blur together. They register as “large” or “small,” but almost never as real. And that is more than a math problem. It is a civic one.
INFORMS has awarded Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) its 2026 Franz Edelman Award for Achievement in Advanced Analytics, Operations Research and Management Science, for reengineering how global cloud infrastructure is planned and delivered, applying advanced analytics and AI to orchestrate complex fulfillment decisions across its rapidly expanding data center network.
In the rush to adopt artificial intelligence, many employers are now requiring that employees use AI tools. As you’re using AI, be intentional and selective. It’s critical that you know yourself. Research published in Management Science found that AI is most valuable for people who understand their own abilities and limitations. Assess yourself, so you can factor this into your process for incorporating AI into your work.
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Fifty-one people, including an 8-year-old boy, were killed Thursday in a Russian missile attack on a café.
According to a recent McKinsey report on international manufacturing trends, the United States lost over six million jobs to offshoring between the years 2000 – 2009. But a UC Berkeley study undertaken as far back as the early 2000s tabulated losses of up to fourteen million jobs throughout the nation’s economic ecosystem. Each offshored manufacturing and/or service job exerts an adverse, widely resonating local-to-national jobs impact, akin to how throwing a stone into a pond sends waves from the point of impact outwards, far and wide.
Last Friday, Israeli newspapers were filled with stories about the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, also called the October War. In 1973, the country had nearly been defeated by co-ordinated surprise attacks from its Arab neighbors. Never again, people thought.
Why an abandoned plan to use recycled plastic bottles is a wake-up call for supply chain sustainability.
A.I. technologies like deepfakes, designed to put out false video with false audio of candidates and others, are sparking concerns from those in charge of elections.
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