Since Finance is one of the areas of our investment focus, and it is going through significant turmoil because of FTX and related bankruptcies, I wanted to comment on this situation. This is still a sideshow compared to the significant opportunities created by the global disruption of finance. Specifically, I…

A New Vision for Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence has received a lot of attention and hype for what it can do, but perhaps more attention is given to the fear of what it could do. …

Nicholas Mitsakos The Next 10 Years Turbulent times are here to stay. Intense and more frequent volatility will define the next decade. Carnage The onslaught of market-making bad news seems almost a daily event. …

What’s Next? Predictions usually end up being nonsense. We simply draw a trajectory from what we know today. But innovation is a discontinuity. Things are unpredictable because innovation does not come from consensus thinking. It comes from small groups and individuals with a spark of entrepreneurship, intelligence, and vision. One…

Anything to Anyone Anytime A monster is on the loose. The Internet, an extraordinary new platform for communication and business, became accessible to anyone. Companies like Netscape, eBay, Amazon, and Yahoo paved the way so that by 2000 the future was in the Internet’s vast expanse. During this boom, fortunes…

In the 1990s, Sun Microsystems’ cofounder, Bill Joy, wrote an article titled, “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” In it, he questioned if mankind would really put astounding new technological tools to their best use. If not, it won’t be benign. The impact will be the opposite — a downward…

Remarkable things can happen. Or not. Can we solve climate change, food shortage, limited healthcare, and other global stresses — all with TikTok videos? Innovation is unpredictable and astonishing — it can address the world’s most critical issues today, from hunger to efficient energy, to devastating diseases. It is also…

A Solution and a Sideshow Remarkable things can happen. Or not. Can we solve climate change, food shortage, limited healthcare, and other global stresses — all with TikTok videos? Innovation is unpredictable and astonishing — it can address the world’s most critical issues today, from hunger to efficient energy, to…

Special thanks to Prof. Christopher Robichaud and Prof. Dana Born of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government for their assistance in compiling this material, and their invaluable perspective on this topic. This article explores the idea that effective leadership is when a leader’s values focus an organization on a well-defined purpose…