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In less than four years the share price of Chegg, an https://www.economist.com/business/2024/01/11/ai-can-transform-education-for-the-better service, has dropped by 99%. A post-pandemic slump in digital learning is partly to blame for its tumble. [...]

Byline: Nick Manes Detroiters are increasingly fixing up and repopulating long-neglected homes in the city amid the shifting economics for investors in Detroit's residential market. In neighborhoods around the city, [...]

About a decade ago, a hedge fund manager (who asked to remain nameless) got a call from a young short seller about a pharma company whose stock price they were [...]

Byline: Special to the RBJ Based on Google trends, 77% of all shoppers considered sustainability to be an important factor when selecting products last year, an 8% increase from 2021. [...]

The UK accounting industry plays a crucial role in the nation’s economy, facilitating financial transparency, compliance, and advisory services for businesses across various sectors. Traditionally, accounting firms have operated under [...]

Author Peter Spence, AICPA & CIMA Date published May 2, 2024 Categories A significant part of the work we do at AICPA & CIMA is about looking at trends within [...]

AICPA & CIMA released today their Re-defining finance for a sustainable world white paper, the latest iteration of their Future of Finance research programme. Originally launched in 2019 with the [...]

In the final year of my doctorate program, I was fortunate enough to win a fellowship that would bring me to Washington for a year to work as a legislative [...]

Dollar General is part of a trend of major retailers trying to move into medical care. Cut-rate treatment is the last thing needed in the vulnerable populations dollar stores serve. [...]

As bullets fly around a high-speed train carrying a former Miss World and a gang of spies through the Italian Alps, shopping is surely the last thing on viewers' minds. [...]

Until the events of the past week it seemed that the Wagner Group's next outpost was more likely to be Burkina Faso than Belarus. But on June 27th https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/06/12/abominable-showman-the-rise-of-wagners-yevgeny-prigozhin arrived [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging organizations worldwide, forcing them to rethink their business models as they struggle for survival. Businesses have had to address a wide range of issues, from [...]

The oil industry's interest in the downstream segment of the business has known ups and downs. This article reviews the past, present and projected future of the downstream sector and [...]

Legalising it would cut into gangs' profits Criminal gangs in Latin America no longer just smuggle cocaine and other narcotics into the United States. Now they also are involved in [...]

Palm Beach FL (SPX) May 18, 2022 The 'Space-as-a-service', 'Satellite-as-a-service' and 'Space Data as a Service' are the newest business models of Space Industry, according to a recent report from [...]

Only a short time ago, access to health care outside of traditional boundaries was fraught with regulatory, reimbursement, technological and other barriers, and patient/consumer trust and adoption were at low [...]

Byline: Nona Tepper And Alex Kacik More commercial insurers are overhauling their business models in response to changes ushered in by the Affordable Care Act. The ACA's cap on the [...]

Big profits The stealthy growth of a retail titan B&M'S STORE in Wingate Road sells a bewildering mixture of things: paint, toilet seats, pistachio nuts, Coca-Cola, screwdrivers, board games, birthday [...]

'The business model of publishing allows for enormous risk-taking that can include Latino authors--if publishers are willing to give them a chance.' A Texas congressman and second-generation Mexican American says [...]

You'd probably find it challenging to find someone who hasn't heard of Uber--the ride-sharing company has more than 8 million users and is ubiquitous in many major cities. Along with [...]

OVERVIEW: Business model innovation has arguably become a critical way to innovate, but its success factors are poorly understood. A lack of tools allowing the examination of business models in their entirety combined with the complex relationship between business model changes and market outcomes makes this especially difficult. This article introduces a comprehensive framework that addresses these two issues, by providing an integrated, value-based view of all of the critical components of the business model. The framework is applied to two well-known cases--Netflix and Spotify--to demonstrate how the tool can be used to highlight the critical differences in business models that may at first seem very similar and show how the framework enables managers to envisage the dynamics of business model innovation. KEYWORDS: Business model innovation, Value-based perspective, Value capture, Netflix, Spotify, Long gone are the days when breakthrough technological innovation was considered the primary driver of competitiveness. Increasingly, innovative business models--the mechanisms for capturing value from technological innovation--are allowing less technologically [...]

Byline: Aubrey Hruby For more than 30 years, governments and international development organizations have followed the same recipe for formalising the world's informal economy; enacting new legislation and regulations or [...]

The data and analytics field has undergone a major evolution. Much like other disruptive innovations, there has been a healthy dose of hype for analytics--and once ultramodern phrases such as [...]