Georgia’s hands-off approach worries faculty as new cases of coronavirus in the state tick upward.

Big data is perhaps the most powerful asset we have in solving big problems these days. We need it to track and trace infection, manage healthcare talent and medical supply chains, and plan for our economic futures.

But how can we balance data and privacy? Legislation and regulation of big data such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California’s Consumer Privacy Act are partial measures at best. Regulators and pundits have focused so much on the demand side of the data equation — that is, on the use or sale of private citizens’ data in corporate applications like Facebook, Google, and Uber without the individuals’ awareness — that they’ve failed to look at the supply side of data: where data originates, who creates it, who really owns it, and who gets to capture it in the first place.

The Covid-19 pandemic presents the U.S. health care system with a mind-boggling array of challenges. One of the most urgent is coping with a simultaneous glut and dearth of information. Between tracking outbreaks, staying abreast of the latest information on effective treatments and vaccine development, keeping tabs on how each patient is doing, and recognizing and documenting a seemingly endless stream of weird new symptoms, the entire medical community is being chronically overwhelmed.

A crisis can take different forms and emerge without warning. These crises include advertising disasters, miscommunication with suppliers, or a mishap during a company event. Most organizations prepare contingency plans for various crisis scenarios. However, regardless of the type of crisis that we are facing, it is important that the leaders of an organization use their emotional intelligence when faced with a challenge. It can greatly help them overcome the crisis they are facing. It helps us manage our panic and reactions, and it helps us understand others and help calm their panic.

The challenge of navigating a vast public-health and -economic crisis shares some important parallels with leadership during military conflicts. In this episode of the Inside the Strategy Room podcast, McKinsey senior partner Yuval Atsmon talks with three top US Air Force and Navy leaders about what corporate executives can learn from the practices of military commanders. Michael B. Donley served as the 22nd secretary of the US Air Force.

Contrary to popular belief, commas don't just signify pauses in a sentence.

In fact, precise rules govern when to use this punctuation mark. When followed, they lay the groundwork for clear written communication.

We've compiled a list of all the times when you'll need the mighty comma — and we wrote sentences about ducks to show you their proper use:

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Israeli startups finding it tougher to raise money during the Covid-19 crisis can now look to Taiwan for assistance. Innovation to Industry (i2i), a Taiwan-based innovation company, is funding an incubator program dubbed “IP2 LaunchPad” that includes $70 million earmarked just for Israeli startups.

As Covid-19 decimates university resources, many leaders are wondering what changes they should make to athletic programs, or if they should have sports at all.

As an advisor to entrepreneurs and active angel investor, I often get questions about the realism of the Shark Tank TV series, compared to professional investor negotiations. The simple answer is that with all the staging of TV lights and billionaire investors, it’s nothing like Silicon Valley. Yet the process is eerily realistic, and every entrepreneur can glean some important lessons.

One-third of engineering graduates are worried about timely placements, finds a survey by BridgeLabz, an IP-driven incubation lab that seeks to bridge the skill-gap amongst the existing talent pool of Indian engineers by making them job-ready through experiential learning and focused mentorship.

The survey was conducted on almost 1,000 candidates hailing from different engineering disciplines.

A second wave of coronavirus cases is emerging in the US, an expert of Maryland-based Johns Hopkins University warned amid nationwide Black Lives Matter protests and state reopenings.

"There is a new wave coming in parts of the country," Eric Toner, a senior scholar for Health Security, said Wednesday, as quoted by Bloomberg. "It’s small and it’s distant so far, but it’s coming."

Toner said that the rising infections outpace rise in testing in some states and it is raising concerns whether the outbreak can be controlled.

After making 14 investments in 2019, Texas Halo Fund has already made seven investments so far in 2020.

The Houston-based VC group closed a $6 million fund in January 2020.

While IdeaScale was preparing the original release of our 2020 State of Crowdsourced Innovation Report, we found ourselves in the midst of massive disruption as a result of the novel coronavirus. We started receiving new questions from our customers, our community started launching new campaigns and we set out into a new discovery phase and used the results from our surveys and conversations to inform a special segment of our report: the impact of COVID-19 on innovation. But whether you’re launching your first innovation challenge or your hundredth, this report shares the benchmarks and learnings from your peers.

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As care grows in non-acute settings, the differences in workforce preferences and priorities must be accounted for. Health systems and other healthcare providers should tailor strategies to adequately meet varied workforce needs across care settings.

Most of you will start your business with plenty of passion and purpose, but all too often I see both disappearing after months of facing unanticipated setbacks and challenges. Indeed, it is even more critical that you keep your key team members energized with a high level of passion and purpose, or burnout rears its ugly head, putting the future of your whole business in jeopardy.

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It's not uncommon for tech companies with deep pockets to get into early-stage venture capital investing. Alphabet's Google Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, and Intel Capital are among the most prominent and active corporate venture capital arms within the tech sector. Even relatively newer companies like Slack have established similar funds to invest in start-ups.

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For years, Jean Harvey was part of the Silicon Valley machine, putting in long hours with modest advancement and steep living costs.

“Silicon Valley is rife with opportunity, but there is a particular profile that gets promoted,” says Harvey, who has moved twice from the San Francisco Bay Area to Atlanta since 2002. And she has no intention of coming back despite overtures from Facebook and Visa Inc. VISA, -0.50% the past three years.

While modern innovations seem to occur at light speed — the ever-present iPhone has been with us for a shockingly small amount of time, historically — others, like fermentation, jokes or fire, are so ingrained in our society they seem to have evolved over thousands of years.

One of the most overlooked categories in Workforce Development, especially as it relates to low-income and underserved populations, is teaching the general principles of entrepreneurship. In this sector most services tend to lean towards employment training, adult basic education, English as a Second Language (ESL), along with standard job searching and resume development assistance.

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Continuing the tradition of SwissTech startups pitching in the framework of the Consumer Electronics Show CES ASIA, 20 Swiss tech-driven startups took the global stage at the SwissTech Pitchinar world premiere on 10 June, 2020. Organized by swissnex China in collaboration with SwissTech, CES ASIA and Venture Leaders, with the support of institutional partners, the SwissTech Pitchinar serves as a testament to Switzerland's leading position as a center of technology and innovation.