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Louis Vuitton’s Bed Trunk Gets Contemporary Update by Pharrell Williams
[Product]
2024/10/07 09:10
Fellow LV designer Nicolas Ghesquière has also reinterpreted the historic, 19th-century piece.The French maison just unveiled two new versions of its iconic bed trunk designed by artistic director of the women’s collections Nicolas Ghesquière and men’s creative director Pharrell Williams, respectively. The modern successors are based on the 19th-century original but have a contemporary twis...
(Paper) Double-Edged Stars : Michelin Stars, Reactivity, and Restaurant Exits
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:09
The personal stress that comes with working toward — and then maintaining — a Michelin star has been well documented in TV shows such as The Bear or memoirs like Burn the Place. On the other hand, it would seem the restaurants themselves can only benefit from such a major accolade. Yet a new study published in the Strategic Management Journal, actually finds that restaurants that received a M...
What Sephora’s Annual Festival Reveals About The Future of Beauty
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:08
Fans flocked to Sephora’s ‘beauty funhouse’ in Atlanta last week to meet brands like Sol de Janeiro, Danessa Myricks, and Brown Girl Jane.In the early 20th century, Atlanta’s Pullman Yards was a thriving industrial complex, a leading hub for chemical manufacturing. This past weekend, the entertainment and event venue was home to a very different industry, as 8,000 beauty fans descended from...
(Paper) Letta, UC Berkeley’s Groundbreaking AI Startups, Has Just Come Out of Stealth
[Investing]
2024/10/07 09:07
A startup called Letta has just emerged from stealth with tech that helps AI models remember users and conversations. Created in UC Berkeley’s famed labs startup factory, it also announced $10 million in seed money led by Felicis’ Astasia Myers, at a $70 million post-money valuation. Letta is also backed by a who’s who of angel investors in AI, like Google’s Jeff Dean, Hugging Face’s Clem...
A Bold AI Ambition for B2B Marketing, Sales, and Service
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:06
AI can fundamentally transform the customer journey—if organizations pursue the right unified strategy.According to new BCG research, 74% of marketing, sales, and service leaders expect GenAI to enhance key business metrics.But first movers haven’t achieved the expected value or ROI because their initial use cases don’t go far enough.BCG’s Deploy Reshape Invent transformation framework sets...
It’s All ‘Smiles’ Following Gut New York’s First Campaign for Heinz
[Business]
2024/10/07 09:05
Ketchup fans go to extremes to let people know that ‘It Ha-Ha-Has to Be Heinz’Gut New York’s first campaign for Heinz was a messy one—in a good way.Kraft Heinz in-house agency The Kitchen also provided support for “Heinz Smiles,” consisting of three ads in which fans of Heinz Tomato Ketchup smear the product all over their faces with huge smiles to show just how much they love the taste.G...
The Nothing Robot Vacuum (1) Brings Transparent Tech to Smart Homes
[Design]
2024/10/07 09:04
If you think just about the Nothing.tech company ethos of bringing fun back to tech while still being design-driven and meaningful, that ethos can apply to pretty much any category of product. Sure, Nothing’s best known for their earbuds, phones, and even other accessories like the CMF Watch Pro… so here’s a proposition – what if we took Nothing’s ethos and brought it to other products tha...
(Infographic) Average GDP Growth Rates for the Next 10 Years, by Country
[Investing]
2024/10/07 09:03
Since 2021, hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has published reports on global power dynamics amid evolving geopolitical and economic trends.In particular, Dalio analyzes the future prospects of major nations, shaped by labor market forces, economic stability, and social factors. Looking ahead, many advanced economies are expected to experience slower growth as they grapple with their highest debt le...
Bain - Prepare for the Coming AI Chip Shortage
[Business]
2024/10/04 09:10
While businesses couldn’t predict the pandemic, they can guard against the next big threat to semiconductor supply chains.The AI-driven surge in demand for graphics processing units alone could increase total demand for certain upstream components by 30% or more by 2026.Just as the pandemic created a surge in PC demand, a coming wave of AI-enabled devices will likely accelerate smartphone and...
