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Kim Turner at the hospital with her daughterKim TurnerColorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. It’s also one of the most preventable — if caught early, the five-year survival rate exceeds 90%. And yet, more than 45 million eligible Americans are due or overdue for screening. While colorectal cancer symptom education and screening guidelines exist, patients still struggle to understand and access screening tools.Colonoscopy remains the gold standard, but completion requires bowel preparation, sedation, time off work, and an available specialist. Depending on the research study, only 20 to 40% of patients actually…

Jensen Huang, CEO, NvidiaNvidiaNvidia CEO Jensen Huang used his Keynote address of GTC Taipei on June 1 to declare that the era of autonomous agents has arrived and backed up the claim with new hardware across the data center, desktop and physical world. Huang announced that the Vera Rubin platform, Nvidia’s next data center system, has arrived full productionand framed almost every product the company unveiled in Taipei around software agents that observe, reason, plan and act with little human input.The keynote at the Taipei Music Center reflected a shift in how Nvidia describes itself. Huang said the company now…

The growing use of AI tools in the workplace means more tasks will be automated, with many jobs poised to take the hit. What remains to be seen is how workers plan to respond to the potential threat of these new technologies. “What do students and workers naturally gravitate towards when they feel their future jobs are at risk?” he asks Monica Gamez-Dzokicwho completed a postdoc at Kellogg and is now at Purdue University. Gamez-Dzokic, with me Mariam Kouhaki and Adam Waitzboth management and organization professors at Kellogg, set out to address this question in a series of studies. Specifically,…

The devastating, immediate effects these shootings have on the physically injured victims are well documented and undeniable. But far less is known about the wider, long-term effects of these violent incidents on the well-being of student survivors. “We need to broaden the lens when we think about the impact of gun violence in schools,” he says Molly Snellhealth economist and assistant professor of economics at Northwestern and strategy at Kellogg. Otherwise, we risk significantly underestimating the cost.” To understand these long-term effects, Schnell conducted a comprehensive analysis of educational and economic data for students who attended Texas public schools where…

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO – FEBRUARY 23: Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo speaks during the daily morning briefing at the Palacio Nacional on February 23, 2026 in Mexico City, Mexico. The Secretariat of National Defense of Mexico confirmed that during a security operation in Tapalpa, Jalisco, Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, known as “El Mencho”, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, was killed. Mexican authorities have confirmed the deaths of more than 25 members of the armed forces in various cartel attacks since the operation that killed Oseguera. (Photo by Christopher Rogel Blanquet/Getty Images)Getty ImagesIt is a shame that Mexico is a…

FEB. 4, 2026: Rep. Buddy Carter, R-Ga., participates in a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on the pharmacy benefit manager reforms included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty ImagesA bipartisan group of lawmakers reintroduced a sentence last month — the Patient Law Before Monopolies — which would prohibit health care companies with pharmacy benefit managers from owning retail pharmacies. If the bill passes, the companies will have one year to sell their pharmacies. This proposed legislation poses a far greater threat to the profitability of the health insurance industry…

Those who excel at behaving in this way can have an edge over their peers. But because these behaviors are traditionally seen as “masculine,” women often feel ostracized from the conversation. The emphasis on male behavior extends to business schools — a trend that has drawn attention Nicole Stephens when he went from working in psychology to vocational school. “It was very striking to me how masculinist some of the norms are in classroom cultures in business school settings, especially compared to other disciplines in the social sciences or humanities,” says Stephens, a professor of management and organizations at the…

ROBINSON TOWNSHIP, PENNSYLVANIA – OCTOBER 26: An oil and gas drilling rig is in operation on October 26, 2017 in Robinson Township, Pennsylvania. The Kendal well uses a horizontal drilling technique to extract oil and natural gas in the extensive Marcellus shale formation. (Photo by Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images)Getty Images”The rates of return are very little under fifty dollars.” How legendary oilman Harold Hamm described the state of mining to Gregory Zuckerman in his 2013 book, The Frakers. The high cost of oil drilling in the state is of most concern to us right now, and as the debate continues among…

Many companies are using AI to automate tasks, reduce costs and speed up existing workflows, but this approach risks missing the much bigger opportunity.Adobe StockThe first instinct for many companies adopting AI is to ask a simple question: Where can we save time or reduce costs?This usually means automating day-to-day work, speeding up hiring, handling customer service queries or streamlining compliance. In practice, AI is often bolted onto existing workflows, with a chatbot here or an agent managing a narrow process there.These are helpful steps. They can offer quick wins and visible short-term benefits. The danger is that they can…