Matt Katz, Managing Partner and Head of Retail & Consumer Packaged Goods was interviewed by Retail Dive on shifting trends in the Direct to Consumer market towards investing in brick-and-mortar locations. Matt looks at the strategy behind this shift, “Direct-to-consumer brands recognized that opening stores provided additional connectivity with a customer so that it wasn’t simply transactional.” He goes on to explain how the added relationship benefits make investing in real estate worthwhile, even in a pandemic.
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From Pilot to Scale: Building the GenAI-Ready Organization
While GenAI today is in the public eye, early forms of AI have influenced the workplace for decades. AI appeared in the 1950s, with more practical applications emerging thirty years later. With advances in machine learning and natural language processing, AI’s role expanded. Most remember when GenAI took center stage in late 2022, with ChatGPT capturing the world’s attention. According to OpenAI, more than one million people signed up in just five days.
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Pierre Buhler was recently interviewed by Schwab Network about his reaction to big bank earnings and outlook for the remaining year.
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