“Inflation is easing”, so why does it still feel so hard? Headline inflation in Bangladesh has cooled from last year’s double-digit peaks, but most households don’t feel any relief at…
Since 2018, Bangladesh’s economy has faced growing headwinds from global trade tensions and conflicts. For years, the country’s export engine, dominated by ready-made garments (RMG) sold primarily to Western markets,…
On a weekday morning in Dhaka, a university student opens her laptop and types an essay prompt into ChatGPT before heading to class. At the same time, in Chicago, a…
Introduction Some call AI the world's eighth wonder, and for good reason. It can write, speak, analyze, and solve problems faster than most humans ever could. But here’s the interesting…
Introduction: A Rising Power in a Strategic Crossroad Bangladesh, once considered a peripheral player in South Asia, has emerged as a pivotal actor in the region’s geopolitical landscape. With a…
Do we know the actual cost of the comfy clothes we wear on regular basis? We may think that it only takes fabrics, machineries, and labor to fulfill our basic…
If the art of learning something is vague, how would individuals learn? Learning develops human ability and, hence, businesses want their employees to learn. They introduce various training programs for…
There was a time when AI in marketing meant automating emails or plugging in some predictive analytics to guess which leads might convert. Those days already feel distant. We are…
The Engagement Trap Marketers have always loved numbers. Clicks, likes, shares, impressions - they look neat on dashboards and make for convincing slides in boardrooms. Digital advertising supercharged this obsession…
Each generation has struggled with its own challenges; however, ours can be described by a single word: overload. We live in an era when the information flows all over the…
In 2007, JPMorgan analyst Barton Crockett issued a statement stating that Netflix was facing tougher competition from Blockbuster than originally expected. In 2007, Netflix was facing a peculiar crunch situation.…
Mark Zuckerberg has already gone through an audacious pivot: rebranding Facebook as Meta and betting big on the Metaverse. It is now regarded as one of the most prominent technological…
A generation ago, “working hard” meant showing up, doing your job, and heading home when the day was done. Work had boundaries, physical, emotional, and psychological. Today, those lines have…
The average consumer receives between 3,000 and 10,000 commercial messages every single day. These messages can influence us to buy products we need or solve problems we didn’t even realise…
Google Doodles, launched by Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998, sparked controversy. Marketing textbooks have instructed the IT behemoth to maintain consistent corporate branding at all times.…