Stephan's Friday Picks

• How to turn data into competitive advantage (MIT Sloan)
• Nordstrom closing down in Canada, shuttering all 13 stores (CBC)
• Whiskey fungus fed by Jack Daniel's encrusts a Tennessee town (NYT)
• Interest rate hikes have yet to bring down food prices. Here are some tools governments could try (CBC)
• From the archives (1985): Scandal over poisoned wine embitters Austria (NYT)