From the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto comes Gonzo Marketing, a knuckle-whitening ride to the place where social criticism, biting satire, and serious commerce meet…and where the outdated ideals of mass marketing and broadcast media are being left in the dust. As master of ceremonies at the wake for traditional one-size-fits-all marketing, Locke has assembled a unique guest […]
Matchmakers have been around forever – there’s seemingly always been a need for a business that brings together people looking to marry. But until relatively recently, we didn’t recognize that many other kinds of businesses – from Airbnb and American Express to Tencent and Visa – are matchmakers, too. And these businesses operate under a […]
Computer programs can recognize human faces more reliably than humans. They beat us at board games, they bluff better than the best poker players in the world, and some of them can almost pass as human. At a breathtaking pace, machines are becoming better and faster at making complex decisions—even compared to us. Machines have […]
Under the watch of the business community, Atlanta grew from a railroad terminus to an essential production hub for the Confederacy and a tempting target for the Union armies. The city grew faster than even its greatest boosters could have imagined, but war, slavery, and economic pressures left many in dire situations. Then, after having […]
Brett Rushforth is a scholar of the early modern Atlantic world whose research focuses on comparative slavery, Native North America, and French colonialism and empire. He is assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon. His first book, Colonial North America and the Atlantic World (co-edited with Paul W. Mapp), uses primary documents to […]
Blake Clayton is a member of the Integrated Oil and Gas equity research team at Citigroup. Prior to joining Citigroup, Dr. Clayton was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he currently serves as an adjunct fellow on energy. He received a doctorate from Oxford University. The recipient of the University of Chicago […]
Eva Rosen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology, at the Poverty and Inequality Research Lab at Johns Hopkins University. She will join the faculty at Georgetown University in Fall 2017. Her research and writing focuses on urban sociology, poverty and inequality, race and ethnicity, immigration, and social policy.
Virginia DeJohn Anderson, is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, where she has taught early American history since 1985. She is the author of C<em>reatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America</em>, published by Oxford University Press, the winner of the 2005 Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society book award. Most recently, she is the author of <em>The Martyr and the Traitor: The Perilous Lives of Nathan Hale and Moses Dunbar</em>, also published by Oxford University Press.
Backed by her landmark scientific work on mindfulness and artistic nature, bestselling author and Harvard psychologist Ellen J. Langer shows us that creativity is not a rare gift that only some special few are born with, but rather an integral part of everyone’s makeup. All of us can express our creative impulses—authentically and uniquely—and, in […]
For centuries, western thinking about creativity fixed on the notion of the lone, heroic genius triumphing through sheer force of will and intellect. The new science of ideas set forth in Smart World compels us to finally abandon this view. In its place, Richard Ogle proposes we take an essentially ecological view of the mind in which […]
In the tradition of E. F. Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful, renowned economist Clair Brown argues persuasively for a new economics built upon equality, sustainability, and right living. She believes that there is something very wrong with GDP. An economist at the University of California at Berkeley, she has long been troubled by the fact that classical economics […]
The story of the marriage of Rachel and Andrew Jackson has come down to us as one of the most romantic love stories in American history. But aside from treatment in a chapter of the many biographies of Andrew – Rachel’s story has been barely told. (at least not since Irving Stone’s The President’s Lady!) Although […]
Professor of political science David Welch is the George Ignatieff Chair in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto. An expert on international crisis and war, his research focuses on national and international security, decision making, intelligence and moral psychology. His book, Justice and the Genesis of War was the winner of the […]
Blake Clayton is a member of the Integrated Oil and Gas equity research team at Citigroup. Prior to joining Citigroup, Dr. Clayton was a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he currently serves as an adjunct fellow on energy. He received a doctorate from Oxford University. The recipient of the University of Chicago […]
Luke Shaefer is the director of Poverty Solutions at the University of Michigan, an interdisciplinary, university-level initiative that seeks to inform, identify, and test innovative strategies to prevent and alleviate poverty. He is the co-author, with Kathryn Edin, of the award-winning $2 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.
A developmental and clinical psychologist, Ed Tronick co-founded the Child Development Unit at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Touchpoints Program with T. Berry Brazelton. He is currently a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a Research Associate in Newborn Medicine at Harvard Medical School. The YouTube video of the […]