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Business, Management, and Marketing
Interviews with scholars of business, management and marketing about their new books.
July 9, 2026
On “Turtling” Versus Being Primed for Possibilities
Tissa Richards is a leadership expert, keynote speaker, and the award-winning author of No Permission Needed and Rethinking Resilience: Fueling Your C…
July 5, 2026
Disposable Workers
A revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are excluded from t…
July 3, 2026
The Problem with Personalization
A respected voice on technology shows how seemingly simple ads help dismantle democracy and public discourse. Whether you’re intentionally shopping o…
July 2, 2026
The Tin Man Model of Running a Company Is Rusty
Phil Le-Brun and Jana Werner are enterprise strategists at Amazon Web Services, based in London. Phil was previously a corporate VP and international …
July 2, 2026
Translating History Into Advertising
I chatted with brand planner Mark Rukman about his quest to translate historical ways of thinking into advertising. Mark likes to joke that, as a hist…
July 1, 2026
Pink Tsunami
In his latest book, Pink Tsunami: The Hello Kitty Kawaii Wave that has Swept the World (Headpress 2026), Alan Brender delves into Hello Kitty the mark…
June 29, 2026
Entrepreneurs and the structural transformation of the Chinese apparel industry, 1980–2020
In this interview I met with Dr. Juxuan Zhang (Osaka University) to discuss her research on the history of the Chinese apparel industry since 1979. He…
June 29, 2026
News Machines
British daily newspapers transformed rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth century, ballooning in size and radically reorganizing staffing and p…
June 27, 2026
Business School and the Noble Purpose of the Market
Today's business schools were designed for a world that no longer exists. Capitalism raised the standard of living for billions of people over the pas…
June 24, 2026
What Running Your Own Imprint for 15 Years Teaches You about Books, Readers, and Risk
Great books don't happen by accident. Sarah Crichton, one of publishing's most respected voices and the founder of Sarah Crichton Books at FSG, joins…
June 23, 2026
Work of Fiction
Just how difficult is a career as a writer? In Work of Fiction: Making a Living from Writing in the UK (Palgrave MacMillan, 2024) Christina Williams, …
June 19, 2026
Engineering Global Socialism
Engineering Global Socialism: Ownership, Non-Alignment, and Corporate Culture in a Bosnian Company (Indiana UP, 2026) chronicles the journey of the Bo…
June 18, 2026
Reinvention in an Era of Volatility
Caroline Stokes is a strategist who works with C-Suites and Boards to lead their organizations through AI disruption, climate risk, and geopolitical i…
June 12, 2026
How Does the Second-Hand Book Business Really Work?
Today I’m speaking with Mike Lane, Managing Director and co-founder of WeBuyBooks about the economics of the second-hand book business. WeBuyBooks is …
June 11, 2026
Can I Say That
Can I Say That: Your Go-To Guide for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is your safe space to learn more about diversity, equity and inclusion, and how y…
June 11, 2026
Helping Companies Foster Agility
Born and raised in San Diego, Charles Snow held a variety of jobs early in life, including: paperboy, grocery store cashier, accounting clerk, chauffe…
June 7, 2026
Ben Brabyn
This episode of the New Books Network’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership channel features Richard Lucas in conversation with entrepreneur and community…
June 4, 2026
Turning IBM's Culture Massively Around
Phil Gilbert is best known for leading IBM’s transformation as their General Manager of Design, a project that updated the work of 400,000 IBM employe…
June 4, 2026
In Search of Trustworthy AI
Craig Hatkoff has spent four decades at the intersection of innovation, culture-building, and institutional transformation. He pioneered commercial mo…
June 4, 2026
Navigating Landmines at Work
Susan MacKenty Brady is a leadership educator, executive coach, bestselling author, and the founding CEO of the Simmons University Institute for Inclu…