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Business, Management, and Marketing
Interviews with scholars of business, management and marketing about their new books.
July 21, 2024
Capitalist Humanitarianism
The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades – to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the …
July 3, 2024
History and Digital Media
After she earned her BA and MA in history, Allison Tourville decided to pursue a career in social media strategy. For nearly a decade, she worked for…
June 26, 2024
Faith, Business, and the Nature of Desire
Why do we want what we want? Philosopher, theologian, and literary critic René Girard posits that we draw our desires largely from the people around u…
June 22, 2024
The Rise of Corporate Feminism
From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greate…
June 13, 2024
More than a Glitch
Today’s book is: More Than A Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech (MIT Press, 2024), by Meredith Broussard. When technology rein…
June 6, 2024
Using History to Better Finance and Build Social Wealth
Esoteric and frequently disinterested in the public good, financial institutions can be hard to navigate for those seeking to advance social welfare. …
June 4, 2024
CEO Secrets
Richard interviews BBC Journalist Dougal Shaw about his book CEO Secrets based on the BBC Series CEO secrets in which he interviewed 100s of CEOs. W…
May 29, 2024
How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive cu…
May 22, 2024
American Innovation, American Vitality
How can we restore America's frontier spirit, foster innovation, and stave off decay? Chris Buskirk sits down to discuss his new book America and the …
May 16, 2024
Made in China
For centuries, the vastness of the Chinese market tempted foreign companies in search of customers. But in the 1970s, when the United States and China…
May 13, 2024
The Black Ceiling
America's elite law firms, investment banks, and management consulting firms are known for grueling hours, low odds of promotion, and personnel practi…
May 2, 2024
History, Data Science and Journeys of Discovery
I had the pleasure of talking to Francisco Ramos about how his study of history shaped his approach to data science, and public policy, and his effort…
May 1, 2024
Branding Trust
In the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds th…
April 30, 2024
Gray Areas
Labor and race have shared a complex, interconnected history in America. For decades, key aspects of work—from getting a job to workplace norms to adv…
April 25, 2024
Reviving Rural News
Based on extensive research into weekly rural publishers and rural readers, Reviving Rural News: Transforming the Business Model of Community Journali…
April 5, 2024
Cultural Insights, Historical Perspectives and Business Strategy
On this episode of "Practical History," I talk with Charles Halvorson, a history PhD, author, and business strategist. With experience that spans wor…
April 5, 2024
The Big Myth
In their bestselling book Merchants of Doubt, Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway revealed the origins of climate change denial. Now, in The Big Myth: Ho…
March 26, 2024
Shopping All the Way to the Woods
Rachel S. Gross's Shopping All the Ways to the Woods (Yale University Press, 2024) tells the fascinating history of the profitable paradox of the Amer…
March 21, 2024
On the Job
Through a variety of archival documents, artefacts, illustrations, and references to primary and secondary literature, On the Job: A History of Americ…
March 7, 2024
Searching for Future STEM Leaders to Address the World's Greatest Challenges
On Episode 7 of "Practical History" I chat with Nick Cohen of the philanthropic organization Schmidt Futures. Nick's graduate training in history ha…