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Business, Management, and Marketing
Interviews with scholars of business, management and marketing about their new books.
August 6, 2026
On Behalf of HR Realizing Its Necessary Potential - Not as a Complaint Department
Pat Garland is an HR leader, author, consultant and Adjunct Instructor at Loyola University’s Quinlan School of Business (in Chicago). Her career has …
August 4, 2026
The Land of Happiness
The Land of Happiness: How the Japanese Department Store Visualized Modern Life (MIT Press, 2026) explores the far-reaching influence of the Japanes…
August 2, 2026
Mel Rosenberg
Host Richard Lucas sits down with his close friend Mel Rosenberg—scientist, entrepreneur, inventor, TEDx organiser, professor, New Books Network host,…
July 31, 2026
Coding Capitalism
Long before Google, Amazon, or Microsoft, computer technology shaped how people worked, how markets operated, and how businesses became big. After W…
July 30, 2026
Re-Evaluating CX in the AI Era
Michael Brand is a CX strategist and trainer, based in Switzerland, who has been named a Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty…
July 26, 2026
Dynamic Universities
In times of deep uncertainty, the university needs to transform itself into an entrepreneurial entity to maintain long-term evolutionary fitness. Dyna…
July 24, 2026
Negotiation
The world has changed dramatically in just the past few years and so has negotiation. Traditional negotiating tactics, while still effective, need to …
July 23, 2026
Systemic, Non-Linear Change Is Today’s Path Forward
Ilene Fischer is the founder and CEO of Sophia Network, where she guides executive leaders through the turbulence of disruptive change, mergers, reorg…
July 22, 2026
Corporate Power and the Politics of Change
In Corporate Power and the Politics of Change (Cambridge University Press, 2025) Matteo Gatti examines how corporations have taken on roles traditiona…
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
News Machines
British daily newspapers transformed rapidly at the turn of the nineteenth century, ballooning in size and radically reorganizing staffing and p…
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 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, …