INSIGHTS

Storytelling has become a staple of marketing and communications in recent years, and with good reason. Unfortunately, many firms still...

A recent piece in the Atlantic by Kaitlyn Tiffany tells not one but several stories about Eastman Kodak: of the author's personal...

Writing history is a creative enterprise. Historians must choose when to begin and end the story, what details to include or exclude,...

A recent New York Times guest essay by Planned Parenthood Federation of America president Alexis McGill Johnson explained how the group...

The most valuable communication advice I have ever been given and still heed to this day goes something like this: if you can’t explain...

The Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan’s recent op-ed on the ramifications of COVID-19 caught my eye. But not for the reasons one...

"Data is the new oil." Raise your hand if you’ve come across this trope at least a few dozen times in the news over the past year. Of...

Storytelling is all the rage these days. In a world that is swimming in content, more and more organizations have begun using stories to...

Today’s wealth managers face a generational challenge. After devoting the countless hours it takes to understand their clients’ goals and...

It’s baseball season again, and that got me to thinking about fandom. Why do we support one team and not another, and why so passionately...

What do love and jealousy, passion and shame, fraternity and anger have to do with managing a family business? That is the focus of the...

As you stroll through a new museum in Helsingborg, Sweden, past an old Sony Betamax video recorder and a bottle of Harley-Davidson eau de...

The recent controversy surrounding Starbucks has historical roots of more than one kind. By now, most people know about the arrest last...

For fans of 1980s pop culture, any mention of the history of tariffs brings to mind the film “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” in which a...

Many commentaries about the demise of Toys “R” Us zero in on one culprit: Amazon. But is the rise of online retail really to blame for...

Can investors align their money and their values? The question has gained new urgency in the wake of the horrific shootings at a Florida...

Considered by many to be one of America’s more estimable cities, Charlottesville, Virginia, has through the years hitched its brand most...

A daughter vividly recalls the moment decades ago when her mother learned that her own father had suffered a stroke. Every detail is...

When Frances Stroh published an introspective, painfully honest memoir last year about the demise of the Stroh family’s beer empire and...

Note: The following is the second part of a two-part essay adapted from the closing keynote address at the EDHEC Business School 2017...