What I've been reading

The roots of Liminal Thinking Liminal Thinking is a discipline with deep and tangled roots that are not easily unraveled. Many people practice Liminal Thinking intuitively, or learn it from a mentor …

It's no secret, the '90s trends have been back in style for a while now. This nostalgic resurgence was perhaps spurred by the success of Aussie rapper Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" music video in 2014. However, since then, '90s trends have popped up all…

Emerging technologies are poised to personalize the consumer experience radically—in real time and almost everywhere. It’s not too early to prepare.

How to reverse a sudden slowdown.

In light of dramatic changes in the consumer landscape, how can retail and packaged-goods executives prepare for the future?

(Editor’s note: This post is part of a six-week blog series on how leadership might look in the future. The conversations generated by these posts will help shape the agenda of a symposium on the topic in June 2010, hosted by HBS’s Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, and Scott Snook. This week’s focus: cultural distinctions and […]

From the Marx Brothers to ​The Simpsons, Richard Pryor to Amy Schumer: 100 bits, sketches, and one-liners that changed humor forever.

When Ryan Kavanaugh wasn’t hanging out with Bradley Cooper, or leasing a horse for Kate Bosworth, or negotiating a Golden Globes shout-out from Christian Bale, or bringing a baby wolf to the office, he was talking up the sweetest game in Hollywood: the chance to invest in movies that seemed certain to succeed.

The fashion for making employees collaborate has gone too far

Jared Rutledge fancied himself a big man of the “manosphere.” But when his online musings about 46 women were exposed, his whole town turned against him.

5 African Consumer Trends you need to know about for 2016, from DIVASUMERS to BENEVOLENT BRIBERY.

Tinder’s binary mechanism can be a template for a whole way of life in which everything is an option and processing beats choosing

Brands that promote their ethical stance are more likely to attract and retain affluent consumers, according to new research seen exclusively by Marketing Week. Ethical consumers tend to be more affluent than average and are more likely to favour brands that they believe share their green values, according to research by consultancy Goodbrand, seen exclusively […]

Returning home emotionally exhausted at the end of the day is a common phenomenon in modern life. I'm not referring to the rare medical condition called chronic fatigue syndrome, but rather to the exhaustion many people feel at day's end caused by a hard day at work.

Two decades is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but owing to accelerating change we can expect to see the emergence of some fairly disruptive

It can be exhausting and impair judgment.

I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical of what I would like to call Ur-Fascism, or Eternal Fascism. These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other, and are also typical of other kinds of despotism or fanaticism. But it is enough that one of them be present to allow fascism to coagulate around it.

Explore the dynamics of our changing planet over the past three and a half decades.

There are profound cultural differences in how people think about, measure, and use their time. This module describes some major dimensions of time that are most prone to cultural variation.

Adrian Chen on Megan Phelps-Roper, who was a prized daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church until interactions on social media led her to question her faith.

As legions of warriors and prisoners can attest, Stoicism is not grim resolve but a way to wrest happiness from adversity

Marketing to millennials seems to be the big thing these days, but they aren't the only people on this planet. What about marketing to Generation X?

In a dramatic departure, Google is open sourcing software that sits at the heart of its online empire.