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Business, Management, and Marketing
Interviews with scholars of business, management and marketing about their new books.
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…
March 3, 2024
Big Brands Are Watching You
Can brands really support positive social change? In Big Brands are Watching You: Marketing Social Justice and Digital Culture (U California Press, 20…
February 11, 2024
The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs
We speak with Richard Detweiler about his new book The Evidence Liberal Arts Needs: Lives of Consequence, Inquiry and Accomplishment (MIT Press, 2021)…
February 1, 2024
The Historian as a Detective (History & Consulting, Part 1)
Being a historical consultant is like being a detective. In Ep. 6 of "Practical History" I talk to Jackie Gonzales about how her work as a historical…
January 29, 2024
Feeling Lucky
Monte Carlo and Las Vegas have become synonymous with casino gambling. Both destinations featured it as part of a broad variety of leisure and consump…
January 14, 2024
Inside IBM
IBM was the world's leading provider of information technologies for much of the twentieth century. What made it so successful for such a long time, a…
January 10, 2024
Economics in Two Lessons
Trying to follow the key macroeconomic debates that are swirling around DC, CNBC, the WSJ and the NYT? If you are but don't want to go back to graduat…
January 4, 2024
Applying Historical Perspectives to Finance
Before becoming a financial analyst and then a portfolio manager in New York, Daniel Peris worked as a tenure-track professor of Soviet history. I sa…
January 2, 2024
A Brief History of Doom
Richard Vague really really cares about private-sector debt. And he thinks you should too. In A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of Financial …
January 1, 2024
The Secret Life of Groceries
This episode of the New Books in Economic and Business History is an interview with New York writer Benjamin Lorr. Benjamin Lorr is the author of Hell…
January 1, 2024
The Enlightened Capitalists
Is the University of Chicago-blessed, "greed is good" near-term profits approach to business wearing out its welcome? James O'Toole's The Enlightened…