In this Design Nation interview, Rupali Steinmeyer, Managing Director at MetaDesign, shares how social media increases the accessibility of designs and what it means for brands in their storytelling. She gives her perspective on cultural understanding in design, design-thinking as a business strategy, and the importance of preparedness to launching a successful career.
Read MoreIn this Design Nation interview, Clark Goolsby, Chief Creative Officer at Chase Design Group, shares how he started his design career at Chase and is a leader at this agency that focuses on innovative brand-building. He believes the biggest challenges facing his industry today are the shift in consumer behaviors brought on by the pandemic, navigating the intersection of art and business, and sustainability.
Read MoreThe booming startup scene has also introduced concepts of interconnected work-life management that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. While part of this evolution is undoubtedly part of the regular adaptation of the workplace to modern expectations and technological advances, a different component and its place in the workspace has changed profoundly: time.
Read MoreIce coverage in Arctic regions is decreasing, causing the size of the oceans expand, which gives way to potential new routes of travel. Within the Arctic, we have seen the Northern Sea Route (NSR) open, creating alternative lanes for global trade. Summer Journalism Fellow Joe Strong analyzes how countries with ports at the ends or along the NSR will be impacted. The ability to use the Arctic would shorten and reroute many of the most internationally favoured trade routes, which primarily travel through the Suez and Panama Canals.
Read MoreOliver Maltby, Executive Creative Director at Interbrand, explains how he generates the creative reputation of Interbrand in different types of markets all over the world and what differentiates the creative markets in the UK, Australia, and the US from each other. After sharing how sculpture and architecture inspire his work, he also discusses “greenwashing,” and explains what designers can do in order to bring socially conscious discussions to light so that companies don’t shy away from it.
Read MoreIn a video interview, Business Today’s Arjun Jagjivan talks with James Bell, COO of Global Operations at Alliance Abroad, about reimagining the future of the company and creating a more inclusive culture.
Read MoreGary Briggs, former CMO of Facebook and current Digital Director for the Bloomberg Presidential Campaign, ended day two of the International Conference in a fireside chat with Neel Ajjarapu, the President of Business Today. Briggs reflected on his career path, which led him from the world of politics to the world of marketing, and in a strange way, back to politics again.
Read MoreIn a video interview, Howell goes more in depth on his career path and the impact of technology and globalization on his role as CFO at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Read MoreTom Wilson, Head of Marketing & Commercial Excellence for Crop Science at Bayer, has always been drawn to marketing as a space for creativity and business acumen. Luckily, growing up in St. Louis, Tom was surrounded by inspiration from local retail giants like Anheuser-Busch and Nestle Purina PetCare.
Read MoreWith stories like BREXIT, trade wars, and the rise of nationalism inundating the daily news, it’s hard not to ask the question: is globalization dead? The rapid decline of global foreign direct investment, nationalist parties roiling politics in the European Union, and the weakening of global trade for the first time since the Great Recession intimate that this could be the end of an era. Yet all the while, blockchain is sending us an entirely different signal: hang on, because globalization is very much alive and well.
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Before entering the traditional workforce, Lisa Utzschneider started her life after college in the Peace Corps teaching English in Bulgaria after the Berlin Wall fell. It’s unsurprising, then, that she’s constantly led every role she has had with an eye toward global impact. Now CEO of Integral Ad Science, Lisa oversees a technology company focused on digital advertising, which has become ever more pertinent in an increasingly connected online world.
Read MoreGlobalization, the new era buzzword, is easy to see in our world, but the extent of its elusive effects is not so easy to ascertain. Nevertheless, it is increasingly difficult to operate with a pigeon-holed view of the world, and we must start to combine different skill sets and knowledge in order to ride this wave. Mr. Lloyd Howell speaks to a progressively collaborative and geo-politically and technologically sensitive method of approach, with his own pathway a reflection of what globalization values.
Read MoreAt the 45th International Conference, Business Today had the pleasure of speaking with Frederico Menino, a Schwarzman Scholars admissions officer, and Sarah Mortell, a graduate of the program, on how interested candidates can apply and how the program has evolved since its creation.
Read MoreChina’s economic strength has inspired Beijing’s totally new foreign policy, with the target of increasing its trade relationships on all continents.
Read MoreSchwarzman Scholars is an internationally renowned scholarship program that allows selected students to enroll in Tsinghua University under Schwarzman College.
Read MoreWhen Jason Stevens is conducting business in Japan as CEO of Mitsubishi International Corporation, he is careful to make sure that his phrasing, his body language, and his observance of protocol comport with the subtlety and precision that characterize Japanese business culture.
Read MoreAt Training the Street, CEO Scott Rostan places an emphasis on the importance of communicative skills.
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