When a consumer brand sets an entirely new benchmark, you know they’re on to something big. Very big. This is the case with Nolah, an entrepreneurial, technology and cause-driven mattress company spurring a marketplace movement with a distinctive—and decidedly successful—business model that’s resonating in today’s modern, more empowered marketplace. This “sleeper” turned industry pioneer is […]
2017: A Year of Acute Uncertainty For Business – RiskMap 2017 from Control Risks
Challenge to globalisation and free trade highlighted by US election and Brexit referendum ushers in year of heightened strategic uncertainty for business The distinction for businesses between perceived safe domestic markets and foreign ones rife with challenges has become marginal as risks increasingly come home through political, cyber and terrorism threats A US-led brake on […]
COMMITTED TO THE BEAUTY OF REALITY: KATE MAHON
The images are breathtaking. They are shocking and beautiful at the same time. The photographs might excite you or make you angry…possible even frighten you but they most assuredly intrigue you. This is the difference between simply taking a lovely photo and art. The challenge of photography can be described as framing the content in […]
Gas Drilling Vs. Drinking Water: New York City Consultant’s Report Sets Stage for Fight With Alban
EDT NYC mayoral candidate William Thompson criticized the state’s tentative proposal to allow drilling in the watershed. Mayor Bloomberg’s office said water safety is "not a fringe issue for this administration." Photo credit: Water drop (WikiCommons/Sven Hoppe), Mayor Bloomberg (Stephen Chernin/Getty Images), William Thompson (Reuters/Patrick Andrade) A preliminary report [1] from a consultant hired by […]
Pakistan On The Long Road To Freedom
Two events in the last three months have radically changed the course of Indo-Pak relations, and have the potential to radically alter the future direction of South Asian history. The first of these events took place on November 24, 2007. On this day, a suicide bomber detonated himself beside a bus at the entrance of Camp […]
Welcome, Fracking!
For Okies a beautiful September morning became much less beautiful after the state of emergency declaration caused by rather sensible earth shocks. However such phenomena have become a practice for them. They experienced 226 more than 3.0 magnitude earthquakes in just the first two and a half months of 2016. So it is no surprise […]