Angela Collins, December 2021 Consider these recommendations for approaching fresh DE&I goals in the year ahead. What a year it’s been: a pandemic, a lockdown, record unemployment, continued racial reckoning, protests, an attack on the capital, inflation, an expanding wealth gap, an abortion rights struggle and fraying civil discourse. All...
Steve McGrath, December 2021 Messaging can be tough, and it’s easy to get stuck. Whether you’re working on a company introduction, product launch, or messaging revamp, I suggest you can blow through writer’s block by writing these eight letters across the whiteboard: WHO CARES? The answer, very often, is no...
Angela Collins, January 2021 DEI and the Biden-Harris Administration The Georgia Senate run-off elections have placed an increasingly scrutinizing eye on diversity in America, and how businesses and communities respond. The state of Georgia is selecting its representatives against the backdrop of demands from the previous administration to erode and invalidate...
Frank White, October 2020 The question is no longer if humanity should expand into other parts of the solar system, but only how we undertake this critical migration. We have to do it right and we need to do it soon. We must be clear in doing so that...
INTRODUCTION In March 2019, news broke of “Operation Varsity Blues,” an investigation led by the U.S. Attorney’s office in Massachusetts which resulted in charges against 53 individuals, mostly parents who had paid to gain an advantage for their sons or daughters applying to selective colleges. The news attracted a great...
Angela Collins, January 2020 Embracing employees and other constituencies of all colors, creeds and gender orientations affects internal culture and the bottom line—and it requires full commitment at all levels. The question is pretty much settled: Diversity and inclusion are good for business. The results are being documented in marketing,...
Scott Beaudoin, December 2019 It’s marketing 101 for consumer companies: What you stand for is as important as what you sell. One in three consumers choose brands based on their social and environmental impact, a rate that’s probably climbing. When a consumer company’s values align with its customers’ values, it’s...
It seems that not a week goes by without an announcement by some large institution that its data has been compromised. Most know about hacks at major megabrands like eBay, Equifax, Target and Uber. But the challenges from hackers and trolls don’t stop there. Today they even target our political...
Frank White, October 2018 Hiawatha Bray, a columnist for the Boston Globe, recently wrote an eye-opening article about entrepreneurial space companies in New England. According to Bray, New England, which has been on the leading edge of the computer and biotech revolutions, is starting to seize on another big opportunity:...
As with computing and internet businesses, only the strong will survive. A key facet of strength is having an identity that investors, customers and the public can instantly grasp. Too many great companies toil in obscurity of their own making while waiting for their genius to be discovered. They eventually...