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The Trouble with Good Old Sex
by Geoffrey Rowan| May 19, 2015
Marketers have a sex problem. They slather it liberally onto any brand surface where it might stick – the ultimate consumption aphrodisiac. No one gets fired from a marketing job for saying, “sex sells.” But at the same time, they ignore or alienate the source of half of all U.S. household spending because sexy older […]
The World’s Toughest Anti-Spam Law and You: No More Mr. Nice Canuck
by Geoffrey Rowan| June 5, 2014
The caricature of a typical Canadian is hockey-mad and polite to a fault, but that image – true or not – may change when the world’s toughest anti-spam law comes into effect in Canada on July 1. No more Mr. Nice Canuck. The relationship between Canada and the U.S. has been so cozy for so […]
What if “Internet of Things” Doesn’t Include the Privacy Thing?
by Geoffrey Rowan| January 28, 2014
We all got a glimpse of a smarter if not better future at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month in the Nevada desert. Smart cars, smart watches, smart TVs and refrigerators, smart washers and dryers, smart baby clothes, and every other manner of smart device. The problem, as we mark Data Privacy Day today […]
If You Won’t Risk Failing, You’ll Never Create
by Geoffrey Rowan| May 13, 2013
Years ago, I savored the nightly ritual of putting my kids to bed. Packing their freshly bathed and powdered pink limbs into fuzzy, warm sleepers; reading, re-reading and re-reading again the stack of children’s books by the rocking chair, and saying good night to the menagerie of stuffed characters who inhabited the bed with them.
Ice and Whisky: There’s Much to Learn from Century-Old Stories from the South Pole
by Geoffrey Rowan| February 21, 2012
Harvard B School Prof. shows how polar explorers’ world looked like our “new normal” The South Pole has never seen so much traffic, 100 years after Norway’s Roald Amundsen and Britain’s Robert Scott famously (and tragically for Scott) raced to get there first. A steady stream of tourists are making their way to the deep, […]
Occupy Wall Street: You Say You Want a Revolution
by Geoffrey Rowan| November 4, 2011
Changing the world is a messy business, and for the Occupy Wall Street groups camped out in parks and squares around the world, it’s also a cold, damp one. But it can be done. There’s even a pretty good formula for figuring out whether beating a drum and sleeping on the ground is likely to provoke […]
