Is understanding young people the key to building better relationships between financial institutions and consumers?

To what extent does the metaverse mark the next paradigm shift in how we work, play, and learn as humans?

Is strategy becoming a lost art? We speak to Roger Martin, one of the most influential minds in business and a trusted strategy advisor to global CEOs on the sorry state of strategy today and what we can do about it

Big, small, and connected – do brands still matter? We unpack what the latest thinking in social science and neuroscience can tell us about the connection between people and brands.

How can a more social and cultural understanding of mental health offer better solutions to care?

How getting fans wrong led to chaos in European football, and what we have learned about getting fans right.

This podcast explores “selection bias” by interviewing a conspiracy theory debunker and a conspiracy theorist.

Applied ethnography still struggles with the fundamental challenges of framing research to obtain ‘thick’ data, making sense of data in teams and with clients, and making a convincing case with data in challenging environments.

Christian Madsbjerg talked about the power of observing and listening in a recent guest lecture at Princeton.

Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen, authors of The Moment of Clarity, in conversation with Tim Sullivan, editorial director of Havard Business Review. Here, Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen discuss the need for the human sciences to help businesses innovate in contexts of great uncertainty.

In The Moment of Clarity, Christian Madsbjerg and Mikkel Rasmussen examine the business world’s assumptions about human behavior and show how these assumptions can lead businesses off track. But the authors chart a way forward.

Sometimes an item’s value is tied to the item itself: Other times its value comes from the circumstances around its creation, acquisition, or backstory.

In applied ethnographic praxis, how should we use theory? Exploring how existing theory from a variety of domains has supported and advanced our work, this paper justifies and demonstrates how theory can be used in an accessible and practical manner when framing research and analyzing experience in the field.

Trump tapped into rural America’s community-first structures and values, as well its individualistic and personal dynamics of everyday social interaction.

Prof. Taylor Carman of Columbia University gave our staff a course on Heidegger's thinking.

Contrary to the “eureka” hypothesis, the best ideas take days and years of digging into a subject and pursuing hunches that emerge.

“Deep listening means dwelling long enough at the unfamiliar, until something jumps out as meaningful”

A ReD study finds that offering kids more opportunities for unstructured play is healthy.