Hacking the City
Michael Bloomberg gets hacking. In a 1995 profile of Bloomberg, the company, Fast Company wrote: His theory is simple: shove lots of well-paid young upstarts (2,200 employees, average age 31) together in a small space for long hours, give them the best equipment possible, and you’ll get magic. It’s fitting then that in his role as [...]
Love is the Single Bottom Line
Over the past several years I’ve followed the evolution of the conversation about Corporate Social Responsibility with great interest. The notion first hit my radar screen when I was an investment banker working with retail companies and apparel manufacturers and Nike was challenged to address working conditions at its factories in Asia. On a trip [...]
Monday’s Miscellany
Fabulous Find Fab.com is a daily deal site à la Gilt, targeting design aficionados. Launched less than two weeks ago, it truly is fab. Beautifully executed–naturally–it features a great mix of small items and serious investment pieces by household name and emerging designers, as well as small, regional artisans. Upcoming sales include mod furniture from [...]
Considering Alexander McQueen
Yesterday I went to the Met to see the Alexander McQueen retrospective Savage Beauty. I thought I might beat the crowds by going first thing on a Tuesday morning. No such luck. One of the guards on duty told me that it’s never not packed, every day from open to close. The exhibit has broken [...]
DIY with Kaiser Chiefs
Clever, smart, attention-grabbing. So goes last Friday’s unexpected release of the new album from Brit indie pop group Kaiser Chiefs. Taking a page from the likes of NikeiD, Converse and Timbuk2, The Future is Medieval was issued on the Kaiser Chiefs’ own web site, and it’s customizable–there are 20 songs to choose from, select your [...]
Monday’s Miscellany
Over the past several weeks a number of items have caught my eye, all worthy of mention, but not necessarily material for an entire article, so I’ve pulled them together here–Monday’s miscellany.
Global Witness’s New Ground
Last week Global Witness–an NGO devoted to ferreting out corrupt use of natural resources in developing countries—got its hands on a management report from the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA) and released it to the press. The LIA is the fund through which the Libyan government invested its oil profits—a Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF). With just [...]
