COVID-19 and the future of business
The pandemic is a transformative global event, requiring fresh thinking.
Insights
The Social Dilemma and platforms on The Future, This Week
This week: The Social Dilemma, our first movie review on The Future, This Week. We bring in everything we’ve learnt about social media over the past three years.
Facebook’s virtual reality push is about data, not gaming
Facebook’s Oculus Quest 2 headset is the latest step in the construction of a 'mirrorworld' built on high-tech surveillance and targeted advertising.
Xiaohongshu (Little RED Book) and social commerce on The Future, This Week
This week: in a special on social commerce in China, we talk to our guest Kishi Pan about the unique experience of Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book.
Influencers on Corona Business Insights
Influencers in a pandemic: from struggling after travel lockdowns and marketing cuts to thriving in a world of online experiences.
GPT-3 AI and clean meat on The Future, This Week
This week: the media hype around AI writing essays, and how to make clean meat innovation palatable.
Don’t furlough the ad budget
Why should brands take a scalpel rather than a meat cleaver to the marketing budget?
The business of vaccines on Corona Business Insights
The business of vaccines: investment, research risks, pricing, manufacturing, and distributing a COVID-19 vaccine.
Epic, Apple and Fortnite on The Future, This Week
This #Fortnite: the epic #Epic #Apple battle.
Private capital owned companies have an advantage in times of crisis
Crises like COVID-19 bring with them uncertainty from which new behaviours will emerge.
Using crisis as an opportunity for transformation – lessons from the GFC for higher education
12 valuable lessons from the 2008 financial crisis and how to apply those lessons to the upheaval of COVID-19.
What are the global megatrends that shape our future?
Latest podcasts
The Social Dilemma and platforms on The Future, This Week
This week: The Social Dilemma, our first movie review on The Future, This Week. We bring in everything we’ve learnt about social media over the past three years.
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Xiaohongshu (Little RED Book) and social commerce on The Future, This Week
Influencers on Corona Business Insights
GPT-3 AI and clean meat on The Future, This Week
The business of vaccines on Corona Business Insights
Epic, Apple and Fortnite on The Future, This Week
The greater good on Corona Business Insights
TikTok, WeChat and the fragmented internet on The Future, This Week
The watch industry on Corona Business Insights
Resources
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We have carefully curated lists of resources on the most interesting and important topics.
The latest from the COVID-19 business impact dashboard
The Future of Power
Our new series produced in collaboration with the Sydney Policy Lab.
The Future of Power is a new podcast series of discussions and interviews with thought leaders and acclaimed academics on how the nature of power is changing in the 21st century.
James Crabtree on India’s billionaire raj
With the rise of a billionaire superclass from the austere remnants of India’s state socialism, how will India handle rising inequality?
Joseph Stiglitz on the age of inequality
Joseph Stiglitz says our rising level of inequality is not the unfortunate by-product of economic development but is the result of deliberate policy choices. Who is making those choices?
Jonathan Haidt on good intentions and bad ideas
Internationally acclaimed US academic and author Jonathan Haidt is warning of a rising generation of social-media addicted, pathologically anxious ‘Gen Z’ youths.
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