Research & Society
By Finn Raben & Laurent Flores During my evolution and development as a working researcher, it was a fundamental requirement that when providing a client with research results, the findings be presented as possible actions...
Why Cultural Stuff Matters
Culture speaks to us of our identity, our relationships and our behaviours. It drives and shapes our needs and wants. Yet as researchers, we rarely bother to look into this cultural world: the place where...
Sending It Home
Oversees foreign workers provide significant shares of the national income in many countries, but they're a sector commonly overlooked by marketeers and a lot of work is needed to to understand their potential to affect...
The Asian Arab Spring
Asia’s Arab spring has been so long and peaceful that we hardly noticed it. It has been spring in Asia for about 25 years now – and it is still not quite summer yet....
Environmentalism in Asia
The dominance of a new middle class in India and China presents a challenge for environmental organisations. As billions of Asians set their sights on a Western lifestyle, how can an organisation like Greenpeace break...
Towards an Idle Simplicity of Luxury
The perception of luxury is changing. In this philosophical article, Luigi Toiati addresses this new direction. A shift towards a more internal paradigm, a private, less ostentatious form of luxury. Here Luigi talks about this...