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The popular acceptance of professional management theory is now being challenged by two corporate categories that had previously been relegated to its margins: the conglomerate and the family businesses.

Cities thrive when they successfully service our basic needs with intelligence and simplicity. Recovering from 60 years of automobile-focused development and sprawl, urban planners are taking things in the right direction—backwards.

Back to Basics: Culture, Connecting, Camaraderie and Classic Rites of Passage at the Barber Shop

Montreal’s Fitz & Follwell Co. cycle tours have been carefully crafted to allow you to experience the city as the locals do, from the comfort of one of their stylish bikes.

Todd Barket knows retail. His clothing store, Unionmade, has become a benchmark for new men’s retail by catering to gents who know exquisite quality craftsmanship and have an eye for timeless fashion. We have a chat with Todd about reading, reinvention, and, of course, keeping it real.

Where do you go when you’re haunted by a big question? Enter The School of Life, a 21st century forum that is part university, part library and even part church.

Forget your father’s optometry—New York-based Warby Parker has been changing the eyewear game making glasses hip, sexy, literary and even socially responsible in a couple of short years.

What is a product? And what are the broader implications for design when smart, connected products have become the norm? In Megan Neese’s EPIC piece “What is a Product?”, she argues for a product-design methodology rooted in place.

What is the role of IP as a competitive differentiator in a world of data and platforms — the interesting case of Tesla.