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Writer Dorothy Parker sitting.

When Dorothy Parker Got Fired from Vanity Fair

Jonathan Goldman explores the beginnings of the Algonquin Round Table and how Parker's determination to speak her mind gave her pride of place within it.
by Jonathan Goldman via The Public Domain Review on February 6, 2020
Photo of a group of well-dressed professionals is edited to blot out their faces.

How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class

Technocratic management, no matter how brilliant, cannot unwind structural inequalities.
by Daniel Markovits via The Atlantic on February 3, 2020
A Black woman poses with the McDonald's golden arches.

How Fast Food "Became Black"

A new book, "Franchise," explains how black franchise owners became the backbone of the industry.
by Marcia Chatelain, Cynthia R. Greenlee via Vox on January 10, 2020
Four African-Americans in front of a McDonalds restaurant

The Intertwined History of McDonald’s and Black America

In good ways and bad, the Golden Arches have always loomed large in the African American experience.
by Marcia Chatelain via Gen on January 6, 2020
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Citibank: Exploiting the Past, Condemning the Future

In 2011, Citigroup published a 300-page 200th anniversary commemoration Celebrating the Past, Defining the Future. Is it a past to celebrate?
by Alan J. Singer via HNN on November 3, 2019

Editing Donald Trump

What I saw as the editor of “The Art of the Deal,” the book that made the future President millions of dollars and turned him into a national figure.
by Peter Osnos via The New Yorker on November 3, 2019
Picture of the Challenger Tragedy.
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Lessons From the Challenger Tragedy

Normalization of deviance is a useful concept that was developed to explain how the Challenger disaster happened.
via Retro Report on October 29, 2019

State of the Unions

What happened to America’s labor movement?
by Caleb Crain via The New Yorker on August 26, 2019
Milton Friedman.

Milton Friedman Was Wrong

The famed economist’s “shareholder theory” provides corporations with too much room to violate consumers’ rights and trust.
by Eric Posner via The Atlantic on August 22, 2019
multicolor illustration of Gmail icons, iMessage text boxes, reply arrows, and refresh arrows.

Was E-mail a Mistake?

Digital messaging was supposed to make our work lives easier and more efficient, but the math suggests that meetings might be better.
by Cal Newport via The New Yorker on August 6, 2019
Texas oil wells.

Anointed with Oil: Evangelicals and the Petroleum Industry

On the outsized role that Christians have played in the oil business.
by Darren Dochuk, Thomas S. Kidd via The Gospel Coalition on July 16, 2019

Wayward Leviathans

How America's corporations lost their public purpose.
by David Ciepley via The Hedgehog Review on March 1, 2019

Does Journalism Have a Future?

In an era of social media and fake news, journalists who have survived the print plunge have new foes to face.
by Jill Lepore via The New Yorker on January 22, 2019

How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success

With “The Apprentice,” the TV producer mythologized Trump as the ultimate titan, paving his way to the Presidency.
by Patrick Radden Keefe via The New Yorker on December 27, 2018
Apple Macintosh computers sit on double decked manufacturing lines, 1984
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The Undocumented Workers who Built Silicon Valley

Undocumented workers have been foundational to the rise of our most vaunted hub of innovative capitalism.
by Louis Hyman via Made By History on August 30, 2018

How Slavery Inspired Modern Business Management

The connections between the two systems of labor have been persistently neglected in mainstream business history.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal via Boston Review on August 17, 2018

“Google Was Not a Normal Place”

A behind-the-scenes account of the most important company on the Internet, from grad-school all-nighters to extraordinary global power.
by Adam Fisher via The Hive on July 10, 2018

What Dale Carnegie’s “How to Win Friends and Influence People” Can Teach the Modern Worker

Dale Carnegie treated the employee-employer relationship as a sacred, symbiotic bond.
by Jessica Weisberg via The New Yorker on April 2, 2018
A 1994 Grapefruit League game in Vero Beach, FL.

Swinging in the Sun: The History and Business of Spring Baseball

How spring training has become as much about money and business as about playing the game.
by Zoë Jackson via Perspectives on History on March 26, 2018

Labor and the Long Seventies

In the 1970s, women and people of color streamed into unions, strikes swept the nation, and employers launched a fierce counterattack.
by Lane Windham, Chris Brooks via Jacobin on February 25, 2018

Amazon’s Labor-Tracking Wristband Has a History

Jeff Bezos is stealing from a 19th-century playbook.
by Stephen Mihm via Bloomberg on February 23, 2018
Caricature of Mark Twain wearing a barrel with smoke from his pipe making a dollar sign.

Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes

“I am frightened by the proportions of my prosperity,” Twain said. “It seems to me that whatever I touch turns to gold.”
by Alan Pell Crawford via The Paris Review on October 25, 2017

The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing

100 years ago, a mail-order retail giant moved swiftly into the brick-and-mortar business, changing it forever.
by Derek Thompson via The Atlantic on September 25, 2017

On the 40th Anniversary of Youngstown’s “Black Monday,” an Oral History

On September 18, 1977, Youngstown, Ohio, received a blow that it has never recovered from.
by Vince Guerrieri via Belt Magazine on September 19, 2017

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.
by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017

The TV That Created Donald Trump

Rewatching “The Apprentice,” the show that made his Presidency possible.
by Emily Nussbaum via The New Yorker on July 31, 2017

The Poverty of Entrepreneurship: The Silicon Valley Theory of History

How Silicon Valley coopts history for its own autocratic ends.
by John Patrick Leary via The New Inquiry on June 9, 2017
Musicians and producers around a soundboard listening to a recording.

How Stax Records Set an Example for America

Nelson “Little D” Ross talks soul and significance with music historian Robert Gordon.
by Robert Gordon, Nelson Ross via The Bitter Southerner on February 11, 2014
Black family sitting around log cabin, possibly in Florida, 1892.

Plantations Practiced Modern Management

Slaveholding plantations of the 19th century used scientific management techniques—and some applied them more extensively than factories.
by Caitlin C. Rosenthal, Scott Berinato via Harvard Business Review on September 1, 2013
Henry Ford

Ford and the Führer

Ford Motor Company claims its Cologne plant was confiscated by Nazis, but newly discovered documents and correspondence prove otherwise.
by Ken Silverstein via The Nation on January 6, 2000
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