Patrick Marren speculates about the US economy and whether it will recover, following the uncertainty due to terrorism in the West, occurring after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks of 11 September.

Patrick Marren analyzes Louis Gerstner’s account of his revival of IBM in the mid-1990s, as well as what the phrase “business strategy” actually does and does not mean.

Patrick Marren discusses how September 11 changed the way strategic planners must look at their companies’ futures.

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This article examines first principles of “business strategy” in a way that most of us are unconscious of normally.

A review of the importance of mass shared beliefs in shaping economies, markets, nations, and business strategies.

A demonstration of the perils of prediction in a unique way.

Patrick Marren discusses systems of categorization – what do you do when something doesn’t quite fit?

I do not know quite what to call this new era.  But one possible distinguishing feature of it may be the new prominence of the political over and above the purely economic.  

The advertising-media symbiosis by which advertising firms have for a century or more placed ads in newspapers, on television, and on the radio seems to be breaking down.