Shoppers Drug Mart is no doubt an iconic brand here in Canada. With over 1200 retail outlets across the country, Canadians can count on...

CBC’s recent revelations about employee aggressive sales behaviour at the big banks represent a significant crack in the golden halo that...

Many of us are interested in explaining and predicting why organizations behave in the way that they do, and how that behavior influences...

Business strategy scholar Michael Porter recently presented a TED Talk entitled “Why business can be good at solving social problems”. ...

The scientific community has reached a consensus that the build-up of heat-trapping emissions from burning fossil fuels and clearing...

Naomi Klein's No Logo has become a rather influential book that discusses the growing presence of advertisements and branding in society...

A free market isn’t the same as “freedom.” In several blog posts, I’ve heavily criticized the conservative perspective that naively – and...

Let’s talk about the academic publishing industry. Or, as I like to refer to it, knowledge hoarders! I’m an academic. It is my job to...

A fundamental assumption underlying economic theory is that the market, through consumer choice, represents the most efficient mechanism...

This week my students wrote their midterm exams. The exams only take up half of the class, so I used the rest of the class to discuss...