Books & Education

The 19th century free Black town of Weeksville, in Brooklyn, speaks to New York City’s past, present and future, says the site’s President and CEO Dr. Raymond Codrington. By Chanel Caraway and Carlton Wilkinson.

Three thousand years post-Homer, instruments far keener than the human eye guide our navigation. Yet an increasingly popular term for guidance of every kind nowadays is North Star.

The fate of the global economy does not rest on the US election, says Dr. Moyo. “It’s bad, whatever happens.” By Kevin Helliker.

Maria Conceição’s journey has taken her to seven continents and the summits of Everest, toward the goal of bringing education to some of the world’s poorest children.

Famed explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes talks to Alex Blake-Milton about the discipline needed to achieve a goal no other has done.

Professor Tensie Whelan, Director of the Center for Sustainable Business at NYU’s Stern School of Business, talks about the need to reshape corporate leadership for the future.

With the explosion of AI in the workforce, tech education company Decoded is having one of its biggest years yet. Brunswick’s Kirsty Cameron talks with their CEO, Kathryn Parsons.

In Gatsby, the beauty of the American Dream competes successfully with the mendacity of it, perhaps because Gatsby’s ugly fate is no match for the narrator’s poetic ode to the American Dream.

The alchemy of creating virtual communities has been at the heart of Amber Atherton’s career as an entrepreneur, investor and author. By Kirsty Cameron.

CEOs and business leaders are having to take decisions with potential life or death consequences. Andrew Roberts explores how Winston Churchill was shaped by pandemic, and what lessons his leadership holds.

Co-authors Kenji Yoshino and David Glasgow think people would be more eager to be allies in DEI conversations if they weren’t so afraid of saying the wrong thing.

Sebastian Mallaby, author of "The Infinity Machine," asks that question with regard to the book’s subject, Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind. Mallaby talks about the challenges of AI with Brunswick’s Michael Fitzpatrick.