Adam Hanft: Foxconn and the Curious Silence of Social Media
Seduction wins over obligation. Based on the minimal level of visible, practical outrage -- boycotts, petitions, any social storm at all -- it's clear that the manifold pleasures we derive from Apple's products are blinding us.
Adam Hanft: Capitalist Porn – Behind the Fetishization of Super Bowl Commercials
If "advertising is dead," like many say, then the two weeks before the Super Bowl are the kind of mortality that American manufacturing would like to experience.
Adam Hanft: Moody’s Should Shut Its Mouth About U.S. Debt
By wading into the debt reduction battle, Moody's is no longer an entity that analyzes credit risk. It attempts to influence and shape policy. Should a for-profit, public company be threatening the government by saying do this or else?
Adam Hanft: Moody’s Should Shut Its Mouth About U.S. Debt
By wading into the debt reduction battle, Moody's is no longer an entity that analyzes credit risk. It attempts to influence and shape policy. Should a for-profit, public company be threatening the government by saying do this or else?
Adam Hanft: Moody’s Should Shut Its Mouth About U.S. Debt
By wading into the debt reduction battle, Moody's is no longer an entity that analyzes credit risk. It attempts to influence and shape policy. Should a for-profit, public company be threatening the government by saying do this or else?
Adam Hanft: How Marketers Are Stroking Our Egos to Death
The unstoppable epidemic of crowd wisdom, the relentless American Idolization of the land, claimed another victory when Amazon announced it is getting into the movie...
Adam Hanft: In Defense of Spirit Air; Schumer’s Meddling is Good Politics, Bad Government
Sure, carry-on baggage has traditionally been free. But so what? Why should any business be forced to maintain legacy pricing as times radically change and business circumstances dance and morph around it?
Adam Hanft: Google is The New “CorporNation” – Half Company, Half Virtual Government
Value judgments aside, Google is meddling. Its decision to redirect its filtered Chinese search engine to Hong Kong (where consumers now get an unblocked Google.com.hk)...
Adam Hanft: HOW TYLENOL IS DRAGGING DOWN TOYOTA- And the five things Jim Lentz needs to do NOW.
Here are five bold and stretchy things Jim Lentz can and should do right now to show that he is stripping Toyota bare, in public.
Adam Hanft: The U.S. Government Controls GM; Do They Have the Guts to Go After Toyota?
Toyota's massive recall is an unprecedented opportunity for GM to paint a stark contrast between its commitment to making great cars and Toyota's sloppiness in pursuit of global dominance.
Adam Hanft: Addendum to “The Haiti Tragedy: Why Is There Digital Silence?”
As Starbucks has announced: • The Starbucks Foundation is contributing $1M to the Haitian relief efforts. • Additionally, we're mobilizing to leverage the footprint of...
Adam Hanft: The Haiti Tragedy: Why Is There Digital Silence?
A quick scan of the websites of some of our most well-known brands indicates a surprising -- if not shocking -- minimalism in response to the Haiti earthquake.
