Executive Overview The systematic erosion of local journalism in the United States has crossed a dangerous threshold, transitioning from a slow-motion bleed into an acute systemic emergency. According to a…
Originally adapted from Mark Stenberg’s media industry dispatch, On Background. Executive Overview For the past twenty-five years, the trajectory of media, commerce, and advertising followed a single, unyielding vector: away…
Executive Overview In the fast-moving world of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), the graveyard of startups is littered with ambitious companies that scaled too fast, miscalculated unit economics, or fell victim…
Executive Overview The systematic dismantling of local journalism in the United States reached a grim milestone on September 10, when media giant McClatchy executed a nationwide purge, eliminating more than…
Executive Overview In the lifecycle of a high-performing service business, a deceptive paradox unfolds. Revenue climbs, the headcount expands from a tight-knit core to dozens of regional players, and market…
Executive Overview The fallout from the spring collapse of Christianbook—historically one of the largest direct-to-consumer distributors of Bibles, religious literature, and Christian lifestyle products—has escalated into an industry-wide corporate accountability…
Executive Overview For decades, the closure of a college or university was treated as a rare anomaly—a tragic, isolated failure of a mismanaged institution operating on the fringes of the…
