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Inside a Modern Thai Dining Brand: Culture, Creativity and the Business of Nightlife

Chef Max Wittawat, the executive chef behind New York City’s Bangkok Supper Club, has spent years refining a style of Thai cooking that is both deeply rooted in regional flavor and boldly contemporary. In this Expert Insights Q&A, Wittawat explores how he brings the kinetic energy of Bangkok’s late-night dining scene into one of New York’s most distinctive restaurant experiences, balancing cultural authenticity with constant experimentation, operational discipline and a collaborative creative process.

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Why Pricing Needs a Behavioral Reset in an Era of Rising Costs

Ann Padley and Jenny Millar, co-authors of The Pricing Sprint and leaders of the consultancy Untapped Pricing, explore why many companies are losing value because customers aren’t perceiving their prices as intended. Drawing from their deep expertise in behavioral pricing strategy, Padley and Millar unpack how anchoring, choice architecture and decision simplicity can meaningfully shift purchasing behavior without altering a single price point. In a market defined by rising costs and limited pricing power, the next wave of commercial growth will come from understanding how customers actually make decisions and designing pricing strategies that reflect those real-world behaviors.
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When Positivity Turns Toxic: How Cultures That Silence Dissent Lose Their Edge

Steven D’Souza, educator, executive coach and author of Shadows at Work, examines how enforced positivity has become a hidden liability inside modern organizations. By exploring the consequences of silencing discomfort—from distorted decision-making to eroded psychological safety—he shows why leaders must create environments where candor, complexity and constructive friction can thrive.

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The Broadway Musical Isn’t Dying—It’s Just Changing Keys

Heather A. Hitchens, president and CEO of the American Theatre Wing, examines why the recurring narrative that “the Broadway musical is in trouble” misses the larger transformation underway. Drawing on three decades in performing arts administration—including stewardship of the Tony Awards and major grantmaking, educational and artist-development programs—Hitchens argues that Broadway isn’t facing an artistic decline but a structural evolution, even as its financial model strains to keep pace.

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How Subscriptions and Flexible Ownership Models Are Rewriting the EV Adoption Curve

Rei Vardi, founder and CEO of Eon, examines how subscriptions and flexible ownership models are transforming the EV adoption curve, offering a practical bridge between consumer interest and affordability. Vardi argues that the next wave of adoption will be driven by pragmatic, service-first mobility models that match how people actually live. As charging infrastructure expands and total cost-of-ownership concerns rise, he explains why flexible access is poised to redefine electric driving in 2026 and beyond.

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Why Game Engines Are Becoming A.I.’s Most Important Testbeds

Ilman Shazhaev, founder and CEO of Dizzaract—the largest game development studio in the Middle East—examines how gaming has become the most sophisticated testbed for A.I. Shazhaev argues that the future of generative technology will be defined not by content but by the frameworks that enable creation at scale. He explores why game engines, interactive worlds and player-driven systems are shaping how machines learn to reason, act and imagine.

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The Confidence Trap: How Companies Misjudge Talent—and Lose Their Best Leaders

Professor Ginka Toegel, a leading expert on organizational behavior and leadership at IMD Business School and author of The Confidence Myth, examines why companies continue to confuse confidence with competence, and how that misalignment quietly distorts promotion decisions. By unpacking new data on potential ratings, feedback patterns, and promotion outcomes, Toegel shows that the future of effective leadership development depends on replacing intuition-driven judgments with evidence-based systems that reward actual impact.
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Real Estate’s Last Black Box Is About to Break Open

Blake O’Shaughnessy, a top real estate broker turned tech founder, examines why the housing market still operates behind a wall of inaccessible data, creating a system where buyers and sellers are forced to navigate one of life’s biggest financial decisions with incomplete information. Transparent, accessible housing data, he argues, is the infrastructure shift that will finally modernize real estate and make the market work for the people it’s supposed to serve.