Business

Courtney L. McCluney, PhD|Essays

Rest as reparations: reimagining how we invest in Black women entrepreneurs

Black women entrepreneurs, who are outpacing other minority business owners, belong at the center of a bold new blueprint for reparations where rest — not production — prevails.

Business

Ellen McGirt|Audio

The New Era of Design Leadership with Tony Bynum

Tony Bynum is bilingual. He can speak the language of both business and design, a skill that makes him a unique leader in our industry.  Tony is the director of the Institute for Design’s new ID Academy, where he is also a professor of practice. Previously, he founded the Northwestern Mutual Design Thinking Center of … Continued

Delaney Rebernik

Black Feminist Fund

The Design Observer Twenty | Sponsored by IDEO The Design Observer Twenty is our curated selection of twenty remarkable people, projects, and big ideas solving an urgent social need. Around the world, Black feminists are the first people tapped for “labor and inspiration” — to save the U.S. democracy, to rally Caribbean nations to fight climate change, to … Continued