So, you're driving along and you do a double-take. You've never seen a roadside fruit stand like this before. The dark-haired girl in the thin, flowing dress has a very interesting marketing plan. Drive up service. She approaches each car slowly, letting the wind blow her dress open so her...

"Trial by Fire" - Guest host and Professor of Economics, Dr. Terry J. Lovell interviews best selling author J. A. Jance about her new book, 'Trial by Fire.' The 'Professor of Freedom' Dr. Terry J. Lovell is a tenured full Professor of Business and Economics at Yavapai College in...

It may seem that big problems require big solutions, but ad man Rory Sutherland says many flashy, expensive fixes are just obscuring better, simpler answers. To illustrate, he uses behavioral economics and hilarious examples.

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In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as Walter Vale, a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose...

This week: E3 blowout, with discussion of the Microsoft, Nintendo, and Sony press conferences. Plus, a review of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and a remake of Footloose? It's the Totally Rad Show Episode 17: "Tandiego" the one in which Dan lets the kids dance, Alex should work in...

An emergency springs up when Gene is about to lose the Indy Racing League marketing account worth millions of dollars. He drops everything and even uses his celebrity to become Grand Marshall in front of hundreds of thousands of fans. Unfortunately for Gene, while he's gone Shannon buys Sophie...

With humor and persistence, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock dives into the hidden but influential world of brand marketing, on his quest to make a completely sponsored film about sponsorship. (And yes, onstage naming rights for this talk were sponsored too. By whom and for how much? He'll tell you.)

Economics writer Tim Harford studies complex systems -- and finds a surprising link among the successful ones: they were built through trial and error. In this sparkling talk from TEDGlobal 2011, he asks us to embrace our randomness and start making better mistakes.

Padma Venkataraman is changing the lives of thousands of Indians by helping to create sustainable communities through micro finance - allowing leprosy-affected people access to loans so they can begin to earn a living on their own. In 2007 Aviva, the savings, investments and insurance group,...