by Lance Loya | Aug 19, 2025 |
For those who grew up in the 80s and 90s, few gestures endeared you more than giving someone a mixtape filled with carefully chosen songs in a cassette case with personalized artwork. An implied message accompanied this gesture: I like these songs and I am sharing...
by Lance Loya | Aug 5, 2025
To teach the potential marketing benefits to rebranding, business schools often turn to the fascinating tale of the Patagonian toothfish. In the late 1970s, a Los Angeles seafood merchant named Lee Lantz happened upon the Patagonian toothfish while shopping at a...
by Lance Loya | Jul 29, 2025
Unless you’ve been marooned on a deserted island, you’re undoubtedly aware that this summer marks the fiftieth anniversary of the original summer blockbuster, Steven Spielberg’s Jaws. Jaws has been everywhere this summer. The original cast and crew have been doing...
by Lance Loya | Jul 15, 2025
In business, financial success boils down to a business’s commitment to product, price, and/or service. Some businesses build their brand around quality of product, some around price, and others around service. For example, Apple focuses on product. Their customers...
by Lance Loya | Jul 1, 2025
Fireworks are a Fourth of July tradition—and they have been since Americans celebrated the first Independence Day way back in 1777. The fireworks on that day were only orange though, not red, white, or blue. It would take inventors another sixty years to discover how...