Gender Trouble at Nonprofits
Dan Pallotta is the creator of the AIDSRides and the three-day breast cancer walk. He is the author of Uncharitable from Tufts University Press and is a weekly blogger on nonprofit sector issues for the Harvard Business Review Online.
Seven out of 10 nonprofit workers are female. Charity expert Dan Pallotta argues that sexism is holding back the entire sector, preventing nonprofits from adopting aggressive business practices.
It turns out that in between commercials of the Super Bowl, they play some kind of a football championship. At least that's the way many viewers-and advertisers-see the NFL's biggest night. And at $3 million for a 30-second spot this year-the highest amount ever paid-it's little wonder the Bud Bowl has often had a more exciting finish than the actual game. The Daily Beast rewinds the videotape to find the biggest commercial successes (and failures) of the past 43 years.
De Beers: Diamonds Are a Recession's Best Friend
Adam Hanft is a decoder of the consumer culture and our branded planet. He blogs for The Huffington Post and FastCompany.com. He is also the co-author of Dictionary of the Future and is founder and CEO of the marketing and branding firm Hanft Raboy. Follow him at Twitter.com/hanft.
In a marketing gambit more dazzling than their product, De Beers touts diamonds as the cure for evil consumerism.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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