Dominique Olivier
Playing the Art Market: A Fool’s Gambit?
Investing in art is harder than investing in stocks. Welcome to the world of alternative assets, where a Banksy artwork was "created" live at an auction. This is just one of the crazy stories in the world of art values. Dominique Olivier paints this picture for us.
Dominique Olivier
What ChatGPT can teach us about first mover disadvantage
ChatGPT may have taken AI from obscurity into the headlines, but will they suffer from first mover disadvantage? Dominique Olivier delves into this phenomenon.
Dominique Olivier
Lego: brick by brick, a private company masterpiece
Lego is one of the most important companies in the world. It is also still owned by the founding family, a wonderful tale of building a legacy business. Dominique Olivier tells the story of Lego.
Dominique Olivier
Cancel culture: new methods, same principles
With the Donald Trump assassination all over the headlines, the iconic photo of the event reminded Dominique Olivier of a famous painting from the French Revolution. That got her thinking: is cancel culture really a new thing? Or just a social media equivalent of old habits?
Dominique Olivier
Stigler’s Law: Whose idea is it anyway?
Stigler's Law tells us that no scientific discovery is ever named after its original discoverer. Of course, even Stigler himself didn't come up with this idea. Dominique Olivier delves into the concept of originality and whether it really exists at all.
Dominique Olivier
Short Stories v.02: Businesses behaving badly
Business behave badly - and far too often. In this collection of short stories, Dominique Olivier digs into examples from Amazon, Domino's and Nestlé.
Dominique Olivier
Blue: the colour of money
The colour of money isn't green. No, it's blue - historically the rarest and most expensive pigment. But just like the colour has shown us, rarity can change. Supply and demand is a powerful thing, like we've seen in cocoa recently. Dominique Olivier digs into the history of blue pigments and why royal blue exists.
Dominique Olivier
Trends that end: businesses with short shelf lives
EskomSePush is a perfect example of a business that was built around what seems to have been a transient problem: loadshedding. It's not the first or only example, with Dominique Olivier digging into how some businesses perish and others pivot.
