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George Parker

George Parker has spent 40 years on Madison Avenue. He’s won Lions, CLIOs, EFFIES, and the David Ogilvy Award. His latest book is "Confessions of a Mad Man."

The advertising industry has turned its greatest asset, people, into a commodity
Quartz • December 24, 2013
STIFFER MARTINI
Thanks to audit firms, Math Men are taking over Madison Avenue
Quartz • November 8, 2013
SECOND CHANCE FOR LANCE
A disgraced athlete sporting the swoosh? Oops, Nike’s done it again
Quartz • January 20, 2013
NEWS CYCLE
Forgive me, Oprah, for I have sinned: The value of a rehabilitated Lance Armstrong
Quartz • January 15, 2013
BP’s image will recover with millions of PR dollars and your faulty memory
Quartz • November 19, 2012
Lessons from IBM’s near-implosion in the mid-1990s
Quartz • November 9, 2012
CLOUDY SOLUTION
It’s only a matter of time before something else kills our internet
Quartz • November 1, 2012
PAPER OR PLASTIC
Why Newsweek and the Daily Beast failed, while Bloomberg and Businessweek didn’t
Quartz • October 18, 2012
What’s billionaire Phil Anschutz got up his sleeve with the sale of AEG?
Quartz • October 16, 2012
GM: Goodbye Facebook. Hello problems.
Quartz • October 2, 2012