In boardrooms across the US and around the world, CEOs and boards face an historically complex task of figuring out what exactly they should be trying to optimize for in their businesses. Are they meant to be agents acting principally — or exclusively — in service of their shareholders with the sole aim of profit […]
Hire significantly expands the firm’s Capital Markets expertise, capabilities and range of client solutions WASHINGTON and HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 3, 2023 — Breakwater Strategy –– a leading strategic communications and insights consultancy –– announced today that Mark Hayes has joined the firm as Partner, significantly expanding the firm’s range of client solutions, particularly in its Capital Markets expertise and capabilities. Hayes brings […]
By Steven Weber, Partner What does it mean in 2022 to be a global firm, and what will it mean as we approach the middle of the decade? In this essay, Steve Weber takes a look back at his most recent book Bloc by Bloc: How to Build a Global Enterprise for the New Regional Order, […]
The long hot summer of 2022 feels like one of the most pessimistic moments in modern history. With reason — we’ve living through a multi-faceted crisis that combines inflation and low economic growth, gun violence at home and a brutal land war in Europe, acute signals of climate change and spiking energy costs, and a […]
Breakwater CEO Arik Ben-Zvi and Partner Steven Weber argue that while Web 3’s blockchain and metaverse technologies promise to disrupt entrenched institutions, enthusiasts and stakeholders must navigate inevitable resistance and political realities in this op-ed for Noema. They emphasize that building trust through transparent risk management, regulatory engagement, and addressing social concerns is crucial for […]
By Arik Ben-Zvi and Steve Weber A shortened version of this piece was originally published in Noema Magazine. When Karl Polanyi wrote The Great Transformation in 1944 he could have hardly imagined that — nearly 80 years later — the story of Web 3 would repeat nearly verbatim the narrative of state-society-market interdependence that he […]
Introduction In our earlier blog post on the development of SAM (Stakeholder Analytics Model) we described some of the thorniest contemporary challenges of developing expert insights around complex policy issues to systematize predictive foresight. With the signal to noise ratio as low as it often seems to be, and the channels for public discourse and influence continuing […]
Breakwater Strategy is developing a structured formal model for stakeholder analytics, which we call SAM (Stakeholder Analytics Model). SAM is designed to help bring together expert insights around complex policy issues and systematize the process of generating ‘predictive foresight’. The goal is to inform strategic conversation and add rigor to decisions aimed at “moving the […]
Weber brings decades of experience in consulting, research and academia as the firm continues to grow and expand its client offering November 5, 2020 (Washington, D.C. and Berkeley, CA) Leading strategic communications and insights consultancy Breakwater Strategy announced today that Prof. Steven Weber has joined the firm as Managing Director. Weber brings over three decades […]