From erotic to romantic to mimetic desire—in this Living Room Session, we will explore the many different forms of desire and how they affect business.

With Luke Burgis, author of the upcoming book Wanting, and other guests.

Connect with other Residents, discuss beautiful (business) questions, and explore House initiatives and other collaboration opportunities.

Connect with other Residents, discuss beautiful (business) questions, and explore House initiatives and other collaboration opportunities.

Beauty was once an intrinsic value used to describe the ultimate ambition for what humanity could be: the good life was a beautiful life. Today, beauty’s deeper meaning seems lost to all but a handful of philosophers and art historians.

This public Living Room Session calls for a new aesthetic, emotional, ethical, and cultural movement to place beauty back at the center of our lives. With Shakti Maira, author of The Promise of Beauty and Why It Matters, and other guests. Hosted in partnership with The VoV.

Save the date! Registration opens soon.

Extended Reality (or short, XR) is the umbrella term for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality technologies. Augmented or immersive experiences raise critical issues of identity and physical and psychological integrity, and serve as focal lenses for essential ethical conundrums of digital technology in general. What can we learn about the human condition in XR? How can we create XR experiences that are conscious and inclusive? And specifically, what are the ethical frameworks we need to develop to that effect?

Join a special Living Room Session hosted by the House of Beautiful Business in partnership with IEEE, featuring journalist, historian, and podcast host Kent Bye; Monique Morrow, the president and co-founder of Humanized Internet, a non-profit with a focus on digital identity and ethics in technology; and tech ethicist Mathana.

Hosted by Monika Jiang, Tim Leberecht, and John C. Havens, executive director of The IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.

Thursday, October 28 – Monday, November 1, 2021

Over the course of five days, the annual festival of the House of Beautiful Business will take place as both a virtual and IRL event with a diverse array of online programming, an exclusive Lisbon Gathering, and local Chambers of Beautiful Business hosted by our global community of Residents. With the theme “Concrete Love” we will bring together thousands of people from all over the world to build more beautiful economies, organizations, and lives.

Join the House of Beautiful Business to discuss the future of attention with tech psychologist Linda Stone; raptivist Aisha Fukushima; and journalist Andrian Kreye. Plus: Music and other distractions!

Inaugural Resident Circle Option 2

Connect with other Residents, discuss beautiful (business) questions, and explore House initiatives and other collaboration opportunities.

Inaugural Resident Circle (Option 1)

Connect with other Residents, discuss beautiful (business) questions, and explore House initiatives and other collaboration opportunities.

...and business with love. From the abstract to the concrete, rebuilding Beirut, relationships at work, and demystifying female sexuality with tech, we begin with small acts that lead towards more beautiful businesses and lives.

With Zeid El Amine, Elaine Kasket, and Anna Lee, hosted by Till Grusche, Megan Hustad, and Monika Jiang

In 2020, talk of strategy quickly became a joke in the face of the pandemic. This year, strategy may mount a comeback, but it will need to adapt to the new not-knowingness of it all.

As Martin Reeves of BCG would say, “Your strategy needs a strategy.” In this Living Room Session, we dived into strategy with him and fellow strategists Boris Dolkhani, vice president corporate marketing, Bosch; Barbara Martin Coppola, chief digital officer, IKEA (Ingka Group); young chess prodigy and U.S. national chess champion Oliver Boydell; and Rahaf Harfoush, author, Hustle & Float, to debate which strategy frameworks can propel us forward and which we can leave out on the curb.

Hang out with the House of Beautiful Business. Discuss the topics of the week, meet beautiful minds, and celebrate with poetry, piano, and panache.

This week: What has strategy to do with desire? And magic?

Hosted by Megan Hustad, Monika Jiang, and Tim Leberecht, with Luke Burgis, Gianfranco Chicco, Tex Drieschner, and Rubens Filho.

With vaccinations underway, will there be conferences and festivals again this fall? Will we ever return to gathering the way we used to? Should we? We discussed this question with event organizers, curators, and experience designers.

Our workplaces have exploded and are accelerating outward. The House of Beautiful Business and friends discussed on Clubhouse whether we must all become curators, experience designers, and moderators now.

With Liane Al Ghusain, founder, The Scribes; Dorie Clark, bestselling author and executive education professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business; Rahaf Harfouch, strategist, digital anthropologist, and bestselling Author, Hustle & Flow; Christian Knoerle, head of company building, Porsche; Cherae Robinson, founder and CEO, Tastemakers Africa; and others.