Navigating Microaggressions at Work
Stephanie CrearyNovember 15, 2022
Wharton management professor Stephanie Creary has been told to smile so often that the directive has become embedded in her subconscious, making her worry about whether she is coming across as an “Angry Black Woman” or a bossy leader to those she interacts with. So powerful is this message, this microaggression, that last year she found herself […]
Why Web3 Won’t Go Mainstream — Yet
Kartik HosanagarNovember 8, 2022
The following article was written by professors Kartik Hosanagar and Myriam Brouard. Hosanagar (@khosanagar) is a Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions and faculty co-lead of AI for Business. He is also the author of A Human’s Guide to Machine Intelligence. Brouard (@professorNFT) is an assistant professor studying the intersection of technology adoption and consumer culture at the Telfer School […]
The 25-Minute Meeting
Donna McGeorgeNovember 8, 2022
Nano Tools for Leaders® — a collaboration between Wharton Executive Education and Wharton’s Center for Leadership and Change Management — are fast, effective tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes, with the potential to significantly impact your success. The Goal Halve the time and double the impact of your meetings. Nano Tool The world of […]
Tracking the Financial Stakes in Curbing Emissions
Arthur van BenthemNovember 1, 2022
Efforts at curbing greenhouse gas emissions could be more effective if energy companies could get a sharp grip on how investors measure climate risk in their portfolios. A recent paper by experts at Wharton and elsewhere published in Nature Energy achieves precisely that: it details how investors and financial professionals incorporate climate risk into their decisions, and how energy […]
How Do You Make a Decision When Every Option Looks Bad?
Erika JamesNovember 1, 2022
The following article was written by Wharton Dean Erika James. Patagonia, the sportswear brand, made headlines this summer when its founder and CEO Yvon Chouinard announced his intention to effectively give away the multi-billion dollar business instead of selling it. Mr. Chouinard, a famously “reluctant” entrepreneur, detailed his decision to an astonished press and media: Patagonia was to […]
Why Livestream Commerce Is on the Rise
Thomas RobertsonOctober 26, 2022
If you’re not selling on social media, maybe you should be. Livestream commerce, in which brands sell their products to online audiences in real time, is one of the hottest trends in retail. The format is growing in popularity, accounting for $200 billion in sales in China and $11 billion in the United States in […]
Hits and Misses of the Fed’s Inflation Strategy
Richard HerringOctober 26, 2022
The Federal Reserve deserves credit for saving the U.S. economy from a financial crisis with its initial response to the pandemic, but it continued injecting liquidity well beyond the point that markets exhibited any signs of illiquidity, said Wharton professor of international banking and finance Richard J. Herring on Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM. (Listen […]
‘Best Countries’ 2022: Who’s Number One?
David ReibsteinOctober 17, 2022
By David Reibstein With its reputation for political neutrality, peaceful civility, and purveying the finer things in life, it should come as no surprise that Switzerland has once again topped the U.S. News and World Report Best Countries list for 2022. Switzerland has claimed the top spot for five of the seven years the […]
What the Andes Miracle Teaches about Adaptive Leadership
Sudev ShethOctober 17, 2022
By Sudev Sheth The following opinion piece was written by Sudev Sheth, a senior lecturer at the Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He teaches perspectives on leadership, entrepreneurship, and global history. When a plane carrying a team of Uruguayan rugby players and their relatives disappeared over the […]
ESG and Cybersecurity Compliance Are Every Employee’s Concern
Leeza GarberOctober 11, 2022
The following opinion piece was written by Wharton legal studies and business ethics lecturer Leeza Garber, Esq., and Allison Jegla, global director of impact at 100 Women in Finance. In late spring 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged an elite investment adviser for “misstatements and omissions” about Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations related to its managed […]