Vigilant Leaders: Paying Attention to What Matters Most
Businessam StaffAugust 16, 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. Contributors: George Day, Wharton marketing professor emeritus, and Paul Schoemaker, founder […]
Questions to Help You Pick Your Next Leader
Businessam StaffAugust 10, 2022
This article was written by Wharton professor emeritus of management Michael Useem. Useem is also director of the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management. You are about to interview three finalists for a senior position in your enterprise. The candidates have all worked for the company for years, and your search committee believes all are […]
How to Measure — and Improve — Labor Productivity
Businessam StaffAugust 10, 2022
The following article was written by professor Christian Terwiesch, chair of Wharton’s operations, information and decisions department and co-director of Penn’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. Terwiesch is also professor of health policy at the Perelman School of Medicine. As labor is becoming more costly and simultaneously emerges as a major bottleneck for many manufacturing and service […]
Why Passive ETFs Are Really Active, and What That Means for Investors
Businessam StaffAugust 2, 2022
Many exchange-traded funds (ETFs) that go by the moniker of “passive” are in fact active, and it is important that investors understand why and the implications, according to a new research paper titled “Steering a Ship in Illiquid Waters: Active Management of Passive Funds,” by experts at Wharton and elsewhere. The so-called passive ETFs get […]
Corporate Good vs. Social Good: Can Investors Have Both?
Businessam StaffJuly 26, 2022
In this episode of All Else Equal: Making Better Decisions, a podcast produced by Stanford Graduate School of Business, hosts Jules van Binsbergen and Jonathan Berk explore what strategies are available to social-minded investors who want to do what’s good for business and what’s good for society. But as van Binsbergen and Berk explain, optimizing […]
How Firms Can Overcome the ‘Paradox of Preparedness’
George DayJuly 19, 2022
By George Day When major threats are looming, but their timing is uncertain, it’s hard for business leaders to make an action plan for dealing with them. Wharton marketing professor emeritus George Day and global management consultant Roger Dennis call it “the paradox of preparedness.” In this essay, they offer four steps to help leaders heed the warning […]
Why Corporate Greed Isn’t Driving Inflation
Businessam StaffJuly 12, 2022
Blame the skyrocketing inflation rate on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Blame it on supply chain problems. Blame it on the pandemic. Just don’t blame it on big businesses that are doing what they need to do to survive, Wharton marketing professor Z. John Zhang said. He’s not buying the notion of “greedflation,” an argument being pushed by […]
How Responsible Research Can Tackle Society’s Toughest Challenges
Businessam StaffJuly 11, 2022
The S&P 500 removed Tesla from its ESG Index last month over the electric automaker’s lack of a low-carbon strategy and questionable business conduct. The move drew ire from CEO Elon Musk, who called ESG metrics “a scam” and “the devil incarnate.” The decision highlights the difficulty in making and meeting requirements around environmental, social, and corporate […]
Succeeding with Hybrid Work: Focus on Five Cs
Businessam StaffJuly 6, 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. Contributor: Martine Haas, professor of management at Wharton and director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management […]
How the Real Economy Gains — and Loses — with Better-informed Investors
Businessam StaffJuly 6, 2022
Making corporate disclosures widely available definitely benefits investors and companies, but it could have unintended downsides, too, according to a recent paper by Wharton finance professor Itay Goldstein, Shijie Yang, assistant professor of accounting at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Luo Zuo, associate professor of accounting at Cornell University. “Broader information dissemination leads to a decrease […]