Artificial Intelligence Will Change How We Think About Leadership
Businessam StaffDecember 14, 2020
The increasing attention being paid to artificial intelligence raises important questions about its integration with social sciences and humanity, according to David De Cremer, founder and director of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at the National University of Singapore Business School. He is the author of the recent book, Leadership by Algorithm: Who […]
Marketing the Future: How Data Analytics Is Changing
Businessam StaffDecember 7, 2020
Data analytics helps marketers learn about their customers with target precision, from the movies they watch on Netflix to their favorite scoop of chocolate ice cream. Data is ubiquitous, essential and beneficial — except when it’s not. Experts warn that data analytics is at an inflection point. Growing concerns about security risks, privacy, bias and […]
How to Be an Inclusive Leader
Businessam StaffDecember 7, 2020
The renewed attention on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the workplace has been enough to fill any manager’s agenda this year. But this is 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has heaped even more pressure on leaders tasked with keeping their employees healthy and safe, while also trying to keep DEI at the top of a […]
Making Good Decisions: A Toolkit
Businessam StaffNovember 30, 2020
Former professional poker player and best-selling author Annie Duke knows a lot about how to make good decisions under tough circumstances. In her new book, How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices, Duke provides a toolkit for readers who want to make smart decisions in any situation. Wharton operations, information and decisions professor […]
Conscious Capitalism: Giving All Stakeholders a Seat at the Table
Businessam StaffNovember 30, 2020
Karl Khoury and Russell Diez-Canseco were on separate journeys to bring more meaning to their personal and professional lives when their paths crossed in 2014. Now, the two businessmen are linked by the common goal of conscious capitalism. Khoury is co-founder and partner at Arborview Capital, a Maryland-based environmental impact investment firm, and Diez-Canseco is […]
How to Get Voters Off the Fence? With a Soft Touch
Businessam StaffNovember 23, 2020
If you want to move a chair, just push it in the direction you want it to go. If you try that approach with people — particularly voters — it probably won’t work so well. “When you push people, they don’t just go along, they push back,” Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger said. “They think […]
How Incubators Help Entrepreneurs Succeed
Businessam StaffNovember 23, 2020
Becoming a successful entrepreneur requires the right combination of factors, impeccable timing and often sheer luck. In her latest research, Wharton management professor Valentina Assenova examines what it takes to help entrepreneurs who need more luck than most — those who live in places where inequality is institutionalized and the obstacles to success are even […]
Artificial Intelligence Will Change How We Think About Leadership
Businessam StaffNovember 16, 2020
The increasing attention being paid to artificial intelligence raises important questions about its integration with social sciences and humanity, according to David De Cremer, founder and director of the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind at the National University of Singapore Business School. He is the author of the recent book, Leadership by Algorithm: Who Leads and Who Follows […]
Startups Are Finding the Sweet Spot in a Downturn
Businessam StaffNovember 9, 2020
It’s counter-intuitive for people to start new businesses in an economic downturn, but startups are prying open new market opportunities that coronavirus pandemic lockdowns have created. New business applications, which is the Census Bureau’s tracker for startups, grew 38% in the week ending Oct. 24, compared with the same week a year ago. The increase […]
Bridging Social Justice and the Financial Markets
Businessam StaffNovember 9, 2020
Publicly traded companies that want to get in good with Adasina Social Capital should know upfront that San Francisco-based advisory firm does its homework on social justice — and it doesn’t grade on a curve. Having a female chief executive officer or women on the board of directors isn’t enough to get included in a […]