Speak With Confidence: Four Fixes That Work
Jonah Berger
May 9, 2023
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton’s Jonah Berger shares four tips for confident communication in the workplace. 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 […]
How Reshoring Will Restore the Drug Supply Chain
Ezekiel EmanuelMay 9, 2023
Drug shortages are a persistent problem, but they don’t have to be, according to Penn’s Ezekiel (Zeke) Emanuel. He believes reshoring drug manufacturing will make America less dependent on fragile foreign supply chains. Drug shortages are rampant across much of Europe and the United States, where more than 100 medications, from antibiotics to inhalers […]
Finding the Model That Captures Investment Risks, but Not Mispricing of Assets
Robert StambaughApril 25, 2023
The latest Wharton-Jacobs Levy “Best Paper” shows fund managers a way to isolate mispricing of securities to weigh the role of risks. Trying to accurately project the return on your investment has never been easy, which of course explains why some win big, and some lose, in the stock markets. As the stakes get […]
Speak With Confidence: Four Fixes That Work
Jonah BergerApril 25, 2023
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton’s Jonah Berger shares four tips for confident communication in the workplace. 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, […]
Valuing Human Capital: How Small Changes Could Help Firms
Daniel TaylorApril 19, 2023
In the past few decades, the global economy has gone through a fundamental transformation, whereby the bulk of value is no longer generated by physical assets such as machinery, buildings, and computers; today, knowledge, skills, competencies, and people are at the core of value creation. And yet, legacy accounting rules have not kept pace with […]
Win the Race for Higher Risk-adjusted Stock Returns
Nikolai RoussanovApril 18, 2023
In his latest book, ‘Magic Words,’ Wharton marketing professor Jonah Berger explains how subtle changes in the language we use can have a big impact on persuading others. The more risk you take with your investment bets, chances are you can earn more returns than other investors — so goes an old maxim in […]
Does Money Buy Happiness? Here’s What the Research Says
Chris IkosaApril 11, 2023
The following article was originally published on Penn Today. Are people who earn more money happier in daily life? Though it seems like a straightforward question, research had previously returned contradictory findings, leaving uncertainty about its answer. Foundational work published in 2010 from Princeton University’s Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton had found that day-to-day happiness rose as annual income increased, but […]
How to Avoid Burnout for Shift Workers
Alon Bergman, Guy David, Hummy SongApril 11, 2023
Unpredictable schedules are so disruptive to the lives of employees that even 30 days of high shift variability in a year increases the chances a worker will quit by 20%, according to a new study from Wharton experts. Employers use just-in-time scheduling to cover peak demand and raise both productivity and profits, but they may […]
How to Bring Your Cultural Identity to Work
Rachel ArnettMarch 28, 2023
The popular advice to “bring your whole self to work” is hard for minority employees. If they share too much about their cultural background, they risk being professionally penalized or socially ostracized by the majority. To play it safe, many minority employees downplay their differences in the workplace. But a new study from Wharton management […]
How India’s CSR Experience Can Shape ESG Strategies
Aline GatignonMarch 28, 2023
In 2013, India enacted a pioneering mandate that required companies above a certain size, revenue or profit threshold to invest 2% of their net profits on corporate social responsibility (CSR) projects every year. A recent paper that identified patterns of CSR investments after the law was enacted holds pointers for other countries that may consider […]