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How Do We Manage Remote Work?

How Do We Manage Remote Work? Wharton management professor Matthew Bidwell doesn’t care for research that isn’t practical. If it can’t provide insight or help solve some of the most difficult problems in business, then there’s not much point. “We want it to be right, and we want to really understand what…Read More

Can AI Make You a Better Manager?

Can AI Make You a Better Manager? AI can enhance the employee experience if managers learn how to use it well, Wharton professors say. While workers are looking at AI to boost their productivity, so are managers. Wharton professors Matthew Bidwell and Sonny Tambe join Eric Bradlow, vice dean of…Read More

Brokered Careers: The Role of Search Firms in Managerial Career Mobility

Contributors: Wharton People Analytics Faculty Director Matthew Bidwell, Kira Choi & Isabel Fernandez-Mateo We explore how career paths are shaped by the involvement of search firms in hiring. Drawing on theories of market intermediation, we argue that search firms constrain horizontal moves across functions and industries by favoring workers from…Read More

John Amaechi & Alicia Menendez: Making Work More Inclusive | 2022 Wharton Future of Work Conference

“From Intent to Impact: How Can We Create A More Inclusive Future?” In this personal and profound conversation with Alicia Menendez, John Amaechi moves past the question of why DEI matters to helping us all develop the skills that are essential to creating and sustaining inclusion, especially in the context…Read More

Charles Duhigg & Chike Aguh: Hiring for Talent vs. Skills | 2022 Wharton Future of Work Conference

“Talent vs. Skills: Shifting Who and How We Hire to Create the Workforce We Need” Chike Aguh has never met a CEO who feels like they are meeting all their talent needs – yet so many organizations still fall back on the network- and credentials-based hiring heuristics that create a…Read More

Andrea Jones-Rooy: A Message from the Future about People Analytics | 2022 Future of Work Conference

“A Message from the Future about People Analytics?” What would happen if you crossed a social scientist, a comedian, and a circus artist? You’d get Professor Andrea Jones-Rooy, a passionate advocate for all things data science with keen insight into what it takes to make data science truly useful. In…Read More

Nick Bloom & Anne Helen Petersen: Adapting to Hybrid Work | 2022 Wharton Future of Work Conference

“Remote Control? How Managers Can Adapt to Our Hybrid Future” In this session, journalist and Out of the Office author Anne Helen Petersen interviews Stanford economist Nick Bloom about the promise and perils of remote work. Nick has been studying this phenomenon since it was called telework, and his data…Read More

Automated Video Interview Personality Assessments: Reliability, Validity, and Generalizability Investigations

Contributors: Wharton People Analytics Postdoctoral Researcher Louis Hickman & Nigel Bosch, Vincent Ng, Rachel Saef, Louis Tay, Sang Eun Woo Organizations are increasingly adopting automated video interviews (AVIs) to screen job applicants despite a paucity of research on their reliability, validity, and generalizability. In this study, we address this gap by…Read More

How Data Analytics Can Help Advance DEI

The Wharton School’s Stephanie Creary speaks with experts about how increasing access to accurate data can help drive changes in DEI policies in the January 18, 2022 issue of Knowledge@Wharton. Read more.

Personality-informed intervention design: Examining how trait regulation can inform efforts to change behavior

Contributors: Robert W Rebele, Peter Koval, Luke D Smillie Research that helps people change their behavior has the potential to improve the quality of lives, but it is too often approached in a way that divorces behavior from the people who need to enact it. In this paper, we propose…Read More