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Original Thinkers: The Philosopher CEO, Brunello Cucinelli

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Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli on challenging authority, being a kind boss, and the importance of gazing at the stars.…Read More

The HR role in corporate social responsibility and sustainability: A boundary‐shifting literature review

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Although research on human and social sustainability has flourished in the past decade, the role that human resource management departments play (or should play) in facilitating more socially responsible and sustainable organizations remains unclear.…Read More

College Football Playoff: Which teams control how much of their destinies

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Cade Massey, a practice professor at the Wharton School, and Rufus Peabody, a Washington-based sports analyst, developed a ranking system for projecting future performance. Ratings represent a team’s predicted point differential against an average team on a neutral field. A look at the College football playoff race.…Read More

Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting?

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Kids, Would You Please Start Fighting? When Wilbur and Orville Wright finished their flight at Kitty Hawk, Americans celebrated the brotherly bond. The brothers had grown up playing together, they had been in the newspaper business together, they had built an airplane together.…Read More

Wharton Moneyball team talks to ESPN senior sportswriter, Neil Paine

Neil Paine is a senior sportswriter for ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight. He has also worked for the New York Times, Sports-Reference and the Atlanta Hawks.…Read More

Is the Rise of Contract Workers Killing Upward Mobility?

Bidwell Discusses Contractual Obligation

Wharton People Analytics’ own Professor Matthew Bidwell discussed the perils for contract workers in today’s workplace on Knowledge@Wharton. While the gains are alluring to employers, the results can be counterproductive by establishing second-class status, changing the workplace dynamic and causing friction.…Read More

Wharton Moneyball team talks to Steve Palazzolo on sports data

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Steve Palazzolo is a senior analyst at ProFootballFocus, where he contributes to the grading and analyzing of every player on every snap during NFL and FBS seasons, heads up the development of college football products, and works with NFL teams to help them best optimize usage of PFF’s data.…Read More

Laura Zarrow with Iris Bohnet on ‘What Works: Gender Equality by Design’

Iris Bohnet, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, talks with Laura Zarrow about how behavioral design can de-bias how we live, learn and work. Bohnet is the author of the book, ‘What Works: Gender Equality by Design’.…Read More

Kara Chambers and Lee Burbage on the Motley Fool at the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2017

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Kara Chambers, Chief Learning Officer, and Lee Burbage, Chief People Officer at The Motley Fool, joins hosts Mike Useem and Anne Greenhalgh in preparation for the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2017 to discuss how their 300 employee business has started integrating people analytics for enacting data driven decisions to better their workplace culture on Leadership in Action.…Read More

Sean Waldheim on Teach for America at the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2017

Sean Waldheim, Vice President of Admissions at Teach for America, joins hosts Mike Useem and Anne Greenhalgh in preparation for the Wharton People Analytics Conference 2017 to discuss using research to define characteristics of successful teachers in the TFA program and how TFA can have the most impact in low income schools on Leadership in Action.…Read More