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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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.
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
By: Adam Grant The New York Times The neglected middle child of mental health can dull your motivation and focus — and it may be the dominant emotion of 2021. Read More.
By: Adam Grant The New York Times A few years ago, I made the mistake of having an argument with the most stubborn person I know. R., whose initial I’m using to protect his privacy, is a longtime friend, and when his family came to visit, he mentioned that his…Read More
