By: Adam Grant and Allison Sweet Grant The New York Times Kids — and parents — need to understand that there’s a big difference between selflessness and generosity. Like many new parents, when our first child was born, we were delighted to receive gift boxes of tiny pajama sets, monogrammed…Read More
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Olympic Gold Medalist and World champion in track and field Allyson Felix speaks with New York Times Best-selling author Dan Pink at The Wharton School’s 2019 People Analytics Conference. Topics include moving out of second place to stand at the top of the Olympic podium, reflecting on her journey, and…Read More
By: Edward H. Chang, Katherine L. Milkman, Laura J. Zarrow, Kasandra Brabaw, Dena M. Gromet, Reb Rebele, Cade Massey, Angela L. Duckworth, Adam Grant Harvard Business Review Virtually all Fortune 500 companies offer diversity training to their employees. Yet surprisingly few of them have measured its impact. That’s unfortunate, considering…Read More
2017 Nobel Prize winner in Economic Sciences and author of the global bestseller Nudge, Richard Thaler, sits down with Wharton Professor, Cade Massey, to discuss key findings from a lifelong studies in behavioral economics and finance. He urges attendees to challenge the status quo and raise the bar within their…Read More
Bestselling author, researcher, and talent expert, Marcus Buckinham, in conversation with The Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at the Wharton School, Adam Grant, discusses the importance of finding and embracing your strengths. Marcus challenges attendees to re-think traditional norms such as feedback and leadership by offering alternative approaches to…Read More
Ceci Clark, Major League Mental Performance Coach of the Cleveland Indians and Meg Popovic, Director of Player Well-Being of the Toronto Maple Leafs, sit down with New York Times Best-selling Author, Daniel Coyle, to talk about using people analytics in sports and what it is like to climb the ranks…Read More
In the augural White Paper Competition, representatives from places such as Uber, Microsoft, General Motors, and Accenture presented how their organizations were using data within the people analytics space. Congratulations to team Accenture for winning the competition by analyzing what makes effective managers.
Adam Grant, the Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management at the Wharton School, closes the 2019 People Analytics Conference differently this year by taking questions from the attendees. He speaks about what motivates him and leaves everyone with research ideas for the year ahead.
Shuba Gopal and Andy Porter from The Broad Institute demonstrate how they use data analytics to better understand the importance of closing the gender pay gap. They say that in order to understand pay equity, companies must first focus on understanding representation.
