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How Do We Manage Remote Work?

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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?

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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

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.

There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing

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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.

The Science of Reasoning With Unreasonable People

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

We Need to Talk About ‘The Giving Tree’

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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

Does Diversity Training Work the Way It’s Supposed To?

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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

When and Why Diversity Improves Your Board’s Performance

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By: Stephanie J. Creary, Mary-Hunter (“Mae”) McDonnell, Sakshi Ghai, Jared Scruggs Harvard Business Review On January 1, California law said that all locally headquartered publicly traded companies must have at least one female director by 2020. While new to the U.S., mandates to increase gender diversity on corporate boards are common elsewhere.…Read More

How You Can Have More Impact as a People Analyst

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By Cade Massey MIT Sloan Management Review I was told recently about a people analytics group that prided itself on its independence. They did not mingle with operations, they never made site visits, and they did not explain their models. They aspired to be the alternative view, uncorrupted by “the way…Read More

Career Management Isn’t Just the Employee’s Job

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By Matthew Bidwell and Federica De Stefano MIT Sloan Management Review Careers are much more complex than they used to be, even within organizations. Now that companies have replaced rigid hierarchies with flatter, more fluid team-based structures to promote agile ways of working, they have also made it much harder for…Read More