Adam Silver is the Deputy Commissioner and COO of the National Basketball Association. Interviewed by Dan Pink, best-selling author of “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, Drive, and A Whole New Mind”.
Author Malcolm Gladwell. Interviewed by Adam Grant, Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management, The Wharton School, author of “Give and Take”, “Originals”, and “Option B” with Sheryl Sandberg.
Wharton People Analytics Conference 2017: Closing Remarks by Adam Grant, Saul P. Steinberg Professor of Management, The Wharton School and Faculty Co-Director, Wharton People Analytics
Italian designer Brunello Cucinelli on challenging authority, being a kind boss, and the importance of gazing at the stars.…Read More
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
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? 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
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
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
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
