How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who…Read More
Job titles help organizations manage their human capital and have far-reaching implications for employees’ identities. Because titles do not always reflect the unique value that employees bring to their jobs, some organizations have recently experimented with encouraging employees to create their own job titles.…Read More
The expert performance framework distinguishes between deliberate practice and less effective practice activities. Deliberate practice, operationally defined as studying and memorizing words while alone, better predicted performance in the National Spelling Bee than being quizzed by others or reading for pleasure.…Read More
From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, two-time NBA Champion Shane Battier speaks with Wharton professor Adam Grant on the role people analytics has played in his basketball career, from giving him a blueprint to guarding Kobe Bryant to utilizing analytics in real-time during game situations.…Read More
From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, a presentation on the justice system, preventing crimes, and identifying low- versus high-risk offenders. The featured speaker: Anne Milgram, Former Attorney General of New Jersey; Senior Fellow, NYU Law School Center on the Administration of Criminal Law; Vice President of Criminal Justice, Laura and John Arnold Foundation.…Read More
Can a data-driven approach to managing people at work help organizations make better HR decisions? Wharton professors Cade Massey and Adam Grant share their insights.
From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, Peter Fasolo, Johnson & Johnson’s Vice President of Human Resources, discusses analytics and its role in providing insights on their workforce with Wharton professor Nancy Rothbard.…Read More
From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, Wharton professor Michael Useem hosts a panel on past mistakes made and lessons learned in people analytics with Prasad Setty (VP, People Analytics and Compensation, Google), Sean Waldheim (VP of Admissions, Teach for America), Ryan Dullaghan (Manager, People Assessment & Analytics, Jet Blue), and Karyn Marciniak (People Analytics, Two Sigma).…Read More
From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, case studies on predicting employee performance from Ryan Dullaghan (Manager, People Assessment & Analytics, Jet Blue), Andrew Biga (Director of Talent Acquisition and Assessment, Jet Blue), Angela Duckworth (Associate Professor of Psychology, Wharton) and Amy Wrzesniewski (Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior, Yale School of Management), followed by a Q&A moderated by Wharton’s Deputy Vice Dean of MBA Admissions, Maryellen Reilly Lamb.…Read More
From the 2015 Wharton People Analytics Conference, Cindy Chung, Senior Research Scientist at Intel, discusses the predictive power of the words we use with Wharton professor Laura Huang.…Read More
