How identity informs workplace relationships
Businessam Staff
November 24, 2017
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Diversity and inclusion in the workplace are topics that have been talked about extensively over the past decade. Wharton management professor Stephanie Creary wants to move beyond the rhetoric into the research of how identity impacts organizational structure. Her paper, “Out of the Box? How Managing a Subordinate’s Multiple Identities Affects the Quality of a Manager-subordinate Relationship,” […]
Wealth management: Why you should be your own CEO
Businessam Staff
November 24, 2017
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Wall Street veteran Charlotte Beyer knows investing can be an intimidating experience. At Wharton, she created the first private wealth management curriculum in the country and dedicated part of her career to helping demystify wealth management for all. She spoke with Knowledge@Wharton recently to talk about the newest edition of her book, Wealth Management Unwrapped, which offers advice on […]
Too much togetherness? The downside of workplace collaboration
Businessam Staff
November 13, 2017
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The mere mention of keeping up with overflowing email, constant meetings, and time-sucking conference calls makes many of us groan and roll our eyes. How did we all get so busy? A major culprit is a sharp rise in cross-functional collaboration over the past several years. Today, it’s often not enough to just put your […]
John Sculley: Rising to the challenge of ‘truly disruptive innovation’
Businessam Staff
November 13, 2017
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While serving as CEO of PepsiCo, John Sculley was recruited by Steve Jobs to become CEO of Apple in 1983. After a disagreement with Jobs over business strategy in which the Apple board sided with Sculley, Jobs left the company and Sculley continued at the helm of Apple until 1993. Since then, Sculley has co-founded […]
Why emerging markets are next e-commerce frontier
Businessam Staff
November 13, 2017
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After eight years as a vice president at Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, Porter Erisman is sharing his insights into the next frontier for online shopping — emerging markets. While e-commerce in the West is a maturing market, emerging economies are poised to become the next mega markets as internet adoption rises amid a growing middle […]
What defines millennials, and how marketers can reach them
Businessam Staff
October 31, 2017
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Members of the millennial generation are far less trusting than baby boomers or Generation X. Also, unlike their older counterparts, millennials are far more likely to rely on technology to make informed decisions. As director of the undergraduate marketing program at Wharton, adjunct professor Keith Niedermeier has specific insight into this group: He’s been teaching a core […]
How to build trust and lead effectively
Businessam Staff
October 31, 2017
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Building good teams starts with having strong relationships based on a foundation of trust. But how does one develop that trust at work or in life? Counterintelligence expert Robin Dreeke, who spent decades as a senior FBI agent, knows how to make strangers trust him enough to be recruited as spies. And it’s not about […]
How to keep a company from leaving town
Businessam Staff
October 31, 2017
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About 20 years ago, General Motors announced it would leave its production facility in Lansing, Michigan. The mayor at that time, David Hollister, refused to accept that and helped lead the fight to keep GM in the city and save jobs. The process, which involved local and state government, community leaders, schools, businesses and many […]
How Richard Thaler’s ‘simple insights’ led to a Nobel Prize
Businessam Staff
October 16, 2017
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Richard H. Thaler, the “father of behavioral economics,” has this week won the 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in that field. Thaler has long been known for challenging a foundational concept in mainstream economics — namely, that people by-and-large behave rationally when making purchasing and financial decisions. Thaler’s research upended the conventional […]
Why the next phase for fintech is collaboration, not just competition
Businessam Staff
October 16, 2017
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Fintech — or financial technology — is a much-hyped buzzword on Wall Street that brings to mind nimble startups slaying stodgy bank ‘dinosaurs.’ The reality is more complicated. Fintech is growing up: Financial institutions are increasingly viewing these disruptors as partners while startups are learning that they need the scale and regulatory expertise of the […]