Wharton’s Peter Cappelli explains what we’re getting wrong about the Great Resignation, how the pandemic has rewired worker preferences, and why it’s time for employers to reconsider how they do things. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton Should Employers Rethink What They’re Offering Workers?
New research co-authored by Wharton’s Sean Myers helps refine investment models to account for mistakes in cash flow expectations while discount rates stay flat. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton How Errors in Reading Fundamentals Drive Stock Price Volatility
Read the full article at HBR Nothing changes unless people’s behavior changes. Sure, digital transformation requires that companies upgrade systems and make sure people have the right tools and know how to use them. But those investments only lead to transformation if they are coupled with serious work helping people adopt and use that technology Read more about Three Tactics to Accelerate a Digital Transformation[…]
This Nano Tool for Leaders from Wharton Executive Education offers strategies to improve team resilience and performance and reduce burnout by relying on less obvious sources of support. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton High-performing and Resilient Teams: Preventing Burnout
Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer, cofounders of HumanityWorks, are sounding an alarm bell for employee retention. Record numbers of people are quitting their jobs due to burnout and better opportunities. Those resignations leave their former colleagues burdened with even more work and a sense of despair. Cohen and Roeske-Zummer argue that employers should re-recruit Read more about One Way to Fight the Great Resignation? Re-recruit Your Current Employees.[…]
Wharton’s Katherine Klein speaks with Davis Smith, founder of sustainable outdoor gear brand Cotopaxi, about his firm’s mission and how the business world can think differently about capitalism. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton Doing Capitalism Differently — One Backpack at a Time
A recent “Beyond Business” panel discussion, hosted by Wharton Dean Erika James, focused on how boards can redefine corporate governance to maximize a company’s social impact while balancing the needs of all stakeholders. Source: Knowledge @ Wharton How Corporate Governance Is Changing
Companies pay disproportionately high salaries to CEOs and other high-powered professionals willing to live and breathe their jobs, on-call 24/7, ready to pick up and travel. It’s a phenomenon Harvard historian and economist Claudia Goldin calls “greedy work” and she says it’s a big reason why the pay gap between men and women persists Read more about Why the Highest Paying Jobs So Rarely Go to Women[…]
Download the article collection now. Covid has underscored the need for leading with a clear vision for the future. In this special collection of articles drawing on concepts from “Lead from the Future,” you can how explore how a “future-back” lens can create a long-term growth strategy and new work paradigm to help your Read more about Leading Through Covid-19 to Emerge Stronger[…]
Rob Cross, management professor at Babson College, says people are changing jobs more than ever and too often falling short when they do. Surveys show nearly half of people promoted within their own companies are underperforming 18 months later. And up to half of executives in new roles are seen as eventual disappointments. Cross Read more about In a New Role? Here’s How to Hit the Ground Running[…]