In this Nano Tool for Leaders® from Wharton Executive Education, Wharton’s Sigal Barsade offers strategies for enhancing employee performance by managing the emotional contagion that occurs on teams.

Digital technologies do more than cut costs. They can also drive strategic growth, says Wharton’s Christopher Ittner. When companies talk about cost management, their focus typically is on slashing ...

Four traits characterize high-performing CEOs, according to an extensive 10-year study called the CEO Genome Project. Knowledge at Wharton: Before we talk about your research on the CEO Genome Project ...

For many critics of U.S. health care, Canada's single-payer system has long been viewed as an alternative, superior model. Could a similar system work in the U.S.? Much of the appeal of the Canadian ...

At the moment, there is no consensus about when to work, where to work or the number of hours one is expected to work. Is the traditional 40-hour work week dead? Today’s nine-to-fiver can only look at ...

How do we know which of our successes and failures can be attributed to either skill or luck? That is the question that investment strategist Michael J. Mauboussin explores in his book The Success ...

Wharton marketing professor Michael Platt wants to get inside your head. Specifically, he wants to know why people make the decisions that they do and what influences those decisions. Platt’s latest ...

In August, the current bull market in U.S. stocks became the longest one in history — and there are scant signs of it slowing down. The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq have recently set all-time highs despite ...

“I have discovered that our [MBA] students talk about becoming an ‘MBB.’ That’s [a reference to] ‘McKinsey Bain BCG’, the three highest-status consulting firms,” says Wharton management professor ...

For more than 50 years, the World Bank, donor nations, various aid agencies, national governments, and, lately, civil society organizations have all tried to but failed to eradicate poverty. The ...

Sweden is regarded as the poster child of cashless countries and is expected to become the world’s first cashless society by March 2023. This means that cash will not be a generally accepted means of ...

New Wharton research reveals that angry people often lose the ability to see problems from another point of view. This can hamper efforts to resolve conflict. Wharton’s Maurice Schweitzer and ...