Recently, Professor Mike Useem, the William and Jaclyn Egan Professor of Management teamed up with Wharton's Aresty School of Executive Education for a video series, entitled Conversations with the C-Suite. Recently, Professor Useem had the pleasure of interviewing the following executives, Dr. Peter Fasalo, the Vice President, Global Human Resources, of Johnson…Read More
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Knowledge@Wharton: Building VPS Healthcare into a Billion-dollar Firm
How Shamsheer Vayalil Built VPS Healthcare into a Billion-dollar Firm Published Oct 19, 2015 Shamsheer Vayalil is founder and managing director of VPS Healthcare. He has successfully led the group from a single hospital in 2007 to an end-to-end health care provider with a rapidly expanding global footprint. Today, VPS…Read More
McGill University Professor Karl Moore explains why leaders should learn to channel their inner introverts
The CEO of a major multinational came to our CEO Insights class and told us that, as an introverted leader, he had to put on his “game face” whenever he left his floor. If you want to be the CEO of a big organization, he implied, you need to act…Read More
Leadership Dispatches visit to Chile
Upon publication of Leadership Dispatches: Chile’s Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster by Stanford University Press in March, 2015, its authors* were invited to make a set of presentations in Santiago, the capital of Chile, on April 21-22. Michael Useem and Erwann Michel-Kerjan offered the main findings of their study and its…Read More
Arianna Huffington on How to Thrive
Leadership Digest Editor's Note: On Thursday, January 30, Adam Grant and the Huffington Post hosted a Third Metric Research Council in New York City. Attended by 30 'friends and family' of Adam and Arianna Huffington, the day was comprised of four presentations followed by breakout sessions facilitated by Wharton MBA and PhD…Read More
Knowledge@Wharton: Tyco’s Ed Breen
During a Crisis, 'Spend a Lot of Time on the Big Swings' Published February 13, 2013 In a career spanning 34 years, Edward Breen has faced many difficult situations, perhaps none as challenging as his most recent assignment -- CEO of Tyco International -- which he took on when the…Read More Leaders@Wharton: William Lauder Interview
New Series Launches with Interview of William Lauder Wharton professors Adam Grant and Michael Useem launch a new series on Leaders@Wharton with an interview of William Lauder, executive chairman of Estée Lauder Companies and the former chief executive there. In this and subsequent interviews, they ask about the accomplishments of…Read More Knowledge@Wharton: Steve Davis
Health Care Activist Steve Davis: Avoiding the 'I'll Give Back Later' Trap Published February 27, 2013 Steve Davis is president and CEO of PATH, an international nonprofit whose goal is to help communities break longstanding cycles of poor health. The cross-sectoral skills he has accumulated during his earlier work in…Read More Knowledge@Wharton: Givers vs. Takers
The Surprising Truth about Who Gets Ahead Published April 10, 2013 A colleague asks you for feedback on a report. A LinkedIn connection requests an introduction to one of your key contacts. A recent graduate would like an informational interview. New research from Wharton management professor Adam Grant reveals that…Read More Knowledge@Wharton: Campbell Soup’s Denise Morrison
'Going Back to the Consumer’ to Get Ahead Published July 3, 2013 Denise Morrison had never really thought she was breaking any glass ceiling when she became president and chief executive officer of Campbell Soup Company. After all, she had been conscious from childhood that women were going to be…Read More