Contributor: Christopher Maxwell, PhD., Senior Fellow, Center for Leadership and Change Management, The Wharton School Nano Tools for Leaders® are fast, effective leadership tools that you can learn and start using in less than 15 minutes — with the potential to significantly impact your success as a leader and the…Read More
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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
A new paper by Wharton’s Mauro Guillen & INSEAD’s Laurence Capron on governmental protection of shareholder rights
Once upon a time, only countries like Britain and the United States had legal provisions in place to protect the rights of minority shareholders against the actions and decisions of large shareholders and management. As a result, money flowed into the stock market, and capitalization grew vigorously, dwarfing all other…Read More
Will college pay off? The answer depends on the alternatives
It’s a pretty safe bet that a college education is going to be one of the single-largest investments you or your family will ever make. If you’re unlucky, the cost of sending your kids to college could ruin your retirement plans. If you take out student loans – as 80%…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
Gettysburg: Lee Moves North Measuring Performance and Effectiveness
by Ethan S. Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College The battle that was fought in and around the small Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg in July 1863 has long been considered one of the great turning points in American history. In the year prior to the battle, the Confederate…Read More Leadership in the Corner Office
by Michael Useem William P. Lauder, Executive Chairman of The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc., developed and offered a new course for second year Wharton MBA-students during the spring of 2013. Entitled “Decision Making in the Leadership Chair,” the seven-week course brought to campus an array of top executives who themselves…Read More Social Technology and the Changing Context of Leadership
by Roland Deiser and Sylvain Newton Most companies are painfully aware that over the last two decades the context of leadership has changed dramatically, putting tremendous pressure on traditional models of management and organization. Today’s leaders are faced with highly unpredictable and volatile environments that defy long-range planning. Their organizations…Read More
The Importance of Mindful Leadership
by Dr. Chris Maxwell Jeff Klein, Executive Director of the Wharton Leadership Program, advises each entering class of MBAs to seek out and learn from stretch experiences on their path to developing as leaders. Out of the thousands of fleeting experiences one has every day, he says, some are truly…Read More
New Research: Should You Friend Your Supervisor?
This article first appeared in the Chronicle for Higher Education on December 9, 2014. It was written by David Perry, an associate professor at Dominican University About six months after “Jane Smith” began a tenure-track position in the humanities at a big public university in the middle of the country,…Read More