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The right words in the right sequence create information. Ideas that change our world. The first kind of word salad allows the writer to hide. Fancy words, carefully juxtaposed, saying nothing. This can serve a valuable function for politicians, academics and bosses–but there’s no real information for the reader. It’s simply a collection of words […]
Wharton's Michael Platt discusses the biological basis of gambling amid the proliferation of online gambling sites. … Read More
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton's Matthew Bidwell explains how to build familiarity quickly in a new work environment. … Read More
Wharton professor Santiago Gallino explains why AI falls short and human judgment still matters. … Read More
Eric Eager explores randomness, competitive balance, and what sports analytics reveals about winning. … Read More
Even though it’s invisible, easily transported and weightless, software used to stick around. It took years to architect and build a complex bit of software, and thousands of people to help maintain it. Even a complex website could be seen as a durable technical asset. Now, with Claude Code on everyone’s desk, new software is […]
Michael Glenwood Gibbs/theispot.com Digital platforms and generative AI have lowered the barriers to accessing global talent, capital, and knowledge for companies everywhere while making it possible to reach customers across languages and cultures. Research my colleagues and I have conducted suggests that such tools make it easier for entrepreneurs to serve global markets and for […]
The meeting is now broken. Even if you were actually engaging with the attendees before, it’s over. You took a new medium and stuffed an old one into it, changed the dynamic and ruined it. Zoom is a device that eliminates physical distance and enables a synchronized conversation. Interactions in real time. In particular, groups […]
Hedging can make us less persuasive, but new research from Wharton’s Jonah Berger shows how communicators can use hedging to their advantage. … Read More
Wharton's Courtney Wiegand explains how financial markets respond to different stages of the congressional budget process. … Read More
WE can be too close, too present in a situation, to look at it constructively. Good decision-making occurs when we can step back and look at the situation from a broader, more objective perspective. We respond differently when we see differently. Authors L. David Marquet and Michael Gillespie warn us in Distancing, “When excited, stressed, or threatened, we are pushed further into a state of self-
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Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images To understand their customers and markets, a growing number of customer-oriented companies are using generative AI tools, alongside the language and reasoning capabilities of popular large language models (LLMs), to access and analyze their own internal content. These hybrid knowledge approaches, which typically employ a technique called retrieval-augm
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Professor Serguei Netessine explains how corporate venturing is evolving beyond traditional venture capital. … Read More
EXCELLENCE is not a destination. It is the way we move in the world. It’s the direction we grow towards. In The Way of Excellence, author Brad Stulberg defines excellence as “An ongoing process of growth and becoming that imbues life with meaning and vigor. It emerges from involved engagement in something worthwhile that supports your values and goals. Excellence combines mastery and mattering. It
IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Mark Pincus on doing something great: “Being truly ambitious and committed to winning means: 1. Maintaining ruthless objectivity about your ideas. 2. Being willing to kill them often. 3. Losing any emotional attachment to specific implementations. 4. Testi
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