Leaders LoopWhat Does It Mean to Be ‘Happy’ at Work?
In an excerpt from his new book, ‘The Insider Advantage,’ Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell examines what provides a fulfilling career, as well as which jobs have the highest and lowest job satisfaction. … Read More
Reading List
The Leadership Reading List
We don't write everything worth reading. This is where we collect the best leadership and business writing from other publications and blogs, so you don't have to go looking for it.
How AI Planning Could Create Financial Market Fragility
New Wharton research shows how informed AI speculators could coordinate to manipulate positive-feedback investors. … Read More
How to tell if a startup has a moat
A framework for assessing whether the company you’re considering joining is built to last
2026 AI Adoption Report
Now in its fourth year, this unique, year-over-year study from Wharton Human-AI Research and GBK Collective tracks the evolution of AI adoption, ROI, agents, training, and workforce impact. … Read More
The New Rules of Brand Visibility in AI Search
Alice Mollon/Ikon Images The Research The authors interviewed 15 senior marketing and digital leaders across industries, including financial services, software as a service, retail, media, higher education, and professional services, to understand how organizations are adapting SEO practices for AI-mediated discovery. Three themes emerged consistently: major blind spots in AI visibility metrics, o
The unreliable witness
It might be us. Even when there are photos, videos or tape recordings, people find that they can’t agree on what happened. Our vivid recollections can be vivid, but they might not be accurate. What would happen if, for a moment, we imagined that our version of what happened might not be the only one?
🎙️ How I AI: How Meta designed Muse with Alex Cornell
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How Meta designed Muse: an AI agent people actually want to talk to | Alex Cornell (Design Director)
Listen now | 🎙️Alex Cornell explains how Muse serves your mom and an engineer with the same interface, and demos a SkyMall-style catalog, golf recaps, and a blog turned podcast
The best in the world is a local problem
On a good day, my bongo score looks like this: Compared to all the people who have played this morning, it’s right at the top. That could be great… Except I’m not being compared to every player in the world. The first graph is built to compare every player who has never previously won the […]
Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
Listen now (62 mins) | Josh Woodward of Google Labs on where great ideas come from, knowing when to kill them, and building for a world where what’s possible changes every week
Talent becomes media
Rivian has a new ad, starring Bill Murray. It’s not a great ad (more on that below) but the remarkable thing is that it features the quirky, beloved and scarce Bill Murray. Between the movie rights, music and Bill, they had to have spent many millions of dollars, and it doesn’t look like they bought […]
🧠 Community Wisdom: Community Wisdom Top Contributors Summer Class 2026 + ML recommendation systems, getting back into product after being fired, deciding when to quit a side project, and more
A curated collection of Q&A from community contributors addressing practical product and career challenges, including how to navigate returning to product roles after setbacks, guidance on ML recommendation systems, strategies for deciding whether to continue side projects, and other lessons from experienced practitioners.
Productive dissatisfaction
When focused on the things we can change, dissatisfaction is a powerful tool. Accepting everything else–the parts we can’t or won’t change–reserves our energy for the places where it’s useful. The tricky part is telling them apart and then focusing our agency and leverage on the useful. Solving problems for others is how we create […]
Who Controls a Company’s Values After It Is Sold?
Maurice Schweitzer, Wharton professor of operations, information and decisions, examines the Ben & Jerry’s legal battle and the challenges of preserving a company’s social mission under new ownership. … Read More
Thin friction and thicker walls
Civilized culture is based on a thin sort of friction. You don’t yell at the library, act boorish at a restaurant or hassle a minor celebrity at the supermarket. It’s just not done. The result of these human layers and inferences are cues and norms that add up to a connected, generative society. Add selfish […]
How Lucky Strike Entertainment Is Betting on Screen-Free Experiences
Julie Zukof, vice president of brand at Lucky Strike Entertainment, explains how nostalgia, community, and experiential design are bringing a new generation back to the bowling center. … Read More
Leading Thoughts for October 08, 2026
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. Ryushun Kusanagi on living in the now: "Clinging to the past and using it as a reason to negate the present is a mental trap-a distraction from what truly matters, and a source of inner turmoil. Life is full of missteps and failures. What matters is how yo
Why People Would Rather Give Nothing Than Too Little
New research from Wharton shows that overcoming the fear of an inadequate donation can dramatically increase giving. … Read More
Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes
Ryan Serhant is a real estate broker, founder of SERHANT., and star of Bravo’s Million Dollar Listing New York and Netflix’s Owning Manhattan. He explains how to sell without making people feel sold to: build a connection, help first, and earn the right to ask. He also breaks down the psychology of attention and persuasion, … The post Ryan Serhant: How to Get People to Say Yes appeared first on Fa
Our genie problem
The djinn go back millennia, powerful and elusive creatures of the supernatural. They show up across time and culture. Three hundred years ago, Charles Perrault retold a short story about a headstrong woodcutter and his wife. On being granted three wishes from Jupiter (archetype for the genie of legend), he accidentally blurts out that he’d […]