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 ...

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.

A decade ago, movie fans who wanted to forgo paying theater admission waited an average of five months before they could watch a film in their own living rooms. Today, the window between theatrical ...

When Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was a kid growing up in Hyderabad, India his father couldn’t believe how poor his grades were. “My father, who was very, very good academically, always used to look at ...

For a growing number of Americans, high deductible health plans are a fact of life. The trend started a decade ago and shows no signs of disappearing. At many firms, it’s the sole health insurance ...

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 ...

New research on index investing recommends the inclusion of ETFs in retirement accounts as an alternative investment option to open-end mutual funds. Until recently, both ETFs and mutual funds ...

Taiwan's brand new high-speed rail is an engineering marvel, a sleek set of elevated tracks that carries passengers over the farms and factories of the West coast at 300 kilometers per hour. But the ...

Colm Murphy, group strategy director for advertising agency Droga5, discusses the process behind a successful campaign and how to keep fresh ideas flowing. Colm Murphy is the group strategy director ...

A brace of recent Supreme Court decisions has granted certain privileges once reserved only for flesh-and-blood citizens — the right to be free from government limitation of political speech, for ...

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 ...

Peter Killing and Thomas Malnight are professors of business strategy at IMD, the Switzerland-based business school, and Tracey Keys is a consultant. In their book, Must-Win Battles: How to Win Them, ...