The new president's job, says one Wharton professor, "will be as hard as any job any person has ever had." For the 44th president of the United States, extraordinary managerial and cognitive...
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As negotiators in Washington struggled to devise a plan to rescue Wall Street and avert a global financial catastrophe, Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit noted during an interview at Wharton last week that ...
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Bad debt. Frozen credit. Stock market panic. Popular outrage. Political paralysis. The financial crisis that has dominated September's headlines may feel unprecedented to many Americans. But it feels ...
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Ann Taylor Stores -- a New York-based retailer of upscale women's clothing -- is using a new computer scheduling system that assigns the busiest and most desirablehours to employees with the strongest...
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The new president's job, says one Wharton professor, "will be as hard as any job any person has ever had." For the 44th president of the United States, extraordinary leadership, managerial a...
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Seth Berger is founder and former CEO of AND 1, a company specializing in basketball shoes and apparel. Started by Berger and several classmates while they were students at Wharton in the early 1990s,...
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Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg called the latest 3D movie technology "the greatest innovation to occur in the movie business in 70 years." A bevy of theater chains are exploring...
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Here's a piece of advice: Don't read this story if you have just had a fight with your spouse or a co-worker. You will probably ignore it, despite its grounding in solid academic research. At least th...
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When Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates stepped down from daily involvement with the company this past summer, the company's chief research and strategy officer, Craig Mundie, was one of two Mi...
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Is water the new oil? The answer is yes, according to a number of economists, business leaders, scientists and geopolitical strategists, who argue that it's time to stop taking for granted the substan...
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Economists and financial experts don't all agree that the Bush Administration's $700 billion Wall Street rescue plan -- a taxpayer-funded purchase of troubled mortgage securities -- is the best way to...
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Rising energy demand from China and India has unleashed a worldwide race to secure access to scarce fossil fuel resources, a more difficult proposition with the emergence of national oil companies in ...
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Emerging economies still promise opportunity but also political risk for international businesses. Growing income disparity in rapidly developing economies, geopolitical tensions and anti-U.S. attitud...
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Faced with an aging workforce and a growing demand for skilled workers in emerging markets like China and India, companies in the West are grappling with a talent crunch of unprecedented scope. Accord...
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Rapidly developing economies have become drivers of change -- and sometimes disruption -- in global financial markets. That has important implications for companies in the U.S. and Europe as new playe...
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According to Hal Sirkin, senior partner and managing director at The Boston Consulting Group, "The age of globalization is over." In its place is a new reality that Sirkin and BCG colleagues...
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In a roundtable discussion on the fallout from a week of turmoil on Wall Street, Wharton professors Richard Herring, Susan Wachter and Franklin Allen discuss the ripple effect of the crisis across U.S...
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Big market downturns and jarring volatility have left small investors feeling whipsawed -- and nervous. But it would be a mistake to abandon classic long-term personal finance principles in the face o...
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With global financial markets in turmoil, trade will most likely be an urgent concern for the next president.As part of Knowledge@Wharton's ongoing coverage of the upcoming November election, we exami...
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