New Wharton research suggests decades of conflicting evidence can be explained by one overlooked factor: the task itself. Do groups outperform individuals? For more than 80 years, researchers across ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Across industries, companies are applying artificial intelligence to their businesses, with mixed results. “What separates the AI projects that succeed from the ones that don’t often has to do with ...

Take big risks, but take them very carefully. That, in so many words, was the advice recently offered by Tom Perkins, who could be considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the topic.

The e-commerce giant’s rapid growth of its fulfillment center network has been key to its dominance over the past decade, recent Wharton research finds. Amazon sells more goods than any one person ...

Creating a fair, equitable and objective system for setting salaries is one of the biggest challenges facing companies today -- and there may not really be an effective way to do it, experts say. Look ...

For many, implementing an innovation strategy, which requires changes within an organization, means adding layers of new processes. Lisa Bodell, author of Kill the Company: End the Status Quo, Start ...

On October 16, federal prosecutors charged Raj Rajaratnam and his hedge fund, Galleon Group, with insider trading. On November 5, 14 additional people were charged with the same crime, and prosecutors ...

Regulators in the United Kingdom and United States announced a settlement with Barclays bank over its manipulation of LIBOR, the benchmark interest rate used around the world. But this is hardly the ...

Imposing taxes on products that have negative effects on health can theoretically lower consumption. But do these policies help consumers to make better choices? ‘Sin tax’ is defined as a tax on a ...