(Outlet: Wharton Magazine) Insights from Wharton professors on immigration, parenthood, geopolitical risk, and artificial intelligence.…Read More
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How to Resolve Conflict in Business
(Outlet: Wharton Magazine) Alas, disputes, disagreements, and discord are parts of human nature (and that seems to go double for the nature of business). But research into a variety of scenarios, from interpersonal tension to geopolitical friction, offers hope for a more successful path forward. Here, five Wharton faculty share insights about conflict in its many forms and how to navigate it, resolve it, reframe it, or even avoid it entirely, for better results.…Read More
Extra: How Much Do You Know About Immigration?
(Outlet: Freakonomics Radio) Zeke Hernandez, professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and author of The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers (2024, available for pre-order), joins the show.…Read More
A Look At The High Fees Making Hiring H-1B Visa Holders Challenging
(Outlet: Forbes) Hiring and retaining foreign-born scientists and engineers is expensive for employers in the United States. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services fee rule represents the latest federal action making it more costly to employ H-1B visa holders. …Read More
What immigration actually does to jobs, wages and more
(Outlet: Marketplace) Zeke Hernandez, professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, spoke with “Marketplace Morning Report” host Sabri Ben-Achour about his forthcoming book called “The Truth About Immigration: Why Successful Societies Welcome Newcomers.” …Read More
The Value of Corporate Purpose
(Outlet: Harvard Business Review) Instead of conceiving of the firm as a collection of managers writing contracts specifying roles and tasks and then struggling to get workers to comply, we need to develop theories that better match the organizations we lead, study, advise, and report on, argues Witold J. Henisz, Vice Dean of the ESG Initiative at the Wharton School.…Read More
Projects funded by the World Bank Group’s private sector arm fuel violent conflict – it’s time to reform the system
(Outlet: The Conversation) Witold J. Henisz, Anne Jamison, and Brian Ganson discuss the findings of their comprehensive study of thousands of projects of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group. …Read More
The ESG Initiative presents an update to the POLCON dataset
The Wharton Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) Initiative is proud to present an update to the POLCON (POLitical CONstraint) dataset, including new data through the end of the year 2020. The POLCON measure, developed by Vice Dean and Faculty Director of the ESG Initiative Witold Henisz, is a quantitative measure of institutional constraints that uses a spatial model of political interaction and measures the feasibility of a change in policy given the structure of a nation’s political institutions.…Read More
Migration and Organizations Conference elevates the important relationship between migration and business
In its fifth edition on October 21 and 22, the 2022 Migration and Organizations Conference hosted by the Political Risk and Identity Lab gathered scholars from around the world to advance rigorous research that centers the role of firms in the conversation on migration.…Read More
The impact of board diversity on firms and the experience of Indigenous board members
In Board Diversity: Literature Review and the Indigenous Experience, authors Gauri Subramania and Kalie Wertz summarize the robust literature studying the drivers and implications of board diversity on firms and share a case study constructed through interviews with 11 Indigenous-identifying individuals with board experience.…Read More