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Smoking: A Drag for Job Applicants?
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Smokers need not apply — or need to quit — if they want to be hired at a southern Delaware …
Can Energy-consumption Data Change Consumer Behavior?
Do you know how much energy you consume every 15 minutes? Most would say that’s a hard — if not impossible — question to answer, but San Francisco-based utility provider Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) now has access to that information for 30,000 of its residential customers, thanks to its “SmartMeter” program. PG&E’s …
High-Powered Women and Supportive Spouses: Who’s in Charge, and of What?
At a time when issues like gender inequality in the boardroom and the dearth of women in corporate America continue to make headlines, it is worth asking: How important is the role of a supportive spouse in the lives of …
The Cost and Consequences of the U.S. Drought
The 2012 farming season may be in its waning days, but the consequences of this year’s drought, the worst of its kind in 25 years, are yet to be known.
Are Public Corporations Passé?
Tylenol and the Legacy of J&J’s James Burke
Will Banning or Taxing Soda Really Make Us Healthier?
The taste of soda may be sweet, but the potential consequences of those empty calories — obesity, diabetes, higher mortality, and skyrocketing health care costs — are not. In response, many states and cities in recent years …
‘Moral Decoupling:’ How Consumers Justify Supporting a Tarnished Brand
Wharton marketing professor Americus Reed and doctoral students Amit Bhattacharjee (now a visiting professor at Dartmouth) and Jonathan Berman were chatting at the department holiday party when the conversation turned to current …
Race, Gender and Careers: Why ‘Stuffing the Pipeline’ Is Not Enough
When Wharton operations and information management professor Katherine L. Milkman was earning her doctorate at Harvard University in business and computer science, it became clear that she would pursue a career as a professor. As …
Seems Awkward, Ignores the Rules, but Brilliant: Meet the Maverick Job Candidate
Organizational psychologist explains how maverick personalities can be secret weapons that make businesses successful.
High-speed Railways: Worth Their Hefty Price Tag?
Imagine riding from Philadelphia to New York in only 37 minutes, or from Boston to Washington, D.C., in just three hours on a cutting-edge, high-speed transportation network linking every major city in the Northeast — …
