Jensen Huang, Jo Malone And The Childhood Roots Of Overwork
Jensen Huang was nine when his family sent him from Taiwan to the Oneida Baptist Institute in rural Kentucky. Huang was assigned to clean the bathrooms. The CEO of Nvidia describes it without a trace of grievance. "It never occurred to us that it was hard work.". New research from INSEAD suggests the same background can lead to something different.
INSEAD And Harvard Have Solved Sharing With Strangers. But Can MBAs Solve Sharing With Neighbours?
Private vehicles sit unused for 95% of their lifetime. The average power drill is used for between 12 and 15 minutes across its entire ownership. Most households own things they use so rarely that the per-use cost, if you added it up, would be absurd. The sharing economy exists to solve exactly this, and MBA students have used business school to pursue their ideas.
Business Research After FT50 Reshuffle And MIT Sloan Management Review closure
In the space of a week, two decisions have redrawn the map of business research. The Financial Times had carefully replaced three journals in its FT50 list of academic journals. It had now lost a fourth without choosing to. MIT Sloan Management Review -sixty years old and an FT50 mainstay will cease publication. The two stories are not a coincidence.
5 Reasons Why OpenAI Could Be Tomorrow’s Forgotten Pioneer
In 1995, Netscape staged one of the most electrifying IPOs in Wall Street history. Within four years, it was absorbed by AOL for a fraction of its peak valuation. Now OpenAI is valued at somewhere north of $300 billion. The consensus, once again, is that we are in the presence of an inevitable winner. History suggests a little more scepticism is warranted.
The Happiness Syllabus and What Business Schools Know About Living Better
For decades business schools have studied what drives performance, engagement, and productivity. Much of the data keeps coming back to how people feel. Research on happiness is full of findings that contradict what most ambitious people assume to be true. Here are six of the most useful.
When “Very Good Chance” Moves Markets by Trillions
What, exactly, is a very good chance? Is it 60%? 75%? 90%? The answer is that nobody really agrees. And that shared misunderstanding, multiplied across millions of traders, analysts, diplomats and ordinary citizens, has consequences that range from the financially catastrophic to the culturally misleading.
Why Don’t We See More Women In Leadership? It’s Not A Lack of Talent But A Lack of Sponsorship
Despite, Team USAs Women's Ice Hockey team gaining their Gold medal first, the men's team got the praise. In fact, US women brought home more medals from Milan than men. So why are women still undervalued in sport, and other professional settings?
Moneyball for Business Schools – What the Talent 100 Reveals About Where Research Impact Really Lives
In the 2011 film Moneyball, Brad Pitt plays Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane, who stops trusting inherited wisdom about what a “great player” looks like and start trusting the data. The newly released Talent 100 Ranking for Business & Economics does the same.