Bob Iger: Why Disney Is Betting Big on Streaming

During a recent visit to Wharton, Disney CEO Bob Iger said acquiring household names like Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars was key to the company’s strategy for making its new streaming service stand out in a crowded market.

Management

McDonald's CEO fired

The recent firing of McDonald’s chief executive Steve Easterbrook over a workplace romance highlights a growing intolerance for inappropriate behavior that used to be overlooked.

Workplace Romance: Did McDonald’s Make the Right Call?

In the Digital Age, How Companies Can Go from Vulnerable to Vigilant
The Whistleblower’s Dilemma: Do the Risks Outweigh the Benefits?
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Innovation

How did India’s innovation ecosystem evolve and reach its current position? The authors of this opinion piece share their insights.

Three Waves: Tracking the Evolution of India’s Startups

What Smart Manufacturers Know About Bundling Products and Services
What’s Fueling the Smart City Backlash?
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Technology

When algorithms make decisions, they engender not just challenges but also huge risks for corporations. Companies should use AI audits to mitigate these risks, writes Wharton’s Kartik Hosanagar.

Why Audits Are the Way Forward for AI Governance

Why Digital Transformations Fail — and How to Fix That
Your Data Is Shared and Sold…What’s Being Done About It?
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Social Impact

For the Denmark-based biotech firm, the U.N. sustainable development goals are an inspiration as well as part of business strategy.

Novozymes Wants to ‘Rethink Tomorrow’

Untapped Opportunities: How Is Impact Investing Poised to Grow?
Responding to Natural Disasters: Is There a Better Way?
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Marketing

sharing economy marketing strategy

A new paper by Wharton’s Cait Lamberton offers guidance for marketers who must transform traditional practices and beliefs to fit the modern sharing economy.

Has the Sharing Economy Disrupted Marketing? Not Quite…

Finding Your Voice: Why Confidence Is Key to Persuasion
Fashion Fail: Where Did Forever 21 Go Wrong?
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Finance

Armed with knowledge and connections in their native countries, first-generation immigrants help open the door for venture capitalists to make investments abroad, according to new research coauthored by Wharton’s Exequiel Hernandez.

How Immigrant Entrepreneurs Pave the Way for Foreign VC Investments

Can India’s Economy Return to High Growth?
How to Design an Effective Initial Coin Offering
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Public Policy

U.S. home prices are falling as the market absorbs the 2017 Tax Act changes. Meanwhile, other factors are hampering the housing market and point to a potential recession ahead, experts say.

Why Tax Changes Are Hurting the Housing Market

The Real Policy Wonks: How Economists Reshaped America
Power Rankings: How the World Bank Influences Regulatory Policy
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Leadership

Workers have been conditioned to check their feelings at the door, but love makes for better business all around, says the author of a new book.

All You Need Is Love: The Case for Bringing Greater Passion to Work

Pull up a Chair: How Ethan Allen’s CEO Helped Build a Furniture Empire
Rough Ride: Looking Inside the Tumultuous Rise of Uber
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