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The Role Beauty Plays In Our Success At Work

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers examine the career progression of 752 economists who all graduated from leading doctoral programs across the United States between 2002 and 2006. They suggest that this might be because economists commonly present their papers at conferences, which draws the connection between their physical appearance and their work.

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Research: We Take More Risks When We Compete Against Rivals

Harvard Business Review

” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. In organizations and industries in which experimentation, innovation, bold strategic moves, and thinking outside the box are valued (e.g., Risk-taking is not inherently good or bad; it depends on the context.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. That model still exists, including in online publishing where companies like Automattic, maker of the open source content management system WordPress, sell hosting and related services to publishers. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.