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Wharton on Career Management
Wharton on Career Management

Volume 1: The Work/Life Balance

  • Plateauing: Redefining Success at Work
  • Reluctant Vacationers: Why Americans Work More, Relax Less, Than Europeans
  • Women Who Step Out of the Corporate World Find It Hard To Step Back In
  • Work and Family: Is Peaceful Co-existence Possible?
  • More Than Job Demands or Personality, Lack of Organizational Respect Fuels Employee Burnout

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Volume 2: Getting In, Getting Ahead, and Getting Out — Gracefully

  • Got a New Job? Better Check That Non-Compete Clause
  • Heading for the Fast Track? New Studies Examine Who Gets Promoted and Why
  • Clash of the Titans: When Top Executives Don't Get Along with the Team
  • 'One for All' or 'One for One'? The Trade-off Between Talent and Disruptive Behavior
  • Redefining Retirement in the 21st Century

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Wharton on Human Resources
Wharton on Human Resources

Volume 1: Managing Talent

  • Plateauing: Redefining Success at Work
  • Heading for the Fast Track? New Studies Examine Who Gets Promoted and Why
  • 'One for All' or 'One for One'? The Trade-off Between Talent and Disruptive Behavior
  • How To Inspire Creativity and Reward Good Employees (Like You and Me)
  • Welcome Aboard — For Now

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Volume 2: The HR Contribution

  • Is Your HR Department Friend or Foe? Depends on Who's Asking the Question
  • Giving Employees What They Want: The Returns Are Huge
  • More Than Job Demands or Personality, Lack of Organizational Respect Fuels Employee Burnout
  • Older Workers: Untapped Assets for Creating Value
  • The Human Side of Mergers: Those Laid Off and Those Left Aboard

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Wharton on Marketing
Wharton on Human Resources

Volume 1: Determining and Measuring Your Strategy

  • The “Myth of Market Share”: Can Focusing Too Much on the Competition Harm Profitability?
  • Network-Based Marketing: Using Existing Customers To Help Sell to New Ones
  • 'One for All' or 'One for One'? The Trade-off Between Talent and Disruptive Behavior
  • Death in the Middle: Why Consumers Seek Value at the Top and Bottom of Markets
  • How and Why Chinese Firms Excel in “The Art of Price War”
  • Marketing Metrics and Financial Performance
  • “Influentials” and “Imitators”: How To Better Forecast the Sale of New Products

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Volume 2: Approaches for Retailers

  • Can’t Find That Dress on the Rack? Retailers Are Pushing More Shoppers to the Web
  • What Consumers — and Retailers —  Should Know About Dynamic Pricing
  • The Lowdown on Customer Loyalty Programs: Which Are the Most Effective and Why
  • Beware of Dissatisfied Consumers: They Like To Blab
  • Wal-Mart: Is There a Downside to Going Upscale?

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Volume 3: The Brand, the Message, and the Medium

  • Losing Their Cool: The Downside of Expanding Hot Social Networking Sites
  • Product Placement in the Pews? Microtargeting Meets Megachurches
  • Burgers and Other Goods in the Blink of an Eye: How Effective Are Short Ads?
  • Talking Chimps, Subservient Chickens, and Others Blend Entertainment and Advertising
  • From Teen Fashion to Hershey Kisses: New Ways To Sell the Brand
  • Brand Rehab: How Companies Can Restore a Tarnished Image

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Wharton on Finance
Wharton on Finance

Volume 1: Corporate Finance

  • Private Equity Is on a Roll, but Are Investors in for a Let-Down?
  • Will It Pay Off or Become a Write Off? Managing Risk in Venture Capital Investing
  • How New Accounting Rules Are Changing the Way CEOs Get Paid
  • Finding Value for BPO Through Revenue Distance
  • The Role of Derivatives in Corporate Finances: Are Firms Betting the Ranch?

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Volume 2: Personal Finance

  • ‘Stale’ or ‘Sticky’ — What Motivates Late Trading and Market Timing in Mutual Funds?
  • Today’s Research Question Why Do Investors Choose High-Fee Mutual Funds Despite the Lower Returns?
  • Don’t Sweat the Inverted Yield Curve: No One Really Knows What It Means
  • Exchange Traded Funds: What’s the (Big) Deal?
  • Longer Lives and the ‘Lump-Sum Illusion’ Are Just Two of the Challenges Retiring Baby-Boomers Face
  • Hands-Off: Holders of 401(k) Retirement Accounts Are Not Your Typical Investors
  • Tax Shelters: Exotic or Just Plain Illegal?

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Wharton on Senior Leadership
Wharton on Senior Leadership

Volume 1: Enterprise Leadership

  • Henning Kagermann: Balancing Change and Stability in the Evolution of SAP's Enterprise Software Platform
  • ICICI's K.V. Kamath Shapes a Business Plan in Rural India's Uncertain Financial Terrain
  • The World Economic Forum: A Call To Exercise Global Leadership, Not Just Self Interest
  • Hu Xiongqing, President of Akiyama International, on How To Manage a Multinational Company
  • Navigating the “Grey Areas” of Business Management: An Interview With Mai Boliang, CEO of China International Marine Containers Co.
  • What Latin America Needs To Do to Be More Competitive in Global Markets

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Volume 2: Strategic Management

  • Sustaining Corporate Growth Requires “Big I” and “small i” Innovation
  • Michael Porter Asks and Answers: Why Do Good Managers Set Bad Strategies?
  • Forging a Steel Giant: Mittal’s Bid for Arcelor
  • Indian Companies Are on an Acquisition Spree: Their Target? U.S. Firms
  • Scrambling for Control of Hutch Essar—and a Piece of India’s Mobile Phone Market

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Wharton on Learning Leadership
Wharton on Learning Leadership

Volume 1: Creating a Learning Environment

  • Workplace Loyalties Change, but the Value of Mentoring Doesn't
  • Do Talk to Strangers: Encouraging Performative Ties To Create Competitive Advantage
  • Is Your Goal To Get to the Top? Try Playing "Total Football"
  • The Social Network Benefit: Losing an Employee Doesn't Have To Mean Losing Knowledge
  • Is Your HR Department Friend or Foe? It Depends on Who's Asking the Question

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Volume 2: Leadership and Knowledge Management

  • Leading for the Next Act: Why CEOs Must Evolve or Step Aside
  • Steve Ballmer Speaks Passionately About Microsoft, Leadership...and Passion
  • To Marshall Goldsmith: Thank You for Writing This Book (and We're Not Sucking Up)
  • Wipro: Leadership in the Midst of Rapid Growth
  • Michael Porter Asks and Answers: Why Do Good Managers Set Bad Strategies?

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