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Get It Done: Two Techniques to Fast-track Your Goals

Forget willpower. In this Nano Tool for Leaders from Wharton Executive Education, Wharton’s Katy Milkman offers insight into how short-term gratification can work for your team.

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Why Identity Matters When Asking for Career Help

When underrepresented workers are looking for career support, they are more likely to get it if they explicitly state their demographic identity, according to new Wharton research.

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We’re Good at Motivating Others, but What About Ourselves?

Wharton’s Angela Duckworth talks to Ayelet Fishbach, author of the new book 'Get It Done,' which offers a framework for setting and attaining goals.

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Giving Feedback That Works: Plant the Seeds of Confidence

In this Nano Tool for Leaders from Wharton Executive Education, Wharton’s Katy Milkman shares three action steps that can help you unleash your team’s potential by building their confidence.

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How Science Can Help You Keep Your Fitness Goal

Wharton’s Katy Milkman shares insights from a new megastudy on exercise that reveals the best ways to change behavior at scale.

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One Person, Many Needs: How Customer Centricity Has Changed

Wharton faculty offer advice on how companies can keep up with the complex demands of consumers by adopting a modern approach to customer lifetime value.

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How to Harness the Power of Belonging

Wharton’s Katy Milkman interviews New York University professor Jay Van Bavel about his new book, ‘The Power of Us,’ which explores how group affiliations shape our identity and can influence...

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The Power of Nudges: Maya Shankar on Changing People’s Minds

Wharton’s Katy Milkman talks to behavioral scientist Maya Shankar about her career, which has taken her from the White House to her current role as senior director of behavioral economics at Google,...

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Want to Get Unstuck? How Science Can Help

Wharton’s Katy Milkman shares insights from her new book, 'How to Change,' which offers science-based strategies for creating lasting, effective change.

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What Will Persuade People to Take a Vaccine?

Behavioral scientists at Wharton and Penn are studying the best communication strategies that nudge people into getting vaccinated for the flu, with implications for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Making Good Decisions: A Toolkit

Wharton’s Katy Milkman talks with author Annie Duke about her new book that provides tools for readers who want to make smart decisions in any situation.

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Too Much of a Good Thing? The Perils of Overconfidence

Wharton’s Katherine Milkman talks with Don Moore from the University of California, Berkeley, about his new book 'Perfectly Confident' and what happens when our confidence level doesn’t match up with...

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What Poker Can Teach Us about Making the World a Better Place

Wharton’s Katherine Milkman talks with psychologist Maria Konnikova about her new book, ‘The Biggest Bluff,’ and how we can make decisions in an environment in which we have very little control.

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When It Comes to Advice, It’s Better to Give Than Receive

New research by Wharton’s Behavior Change for Good Initiative shows that while offering advice benefits the receiver, it also boosts the giver’s self-confidence.

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Does Diversity Training Really Work?

New research from Wharton examines whether online diversity training really changes the behaviors and attitudes of employees.

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Are You a ‘Good-ish’ Person? How to Push Past Your Biases

In a new book, psychologist Dolly Chugh shows how taking deep stock of our unconscious biases can lead to enlightenment.

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Why Top Performers Quit When the Going Gets Tough

When facing adversity, favorites are more likely to walk away than underdogs, new Wharton research finds. The reason: potential embarrassment over not meeting expectations.

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Is It Possible to Change Bad Behavior – Permanently?

What if a simple nudge could help you make better decisions? A new large-scale experiment headed by two Penn researchers aims to help people develop better exercise habits.

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It’s All About Timing: How Nonprofits Can Increase Charitable Donations

New Wharton research shows that timing is the key to maximizing donations, particularly from people with an existing connection to an organization.

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Can Firms Help Employees Make Better Retirement Choices?

Many employers purposely set low default rates for employee retirement savings -- but their worries about increasing them are largely unfounded, Wharton research shows.

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