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A round-up of Penn mentions in local, national, and international media.
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Katherine Klein of the Wharton School weighed in on how to avoid hiring toxic supervisors in the workplace. “One of the things we know about hiring is that the standard unstructured interview is not a good predictor of future performance,” she says. “Someone in a high-level position probably knows how to behave quite well in an interview for a short period of time.”
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Blair Mannix of the Wharton School spoke about the business school’s supportive environment. “People on the outside of the community and culture think it’s a competitive environment, but if you speak to anyone who’s a member of it, it’s extremely collaborative,” she said.
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Emily Hund, a doctoral candidate in the Annenberg School for Communication, discussed retailers’ attempts harness the power of influencers to attract customers. The approach, she said, “seems like a new height in the social media-fashion feedback loop.”
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The Annenberg School for Communication’s Sandra González-Bailón and Ph.D. candidate Ashley E. Gorham wrote that the movement to delete Facebook profiles to protest privacy violations is self-defeating. The authors say that a more effective option would be using the site as a tool to deliver a collective demand for democratization.
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Kartik Hosanagar of the Wharton School is quoted about Ola as a transportation competitor in India.
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Daniel Hopkins of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on researching attitudes towards immigrants.
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Victor Mair of the School of Arts and Sciences comments on the Chinese government’s attempts to improve the English translations used to describe Chinese cuisine.
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John Paul MacDuffie of the Wharton School comments on the history of innovation.
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Peter Cappelli of the Wharton School comments on IBM and employees working remotely.
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An excerpt from Originals by Adam Grant of the Wharton School expresses concern about why grading on a curve is problematic.