IS ENGLISH IMPORTANT FOR YOU AND YOUR CAREER?

101 countries. Nearly 340 million native speakers. Over 1/3 of the world's population understand the language. PORTAL’s Business English club works for developers, creative directors, producers, product managers, entrepreneurs, CEOs, freelancers, non-profit leaders. It works for people in design, finance, HR, marketing, sales, management and every other part...

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YOUNG WOMEN ARE STILL LESS LIKELY TO NEGOTIATE A JOB OFFER. WHY?

Nearly a decade ago, Carnegie Mellon University researchers surveyed a group of graduating college students and found just 7 percent of women said they'd tried to negotiate their initial job offers, compared to a whopping 57 percent of men. CONTINUE READING ...

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HOW GM USES SOCIAL MEDIA TO IMPROVE CARS AND CUSTOMER SERVICE

In 1933, General Motors President and CEO Alfred Sloan established the automobile industry’s first full-time consumer research department under the direction of Henry “Buck” Weaver, a pioneer in market-based decision making. Weaver’s staff sent three million mailings a year to GM and non-GM customers, achieving a remarkable 25%...

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ECONOMIC MODELS SAY WE MAKE RATIONAL CHOICES. DO WE?

For years, economists and psychologists have argued about whether the standard model that economists use to explain how people make decisions is correct. It says that people make rational choices: they weigh all the options against a well-defined set of preferences to choose the one which makes them happiest or...

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WHAT THE DALAI LAMA TAUGHT DANIEL GOLEMAN ABOUT EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Two decades before Daniel Goleman first wrote about emotional intelligence in the pages of HBR, he met his holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at Amherst College, who mentioned to the young science journalist for the New York Times that he was interested in meeting with scientists. Thus began a long, rich friendship as...

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