Creating an AI-Ready Workforce
Professor Stephan Meier and Todd Jick reveal how managers can set up employees for success in the new world of work.
Professor Stephan Meier and Todd Jick reveal how managers can set up employees for success in the new world of work.
The potential for AI to enhance workplaces is vast—as long as we remember the humans that make this enhancement fully possible.
New research from Professor Adina Sterling finds that employees leave jobs at similar rates but for different reasons.
The number of younger bosses is rising thanks to a booming technology industry and an aging workforce. CBS Professor Joel Brockner has discovered what makes older employees more accepting of their younger supervisors.
New research from Professor Vanessa Burbano finds that social impact activities can be the key to retaining employees.
Professor Brockner earned a B.A. in psychology from SUNY-Stony Brook and a Ph.D. in social/personality psychology from Tufts University. Since that time, he has taught at Middlebury College, SUNY College at Brockport, Tufts University, and the University of Arizona prior to joining the faculty at Columbia Business School in 1984.
Vanessa Burbano is the Donald C. Waite III Associate Professor of Social Enterprise in the strategy area at Columbia Business School.
Professor Jick is a leading expert in Leadership and Organizational Change. He has had a long career of both academic and consulting work in this field. In 2020, he became the Reuben Mark Faculty Director of Organizational Character and Leadership. He has an MS and PhD from Cornell in Organizational Behavior. He was a professor at the Harvard Business School for 10 years and a visiting professor, organizational behavior-human resource management at INSEAD and London Business School.
Costis Maglaras is the 16th Dean of Columbia Business School, and the David and Lyn Silfen Professor of Business at Columbia University. Costis received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1990, and his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1991 and 1998, respectively. He joined Columbia Business School in 1998, when he joined the Decision, Risk and Operations Division.
Stephan Meier is currently the chair of the Management Division and the James P. Gorman Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Zurich, was previously a senior economist at the Center for Behavioral Economics and Decision-Making at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and taught courses on strategic interactions and economic policy at Harvard University and the University of Zurich. His research interest is in behavioral strategy.
Adina D. Sterling joined Columbia Business School in 2023 as the Katherine Phillips Associate Professor of Business in the Management Division. Adina’s research advances an understanding of how inequality persists in labor markets and workplaces, despite the efforts of many leaders to create fair and equitable organizations. In particular, her work demonstrates the various ways labor markets and hiring processes lead societal inequalities to be maintained and reinforced.
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