Predicting the Success of New Ideas

For many buy-and-hold investors out there just getting started, knowing how to understand businesses better is one of the first skills to develop. One term that the financial media world has developed for business strengths is economic moat: that “it factor” that keeps its compet ...  Show more

Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Jon Quast debate whether the AI boom is becoming a bubble and what could eventually cause it to burst. They also look at how investors can position portfolios when AI valuations look stretched and massive spending continues. Then, the team breaks d ...  Show more

Last week, you heard the latest thinking from Adam Grant, organizational psychologist extraordinaire, about his newest book. This week, we dive into the archives for a classic.We have a lot of ideas about what leads to our most creative thoughts. Today, Adam and Modupe tell us wh ...  Show more

How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies "originals": thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals -- including embracing failure. "The g ...  Show more

As we grapple with pandemic-charged change in business and as a society, we’ve become more fractured, more divisive, and more vulnerable. Adam Grant, best-selling author and professor at the Wharton School, argues that recognizing what we don't know is the key step on the road to ...  Show more

Work has to suck, you have to be selfish to get ahead, and you can’t become more original, these are just some of the myths that Adam Grant busts and replaces with an upgraded way to see the world. Adam Grant is Professor of Management and Psychology at the Wharton School of the ...  Show more