Organizational Behavior

U.S. Government Regulators May Be Favoring Their Future Private-Sector Employers

Ivana V. Katic

How does the “revolving door” between government and industry benefit firms? A new study co-authored by Yale SOM’s Ivana Katic finds that firms see a smoother regulatory process in the months before they hire a former regulator, suggesting that they may find favor via the promise of future employment.

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Podcast

Learning through Experience

How can we learn from the experience we have to create a future that we want? This is the realm that much of Dr. Heidi Brooks’s work explores. As we navigate through life, she invites us to cultivate the capacity to learn through experience, and to apply the wisdom gained to co-create a future that is worth fighting for.

In season one of the Learning through Experience Podcast, Dr. Heidi Brooks focused on one of the most impactful ways to learn through experience: learning with mentors. She spoke with some of her mentors and they reflected on what brought them to where they are today in their own work, life, and play.

But in a podcast that proposes that learning can not only happen through conventional exposure to concepts and theories but also through what we experience in life, this second season is all about the HOW.

How do we learn through our own experience?

Dr. Heidi Brooks talks to artists, authors, professors, and even yoga instructors about four practices you can lean on to learn through experience. These four practices are: How to challenge your perspective, how to stretch yourself and build range, how to direct your own learning, and finally, the importance of reflection.

I hope you follow along and join us for season two of Learning Through Experience.

All Episodes

  • Three Questions: Prof. James Baron on Why Performance Reviews Aren’t Working 

    James N. Baron

    We asked Yale SOM’s James Baron about the research on the effectiveness of annual reviews and what a better method might look like.

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  • For U.S. Army, Improving Mental Health Care Meant Breaking Down Barriers Between Teams

    Julia DiBenigno

    The study suggests that for many organizations, assigning professionals from one team as points of contact to members of another—while they still maintain close ties to their own peers—may help resolve conflicts.

    Soldiers boarding a transport plane

  • Three Questions: Prof. James Baron on Amazon’s New Minimum Wage

    James N. Baron

    We asked Prof. James Baron, an expert in human resources and labor markets, what Amazon’s $15 minimum wage would mean for workers there and at other companies.

    An employee at an Amazon fulfillment center in Robbinsville, New Jersey. Photo: Bess Adler/Bloomberg via Getty Images.

  • Three Questions: Prof. Marissa King on the Cost of Loneliness

    Marissa D. King

    There is increasing evidence that isolation has a powerful negative effect on health and productivity. We asked Yale SOM’s Marissa King, an expert on social networks, how we can reinforce the connections that help sustain us.

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  • The Agony and Ecstasy of the Gig Economy

    Amy Wrzesniewski

    Should the so-called gig economy be called the roller coaster economy? Yale SOM's Amy Wrzesniewski, an expert in how we experience work, investigated the lives of independent workers and found that they experience dramatic emotional highs and lows.

  • Can Better Teamwork Save Lives?

    Marissa D. King

    By gathering and analyzing real-time data about how team members interact, researchers investigated whether a care coordinator can improve outcomes—and in the process, learned just how delicate team dynamics can be.

  • Three Questions: Prof. Marissa King on How the Opioid Epidemic Spreads

    Marissa D. King

    We asked Yale SOM’s Marissa King, an expert in social networks who has studied the spread of drug addiction, what is driving the opioid crisis and how it can be addressed.

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  • Do Organizations Implement the Best Crowdsourced Ideas?

    Linus Dahlander

    Many companies use crowdsourcing in search of new ideas. But in a video interview for ESMT’s Knowledge series, Professor Linus Dahlander says that organizations seeking crowdsourced ideas end up sticking with the most familiar ones.

  • Can Low-Hanging Fruit Drive Earnings Growth?

    Jeremy Eden Terri Long

    Jeremy Eden ’86 and Terri Long, co-CEOs of consulting firm Harvest Earnings, argue that organizations ignore ways to significantly grow earnings because of “behaviors that limit what we know and how we think.” Their solution starts with asking lots of questions.

  • How Do Leaders Advance Sustainability in Complex Organizations?

    Marian R. Chertow Shawn Heath Rich Kidd Manuel Gomez Pena

    Sustainability leaders often have to interact with a wide range of stakeholders with varied interests and incentives. They need to figure out the best way to engage, communicate, prioritize, and implement—in other words, to persuade. According to a panel of sustainability executives, that can mean sidestepping the language and baggage of sustainability entirely.