11 of Our Favorite Stories About Careers and Success From 2024

Stanford GSB professors who study and teach negotiation talk about understanding, planning, and navigating successful dealmaking. As Professor Margaret Neale puts it, “The goal of a negotiation is not to get a deal. The goal is to get a good deal.”

Experiments by organizational behavior professor Nir Halevy show that “humorbragging” — coupling self-confidence with a little humor can make job seekers stand out. “If you could just add one line to your CV and improve your chances, you should do it,” he says.

Laurel Holman of the Stanford Graduate School of Business’ Career Management Center, shares three networking tips anyone can use (including a really helpful LinkedIn trick).

Professors Robert I. Sutton and Huggy Rao present some quick advice for overcoming workplace friction — the “forces that make it harder, slower, more complicated, or downright impossible to get things done.”

In this video, lecturer Matt Abrahams offers tools you can use the next time you need to run a meeting, moderate a panel, or broker an important conversation.

Gossip is a ubiquitous part of life. And it’s not all bad. Professor Michele Gelfand finds that talking about other people helps spread useful information about their reputation.

A study on the origin of prescient ideas finds that they are more likely to emerge from the periphery of organizations. “People tend to focus on brilliant individuals,” says Amir Goldberg, a professor of organizational behavior. “This suggests that where you sit matters at least as much as who you are.”

In this episode of Grit & Growth, Collins Dobbs, an instructor for Interpersonal Dynamics, talks about how phenomenal leaders can navigate tough conversations, develop real connections, and create a culture where people feel safe to offer real feedback.

As she retired following 38 seasons as Stanford’s women’s basketball coach, Tara VanDerveer stooped by View From The Top to talk about her career as the all-time winningest coach in the history of college hoops.

“Culture is all around us, but at the same time, it feels out of reach for a lot of people,” says Professor Jennifer Eberhardt. She and her colleagues offer ways leaders can really change the way things are done inside their organizations.