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December 24, 2019
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Why It's So Hard to Change People's Commuting Behavior

By: Ariella S. Kristal and A. V. Whillans

Car commuters report higher levels of stress and lower job satisfaction compared to train commuters—in large part because car commuting can involve driving in traffic and navigating tense road situations. Some employers are trying to get involved and reduce car... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Motivating People; Time And Wellbeing; Time Stress; Commuting; Behavior; Change; Motivation and Incentives

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September 2019
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Legal Time Case – Video Short 2

By: Christine L Exley, Katherine B. Coffman and Joshua Schwartzstein

Legal Time is a two-party dynamic negotiation simulation. Students take the role of either the prosecution or the defense in a case that centers on a client who has been accused of spear-heading a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. This conflict-resolution scenario gives... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Resolution; Time Stress; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Fairness; Learning

August 2019
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Legal Time Case

By: Christine L. Exley, Katherine B. Coffman and Joshua Schwartzstein

Legal Time is a two-party dynamic negotiation simulation. Students take the role of either the prosecution or the defense in a case that centers on a client who has been accused of spear-heading a conspiracy to commit wire fraud. This conflict-resolution scenario gives... View Details

Keywords: Conflict Resolution; Time Stress; Negotiation; Conflict and Resolution; Fairness; Learning

2020
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Worry at Work: How Organizational Culture Promotes Anxiety

By: Jeremy A. Yip, Emma E. Levine, Alison Wood Brooks and Maurice E. Schweitzer

Organizational culture profoundly influences how employees think and behave. Established research suggests that the content, intensity, consensus, and fit of cultural norms act as a social control system for attitudes and behavior. We adopt the norms model of... View Details

Keywords: Anxiety; Norms; Stress; Culture; Tightness-looseness; Curvilinear; Organizational Culture; Emotions; Performance

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September 22, 2020
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Amazon's AI Is Learning New Rules to Win for the Holidays: With Stressed Supply Chains and Changing Consumer Behaviors, the Holidays Are Likely to Accelerate Amazon's Advantage

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Niall Murphy

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November 2014 (Revised March 2016)
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Mental Health and the American Workplace

By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Mental illness has been described as an epidemic affecting nearly a quarter of all Americans in their lifetimes, often during their most productive working years. Managers who can design organizations that maximize mental health can minimize these risks and boost... View Details

Keywords: Public Health; Productivity; Competitiveness; Stress Management; Depression; Absenteeism; Presenteeism; Work Culture; Business or Company Management; Work-Life Balance; Performance Productivity; Organizational Culture; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; United States

01 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

14 Mar 2018
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Feeling Stressed? Try Sniffing Your Romantic Partner's Shirt

scent of a romantic partner can lower psychological and physiological stress levels, even when that partner isn’t physically present. Moreover, the scent of a stranger increases stress levels, according to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive

Commutes are stressful partly because people are unsure how long the trip will take, and if bad traffic makes them late for meetings, they start the workday feeling rushed and on edge. “You can’t adapt to commuting because it’s entirely... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Clinical Research

Dr. Simpson has been a consulting statistician for clinical research, especially in studies of post-traumatic stress disorder. Most recently, he has been involved in a clinical trial comparing a pharmacological treatment and an exposure-based psychological treatment... View Details

13 Aug 2020
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6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

as their mental well-being—a forthcoming article in American Psychologist examines current organizational psychology research to help business leaders manage COVID-related fallout in the workplace and develop solutions to ease the stress... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Feb 2021
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Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

kept the practices in place that helped them control what could be controlled—exercise, diet, personal habits, and routines. None of these CEOs reported increased stress in the second half of the year. Three reported a decrease, while... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

October 1993
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Note on Developing Start-Up Strategies

Provides students with a workable framework for analyzing new ventures. Stresses the importance of matching analytical tasks to the type of venture contemplated. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Business Startups

October 2023
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What Leaders Need to Know about Mental Health

By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, Liana Groysberg, Natalia Groysberg and Abhijit Naik

This paper will provide an overview of the nature of anxiety and depression, the particular vulnerabilities and stresses of CEOs, and suggestions for managing mental health in the workplace. View Details

Keywords: CEO; Mental Health; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Leadership; Well-being

26 Nov 2012
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New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

Although much of the United States still struggles to recover from the 2008 economic crisis, the online world defies that bleak economic picture—the Internet continues to put a growing number of Americans to work. “In a very flat economy the Internet ecosystem has... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

June 2013
Article

Unconscious Thought Reduces Intrusion Development: A Replication and Extension

By: Julie Krans, Dorte Janecko and Maarten W. Bos

Background and Objectives: Intrusive images after a traumatic event, a hallmark feature of post-traumatic stress disorder, are suggested to develop because the trauma memory is disorganized and not integrated into autobiographical memory. Unconscious Thought... View Details

Keywords: Health Disorders; Cognition and Thinking

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August 2015 (Revised February 2017)
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The Whys and Hows of Feedback

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Performance feedback is crucial to a career in the information-rich global economy. However, feedback is psychologically stressful to both give, and hear. This teaching note explains why feedback is both valuable and difficult, and goes on to summarize research on... View Details

Keywords: Feedback; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture

August 1998
Case

General Motors Corporation (C), The : 1990-1992

By: Peter Tufano

The third in a four-part series, this case details the financial policies and practices at General Motors from 1990 to 1996. This part describes the firm's financial responses to the business stresses it faced in the 1992 time period. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Finance; Auto Industry; United States

August 1992 (Revised June 1993)
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Euro Disney: The First 100 Days

By: Gary W. Loveman and Leonard A. Schlesinger

The Walt Disney Co. theme parks historically have thrived on the basis of a formula stressing excellent customer service and a magnificent physical environment. The formula has proven successful in Japan, as well as the United States. With the controversial opening of... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Japan; France; United States