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- 28 Oct 2021
- News
The Toxic Effects of Branding Your Workplace a “Family”
- January 2014 (Revised February 2014)
- Teaching Note
Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety In Bangladesh (A) and (B)
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
On April 24, 2013 the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. Over 1,100 people were killed in the worst industrial accident since the Union Carbide plant gas leak in Bhopal, India. Most of the victims worked for garment factories,...
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- 12 Sep 2018
- News
Celebrating A Landmark Book on Gender in the Workplace
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
4 Strategies for Building a Hybrid Workplace that Works
- Article
Exposure to Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account for Inequality in Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups
By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
The existence of important socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with different...
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Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios. "Exposure to Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account for Inequality in Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups." Health Affairs 34, no. 10 (October 2015): 1761–1768.
- 27 Sep 2016
- News
How Men & Women See the Workplace Differently
- 19 Apr 2023
- News
How to Turn Around a Toxic Workplace Culture
- 12 Dec 2022
- News
What It Takes to Be a Fair-Pay Workplace
- 21 Jan 2022
- News
How Leaders Can Build Connection in a Disconnected Workplace
- 23 Jul 2020
- News
How to Create a Workplace that Actually Inspires Passion
- Article
The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States
By: Joel Goh, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Stefanos A. Zenios
Even though epidemiological evidence links specific workplace stressors to health outcomes, the aggregate contribution of these factors to overall mortality and health spending in the United States is not known. In this paper, we build a model to estimate the excess...
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Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer, and Stefanos A. Zenios. "The Relationship Between Workplace Stressors and Mortality and Health Costs in the United States." Management Science 62, no. 2 (February 2016): 608–628.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Should Workplace Programs Be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship
By: Jason Sandvik, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert and Christopher Stanton
In a field experiment, we find large differences in productivity treatment effects between voluntary and mandatory workplace mentorship programs. A significant portion of this difference is due to the best employees opting into the program when it is voluntary and...
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Keywords:
Mentoring;
Mentorship Programs;
Randomized Controlled Trial;
Employees;
Relationships;
Programs;
Performance
Sandvik, Jason, Richard Saouma, Nathan Seegert, and Christopher Stanton. "Should Workplace Programs Be Voluntary or Mandatory? Evidence from a Field Experiment on Mentorship." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29148, August 2021. (Revised October 2023.)
- 05 May 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace
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Re: John A. Quelch
- 16 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
To support black employees, business leaders must challenge biases and help employees be themselves, according to a new book co-edited by Anthony J. Mayo, Laura Morgan Roberts, and David A. Thomas. When Barack Obama was elected president in 2008, some saw it as proof...
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All Industries
- 30 Oct 2021
- News
How Men and Women Treat Deadlines in the Workplace Differently
- 25 Sep 2019
- Podcast
"Been” there, learned that: Immersive workplace training with virtual reality
What do sales clerks have in common with NFL quarterbacks? Apart from a competitive nature, both can benefit from VR training. Former Stanford football player Derek Belch drew on his athletic background and a Master’s in VR to deliver the virtual goods via STRIVR, the...
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