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Research: Using a Smartphone After 9 pm Leaves Workers Disengaged

Harvard Business Review

Even small amounts of blue light inhibit the sleep-promoting chemical melatonin, meaning that the displays of smartphones are capable of producing this effect. These studies will be published in detail in the research journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes later this year.).

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Can GM Make it Safe for Employees to Speak Up?

Harvard Business Review

But that’s exactly why it would be a mistake to look past organizational behavior and culture at GM: It is utterly inevitable that things will go wrong, according to Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson. ” (Consider: there are bugs in your smartphone, too – another complex device – but they won’t kill you.).