
According to Vanity Fair's David Margolick, the litigation was "mutually assured destruction" for everyone involved, and with respect to Gruenfeld, he wrote: "How does it look for someone who built her career analyzing the abusiveness (she dubbed it “disinhibition”) of the powerful, and who, until a month before she became romantically entangled with the dean, was the G.S.B. 2 quotes from Deborah Gruenfeld: Smart power.must take into account not just the size of ones weapons arsenal or ones willingness to use brute force. Phills, who had been another professor at the business school Phills alleged his firing was driven by the affair that Gruenfeld was having with the dean of the business school, Garth Saloner, apparently with the knowledge of the Stanford's Provost, John Etchemendy. In 2015, Poets & Quants, a blog that covers MBA programs around the world, made public a wrongful termination suit filed by Gruenfeld's estranged husband, James A. Together with Dacher Keltner of the University of California, Berkeley, and Cameron Anderson also at Berkeley, Gruenfeld has developed a theory of power that aims to present an integrative account of the effects of power on human behaviour, suggesting that the acquisition of power has a disinhibiting effect regarding the social consequences of exercising it. Supreme Court decisions took into consideration both the justices' status in their group as well as their ideological preferences, demonstrating that as justices gained power on the court or entered into majority coalitions their written opinions tended to become less complex and nuanced. Supreme Court decisions, were awarded prizes by the American Psychological Association and the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. Her doctoral research on status and integrative complexity in decision-making groups, in part examining U.S. Gruenfeld was a graduate student of Robert S.
