Jacob Levitt
Campus: Bloomington
Biography
Jacob S. Levitt is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Prior
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Jacob S. Levitt is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Prior to joining Indiana, he earned his PhD in Organizational Behavior at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Jacob is a field-oriented, quantitative researcher who studies how leader and team emotions impact well-being and performance over time. His work has been published in leading management outlets such as Organization Science and Harvard Business Review.
As a teacher, Jacob teaches Undergraduate, MBA, and Executive Education audiences on a range of different topics from leadership and teamwork, culture, emotions and emotional intelligence, negotiations, and introductory courses on organizational behavior and psychology.
In addition to his work as a researcher and teacher, he has provided consulting services to a number of different teams and organizations including over 30 NCAA D1 sports teams, a professional sports team, several large healthcare and insurance companies and multiple different Fortune 500 organizations in the consumer and luxury goods space. Prior to starting his PhD and pursuing a career in academia he worked in Washington DC for Capital One focusing on data analytics and machine learning.
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Areas of Expertise
Emotions in the workplace, leader and team emotions, emotional culture, well-being
Academic Degrees
- Ph.D., Management (Organizational Behavior), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- M.S., Management (Organizational Behavior), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
Selected Publications
Edited on December 5, 2025
