Publications

20 Jan 2014
News

After Your "Daddy Days" End

Keywords: work-life balance; paternity leave; flex time

31 Jan 2017
News

How Your Organization Can Support Working Parents

Keywords: work-life balance; human resources; employee recruitment

10 Mar 2014
News

Mindful Leaders for the C-Suite

Keywords: meditation; mindfulness; journaling; work-life balance; prayer

Spring 2013
Comment

Comment on 'The Minimum Balance at Risk: A Proposal to Mitigate the Systemic Risks Posed by Money Market Funds'

By: Samuel G. Hanson

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24 Mar 2014
News

Don't Fear the Reaper

Keywords: succession planning; work/life balance; death; mortality

02 Feb 2015
News

Wall Street Is Not Silicon Valley

Keywords: private equity; entrepreneurship; Wall Street; work-life balance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

Research Summary

Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders

By: Robert Simons

This project studies the life choices made by a variety of people who have left a lasting legacy. Using biographical data, we are examining the choices that high-impact individuals faced in their lives and the paths they chose to follow. The leaders we study come... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Personal Characteristics; Work-life Balance; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Success

Summer 2012
Article

Epistemic Contests and the Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: The Brazil–USA Cotton Dispute and the Incremental Balancing of Interests

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

The World Trade Organization (WTO) features prominently in studies of international institutions, often cast either as a tool of rich-world domination over the poorer South or as a neutral mediator facilitating a tariff-free world of economic prosperity. This article... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Trade; Conflict and Resolution; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States

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28 Jul 2021
News

Squarely in Their Corner

Amrita Ahuja (MBA 2007) witnessed the hard work and challenges involved in running a small business: Her first job was working as a summer camp day counselor at her parents’ daycare center in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Appointed CFO of Square, Inc. in 2018, Ahuja says... View Details

Keywords: mentorship; entrepreneurship; fintech; career; work-life balance; Finance

13 Feb 2014
News

Success Factors Behind an International Assignment

Keywords: international assignments; work/life balance; career planning

01 Jun 2023
News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

01 Mar 2023
News

Action Plan: Casting Call

Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing

May 2017
Case

ATH Technologies: Making the Numbers

By: Robert Simons and Jennifer Packard

An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth, 3) push to profitability, 4) relocation process, and 5) takeover by new management. At each stage, students must... View Details

Keywords: Balancing Innovation And Control; Performance Evaluation; Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Profit; Geographic Location; Governance Controls; Innovation and Invention; Management Succession; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

13 Jun 2018
News

TEDx Talk

Keywords: transportation; urban development; work-life balance; real estate; housing; Real Estate

30 Mar 2015
News

The Power of the Cohort

Keywords: work-life balance; employee recruitment; internships; women's issues; military; cohorts

August 2019
Case

Simón Cohen at Henco: Sustaining 'High Performance, Happy People'

By: Francesca Gino, Jeff Steiner, Arianna Camacho and Paul Green

Simón Cohen—Founder of Henco Logistics—transformed a small Mexican logistics company into a major player within the industry. Cohen credits the firm’s focus on employee happiness as the key ingredient to its success, an approach he developed following a personal... View Details

Keywords: Work/life Balance; Growth Strategy; Corporate Culture; Motivation; Values; Authentic Leadership Development; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Values and Beliefs; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry

March 2015 (Revised February 2017)
Case

Shanghai: GDP Apostasy

By: George Serafeim

Balancing economic growth alongside environmental sustainability and social inclusion was becoming increasingly important in China. The case describes Shanghai's decision to abandon growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as its primary metric of measuring success.... View Details

Keywords: China; Gdp; Measurement; Measurement Problems; Accountability; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Strategy Execution; Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Map; Macroeconomics; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Accountability; Accounting; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Corporate Governance; Shanghai